Links to short news item and videos offer details of WalMart’s plans to use drones in its warehouses to count inventory. As seen in the first video, a drone can be moved up and down an aisle packed nearly to the ceiling with boxes, taking dozens of images per second to track inventory. These drones accomplish in as little as a day what took WalMart employees about a month. The last two videos offers a glimpse about Amazon’s initiatives in warehouse automation from robots to flying warehouse for drone delivery, which effectively puts WalMart and other competitors on notice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1qtwoPde0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6DIFpaoI6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XhmSWCvFU
Critically analyze the information contained in news articles. Then write well-thought out answers (about 1-3 pages in length, at least 600 words) to questions listed below:
Why are the drones a potentially important inventory management tool in warehouses?
What is Amazon doing to automate its warehouses?
Do these initiatives meaningfully improve delivery time and service experience of Amazon’s customers or will these be just pipe dreams?
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