What is pallet and load building?
The main application areas of pallet and load building are:
- designing a load, on box, pallet and/or trailer level, to assure full truck loads
- checking the fit of planned loads with the available space of a transportation resource
(box, pallet or trailer).
In these application, many criteria are being taken into account, such as: stackability, trip order, axle weight, packaging regulations, contamination etc. Average results of applying advanced pallet and load building are savings up to 5-10%.
Where can pallet and load building be applied in the supply chain?
In the supply chain there are many possible application areas for pallet and load building. Some of the focussed on creating full truck loads (FTL), in some situations the focus is on combining less than truckloads (LTL). Most common areas are in the supply chain are:
- sourcing orders (FTL focus)
- interplant and stock transfer orders
- direct store deliveries
The most common application areas are pictured below.
Next to that, the function of designing or checking loads, can be done by different departmants. Most common departments are:
- at vendor managed inventory management
- at order creation (to check of an order fits into a truck while maintaining the utilization of the truck)
- at stock and transport management
- at dedicated (3PL) services
- at customer service (to check the space needed to transport an order ,whilce securing
the utilization of a truck)
- near to the end of the supply chain, at transportation planning and at warehouse execution |
What are the challenges that trigger the need for advanced pallet and load building?
Main triggers are:
- the need to reduce logistics spend without jeopardizing customer service
- the ambion to better serve customers while handling their demand and taking their shipping orders
- the goal to maximize efficiency and increase utilization in transportation (inbound as well as outbound)
- the need to optimize warehouse execution to fulfill your customers orders more effectively
- the goal to realize significant cost savings through load consolidation and higher load factors
What is included in ORTEC pallet and loadbuilding?
The load planning calculates 3-dimensional packaging proposals with the goal to most effectively utilize your equipment and transportation assets. Tree variants are available:
- box loading optimization
- pallet building optimization
- vehicle space optimization
All applications offer support to processes such as:
- import of orders
- visualization of product dimensions and loads build
- transparancy of item locations in boxes, on pallets or in trailers
- reports on utilization of space
- checks on loading instructions: stackability, contamination, axle weights etc.
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Typical application areas described in detail.
The best known ORTEC Pallet and Load Building Solution Spotlights are:
- Vendor managed inventory and order creation
- Stock and transport management
- Dedicated (3PL) services
- Customer Service (order sizing)
- Transportation Planning
- Warehouse Execution
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1. Vendor managed inventory and order creation ORTEC Pallet and Load building helps you to determine the transportation needs based on forecasted customer demand. The actual demand is categorized and prioritized to optimally build load plans and orders to ensure your customers will receive the right product at the right time. Optimization will enable you to combine heavy and light product intelligently to ship more product with the same fleet. Optimized load plans are proven to increase the utilization of the actual transportation assets with more than 5% in comparison to the operation prior to ORTEC.
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2. Stock and transport management ORTEC Pallet and Load building helps you to maximize the load efficiencies between your own facilities. In order to support the actual product demand downstream optimized pallets and loads are being created to ship against minimal transportation spend. As part of this process you select from multiple transportation modes and determine the most appropriate cost-effective ways of shipping the product.
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3. Dedicated (3PL) services ORTEC Pallet and Load building helps you to support what-if scenario’s and the generation of solution proposals in a bidding process. The solution will quickly analyze the shipping needs and determine the optimal fleet mix and number of resources required to satisfy the demand/orders. The solution is presented with 3-dimensional pallet and load plans to demonstrate your capabilities. The solution will also satisfy stability and safety requirements as well as any specific customer requirements for the composition of pallets and loads.
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4. Customer Service (order sizing) ORTEC Pallet and Load building will support your customer service personnel to build feasible and optimized loads as part of the order creation process. The solution simulates the actual pallets and loads in real-time based on the provided information and allows your team to be proactive with the customer to increase the utilization of the transportation assets. Collaboration at this level will lead to better orders and a lower transportation spend. Customers see a significant higher utilization (5-10% more cube) in combination with a smoother operation downstream in warehouse and transportation.
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5. Transportation Planning ORTEC Pallet and Load building will allow you to more effectively plan your transportation. The solution will be able to very accurately calculate which transportation mode and fleet composition to use to ship your orders. It will also help to optimize orders can be consolidated on the same trailer while satisfying the palletizing, loading and timing constraints for multiple orders, customers and delivery points. ORTEC Pallet and Load building can be used in conjunction with ORTEC Vehicle Routing and Dispatch to improve the overall efficiency of your transportation operation and mitigate the traditional conflict between optimizing the geography of your delivery routes or optimizing the loads of each trailer.
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6. Warehouse Execution ORTEC Pallet and Load building improves the planning of the order picking process by providing detailed instructions about the carton and pallet content, placement and the duration and the distance for each picking unit. Picking performance can be further improved in terms of accuracy and speed if this is used to control a Pick-by-Voice system. The solution allows you to define the layout of the warehouse and the characteristics of the storage bin locations to further optimize the productivity of the worker in the warehouse.
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