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Optimization of packaging sizes

  • US 8,712,579 B1
  • Filed: 09/14/2012
  • Issued: 04/29/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, comprising:

  • code that obtains a specification of a period of time;

    code that obtains data describing a plurality of past shipments, each of the plurality of past shipments corresponding to a product collection that has been shipped in a single respective package from a materials handling facility to a respective customer during the period of time that has been specified;

    code that determines, for each of the plurality of past shipments, a three-dimensional bounding box that encloses the corresponding product collection, at least some of the three-dimensional bounding boxes differing from one another; and

    code that generates a packaging suite from the three-dimensional bounding boxes determined for the plurality of past shipments, the packaging suite specifying a plurality of different sizes of packaging that are to be employed in the materials handling facility for future shipments originating from the materials handling facility.

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