Researched
E-Commerce & Fulfilment
Online shops from the mid-1990s turned warehouses into fulfilment centres that pick and ship single orders to homes.
Open in the interactive tree →Amazon and eBay opened in 1995; selling single items to millions of addresses needed scanned, tracked stock and parcel networks on a new scale.
Prerequisites
- Barcode & Scanner1974
- World Wide Web1991
Unlocks
- Warehouse Robots2003-2012
- Drone Delivery at Scale2016-2026
- Resilient Low-Carbon Logisticsopen
Sources
More in Transport & Mobility · Digital Age
- QR Code1994
- Hybrid Cars (Prius)1997
- Warehouse Robots2003-2012
- Mass-Produced Electric Car2008–2012