Solution: Pallet and Load Building

Are you looking for:

creating efficient loads across the supply chain?
optimization of the order picking process?
realizing cost-saving potentials with LTL load consolidation?

Especially when you have complex and heterogeneous package items, a large variety of transportation modes and when you need the high quality fulfillment of the customers service level agreements, then ORTEC Pallet and Load Building can support you with advanced planning of cost efficient shipping of your goods with:

cartons
pallets
containers (truck, trailer, baytruck, railcar, container, air cargo container and many more)

ORTEC Pallet and Load Building optimizes your load planning by calculating 3-dimensional packaging proposals for cartons, pallets and/or load space types like trucks, containers etc.

ORTEC Pallet and Load Building uses professional algorithms from OR science (Operations Research) in a modern, user-oriented technological environment to give our customers the opportunity to realize their cost-saving potential in transportation. It has been implemented since over 10 years in many different industries and business areas and works in many different IT landscapes also embedded into SAP ERP. Our solution offers a wide area of customization possibilities to meet the specific needs of your business.

How do customers optimize their processes with ORTEC Pallet and Load Building functions?

The best known ORTEC Pallet and Load Building Solution Spotlights are:

1. Load optimization (Transportation Planning)
2. Order picking planning (Warehouse Management)
3. Combined route and load building (Transportation Planning)
4. Order quantity optimization (Order Entry Service Desk)
5. Transportation services (Offer Calculation)
6. Optimization of primary transports (Stock Management)

1. Load optimization (Transportation Planning)
ORTEC Pallet and Load Building can help you to optimize the usage of limited transportation capacities (e.g. your own fleet) by choosing the best mix of transport units based on availability and increasing the total weight and volume usage to an optimum taking into account all kinds of load restrictions. Define the max. quantity of containers available per type and let the algorithm propose you the best usage.

Our clients with this solution: Käser, Kermi

2. Order picking planning (Warehouse Management)
ORTEC Pallet and Load Building improves the planning of the order picking process by providing detailed instructions about the carton and pallet content, the duration and the distance for building each picking unit. Improve your picking performance by providing detailed picking instructions or use the results to control a Pick-by-Voice system. A specific module allows you to define the layout of your picking area and the characteristics of the storage bin locations to manage picking process by the results of the planning process.

Our clients with this solution: Loreal

3. Combined route and load building (Transportation Planning)
ORTEC Pallet and Load Building can help to improve the quality and the efficiency of your route planning (pickup & distribution). The combination of ORTEC Vehicle Routing & Dispatching and Pallet & Load Building creates the most high-sophisticated transportation planning solution on the APS market. Let ORTEC cross solution offerings help you to solve the conflict of 'perfect geographic routes' and 'best usage of load capacity'.

Our clients with this solution: Carlsberg, Kaldewei

4. Order quantity optimization (Order Entry Service Desk)
ORTEC Pallet and Load Building can be used in your order entry process to simulate in real-time the load based on the order quantities given from your customer sales orders or your vendor purchase orders. Let your service department be proactive by simulating different options to create efficient loads (e.g. define custom-individual product dimensions and use bundling, palettizing or loading to verify the effect for larger transport units, create Full Truck Loads or optimize the pallet footprint usage for Less Truck Loads).

Our clients with this solution: Pontmeyer, Kappa, Mreal

5. Transportation services (Offer Calculation)
ORTEC Pallet and Load Building can help you as a transportation service provider to have a more accurate load planning and offering your customers more service by providing detailed load plans. Improve your response time for quotes by using efficient software tools.

Our clients with this solution: Kühne&Nagel, Schenker

6. Optimization of primary transports (Stock Management)
ORTEC Pallet and Load Building helps you to create cost efficient transport units for your primary transports (Plant - Distribution Centre, DC - DC) with different transportation modes for rail or truck. Select from your distribution centre demand order pool the due orders, optimize your transport units and fill up - if required - with other orders to get the optimal usage of your load capacity.

Our industries

Carton Pallet and Vehicle Space Optimization in Consumer Packaged Goods

load building 144 x 88 What is the optimal loading of a trailer or container? In case of multi-stop, the delivery sequence should be respected or possibly optimal computation in one step of both route planning and load building.Read more

Pallet and Load Building in Manufacturing and Construction

load building 140 x 88 Many different package items to be consolidated for efficient transportation, palletizing the right items together for an efficient KANBANS proces.Read more