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This chapter is excerpted from 'The Warehouse Revolution'. This book is a must-read for technologists, retailers, and investors who seek to understand the warehouse automation industry and the associated technologies. It walks through an array of automation options using understandable terms. It describes the history of the industry and how e-Commerce catapulted warehouse automation to the forefront of supply chain operations. The book describes all associated processes including receiving, storage, picking, packing, sortation, and shipping. It compares manual, automated, and robotic alternatives in each case, highlighting the pros and cons. It will also be interesting to those who are simply curious and seek to understand what's happening behind the curtain: the highly choreographed movement of people and machines that enable packages to show up at our respective doorsteps in less than a day.