Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 14, 2006 3:31 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
On the first floor, product is kept above and opposing the rolling conveyer. The product is grouped by frequency of purchase, not by type of product, so you will see items like motherboards on all three floors, not all grouped together in one area.
Beneath every product is a numerical readout as well as a red "Confirm" button:
When a tub rolls by product that it needs the system stops the tub and starts blinking the confirm button beneath the product in the immediate area that needs to be put in the tub. The display next to the confirm button will give the closest worker a readout of how many of that item are needed.
Next to every stopped tub there is a similar button and readout combination, this time telling you how many of that product have to be put in the tub. You may have two tubs roll by that both require the same motherboard, so while the counter by the motherboards will tell you that you need two, the displays by the two tubs will keep you from placing too many of the wrong item in one tub.
Once everything is filled at this stop there's one last confirm button to hit and then the tubs move along.
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jamesbond007 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Thanks Anand and NewEgg for the great pics and tour! As a long-time NewEgg customer, it was very intriguing to read the article and gaze at the pictures because I've always wondered how a place like that worked. =)Cheers!
~Travis W.
flexy - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
this looks sooooooooooooooo much like my f****g work - except that the items at newegg are approx. 10000000 times more interesting than what we deal with every day ;)bbomb - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
I worked on an aembly line putting together boxes for vent hoods to go in. That was the longest fucking week of my life. I wonder why the vent hood people didnt have the box-putter-together machine.PandaBear - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
The last company I worked for used to be part of Mitsubishi, and you would be surprised how much cheaper our shipping was compare to you going to Kinko's yourself, it was almost 1/2 off.I would imagine Newegg got a deal with UPS that makes it much cheaper than FedEx Ground.
Reflex - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Been a customer of theirs for years, pretty much since Egghead went under(remember them?). Service has always been great and they are the first place I reccomend to techs and resellers. Sure beats the old days of having to have a tax ID and account with a distributer.Powermoloch - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Thanks for the article Anand...really appreciate it. I didn't expect the warehouse to look like that !cw42 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
pics coulda been better, but AWESOME ARTICLE.Thanks newegg.
bob661 - Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - link
Pics looked good to me.StevenYoo - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
nice read.man, part of me really wants to win that CPU!
but the other part of me doesn't so I don't have to buy a new mobo, etc.
NeonAura - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - link
Contest for AMD X2s.. excellent :)And, there shouldn't be many entries outside of Anandtech, because the contest entry isn't open for a long time and because the link's broken. Noobs won't get it :)