Acronyms
ACES
Amazon Customer Excellence System
This is the largest savings bucket for PSO in 2024 according to the GCF ACES 2024 OP1.
OB Transportation
Now standard across most sortable ship docks, this product's proof of concept was largely built using supplies purchased at Lowe's.
Directed Palletize
EWR4
This is the speed (in m/s) that all Gen9 flat sorters ran at prior to 2020.
1.8 m/s
Material Exception Path
A key BTL initiative in 2021, this product boasted a $36MM annualized opportunity and was described in our QBR as "Staging is the primary bottleneck of the dock in terms of sort points growth and Post-SLAM DEA management."
Layout Services: Digital Twin
This project aimed to make flats induct a directed path by adding a Cognex and thin client at induct stations.
Flats Virtual Touchpoint (or Flats Induct Eye)
DEN3
ARS Gen9
This wildly successful, innovative, and patent-approved attachment reduced flat sorter no reads and failed to diverts and was originally made from amazon air inserts.
Bellow guards
COSSI
Chute Optimization Service, Single Injection
Headcount of PSO when GCF ACES was first launched in March 2021.
11
Before the migration to Quicksight, this was used to deep dive defects such as scan compliance and rolled freight.
Kibana
PAE2
ARS Gen11
This Y-Sorter FC caused a stir in 2020 when they had over 65 shuttles of problem solve intercept heading into black Friday.
CLE2
STARS
Shipment Tracking and Re-Planning System
The 2021 OP2 savings and avoidance for PSO (within $10MM).
$261MM
Before COSMIC, this PDF report was sent to sites to guide flat sorter allocations.
Flat Sorter Optimization Report
FTW5
USNS - Gen6
2022 Gen11 Large FCs have this many AR chutes (within 6)
468
UCAP
Upgrade Cost Aware Picking
In 2020, ARS Ship Dock rates were created based on the assumption that we would palletize this percent of volume off the ship sorter (within 2%).
64%
In Vista, a fluid lane is represented by this color.
Purple
BFL2
TSSL - AR Dock
Within AWCS, this message is what is sent from AWCS to the PLC containing the sortation information.
S02 Message