Amazon’s Kiva Robots Vs Alibaba’s Quicktron Robots – Battle of Warehouse

Amazon and Alibaba robots continue to improve automation and increase competition in ecommerce.  Robots and artificial intelligence will push us closer and closer to an autonomous supply chain.

Huge assortment of Amazon and Alibaba blogs.

• The Alibaba Supply Chain.
• The Amazon Supply Chain.

Digital Supply Chain Quotes

• “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.” ~ Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.
• “If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.” ~Jack Ma, CEO Alibaba.
• “Be a supply chain innovator.  Research Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, Blockchain, Drones, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence…” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.
• “Lets go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” ~ Steve Jobs, co-founder Apple.
• “Blockbuster? Digital changed the way we rent movies. How will the digital supply chain impact the way we do business?” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.
• “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.” ~ Larry Page, co-founder Google.
• “Here are a few key supply chain trends you may want to research: Internet of Things (IoT), 3D Printing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Deep Learning and Drones.” ~SupplyChainToday.com.
• “It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.” ~ Masaaki Imai
• “You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy everyday.” ~Jeff Bezos, Supply Chain Innovator.
• “The digital supply chain has the potential to completely change supply chain. However, do your due diligence before rushing in.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.
• “There is only one boss – the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”  ~Sam Walton, founder of Walmart
• “To understand the predictive enterprise research Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.” ~Dave Waters
• “Think of a 3D printer as your TV. The same way your TV streams movies your 3D printer could download plans to make any product in your warehouse. Is the future of warehouses the same as video stores.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com.
• “Robots are taking over.” ~Anonymous