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QUICK PALLET MAKER CONTAINER FILL EXAMPLES

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Basic Pallet In Container Calculation:

This example explains one of the most basic Quick Pallet Maker container-related operations which is to calculate how many packages can be fit into a 40' container. Click on the picture at right or here to open this example.

Filling Containers With Floor-Loaded Boxes:

The purpose of this example is to show how Quick Pallet Maker can be used for filling containers with boxes placed directly instead of on top of pallets (i.e. floor-loading). This is done for saving the space taken by the pallets and when manual labor is inexpensive enough for loading box by box.

Pasting Box Data In Container:

This example explains how the the box data can be pasted onto the container fill window directly from a tab-delimited text file to save plenty of time.

Package To Box To Container:

The following example explains how to create boxes from primary package dimensions when we know the case count. The boxes will be floor-loaded onto a 40' High Cube container.

How Many Boxes Per Type In A Container:

A Quick Pallet Maker user wants to determine how many boxes of two types should he include in a container to optimize the payload in a 40' High Cube container. The first step is to run QPM and open a new fill container window. Then, we add two boxes: type 1 measures 61 x 51 x 47 cm and weighs 30 k; type 2 measures 51 x 47 x 30 and weighs 15 kg. The person needs to ship 380 units of the first type and 190 units of the second.

Using A Shipment List To Calculate Pallets And Containers:

The purpose of this example is to explain how a shipment list on a spreadsheet can b e used for calculating pallet and container loads. Basically, we copy the data from a spreadsheet to calculate a pallet from boxes and then we use the list of pallets to fill a container.

Creating A Shipment With Finite Packages:

This example explains how Quick Pallet Maker can be used to create a container load with a certain number of primary packages of known dimensions into standard cases, then into standard pallets and finally into a standard container.

Filling Containers With Pallets Using Multiple Box Sizes:

The following example explains how to load a container with a given number of products separated in two different box types.

Filling Containers With Boxes Without Knowing Case Count:

A customer approaches us on how he can reduce the shipping costs for products that he imports from India. He doesn't use pallets to load the boxes in order to save space and because the labor costs in the country of origin and in the destination country are quite low. He also didn't care about the case count as long as it would fit as many packs as possible into the container. The reason for this was that the packages would be sold in small amounts anyway in high-frequency stores.

Creating shipments without knowing case count and with a finite number of packages:

In the following example, the user has a primary package with the following dimensions: 69 mm x 24 mm x 10 mm and needs to ship one million (1,000,000) of them in a 40' container. Each one of the products weighs 0.055 kg.

Mixing pallets, drums and boxes in a container:

Although this example is quite simple, it illustrates the new container fill features in Quick Pallet Maker in which we can combine elements with different shapes, counts and size to optimize the filling of a shipping container. The first step is to run QPM and open a new Fill Container window.

Picking The Right Container Type:

This is another simple example. A customer that is very new to road transport needs to move 40 pallets from one location to another in a trailer truck. He calls up a transportation company and it quotes him a price for the full trip and offers different container sizes. All else equal, the bigger the size, the higher the cost. The transportation company justifies this by indicating that longer trailers are harder to drive around.

Calculating Shipping Costs:

The purpose of this example is to show how QPM can be used for calculating shipping costs. In this case, a diaper manufacturer wants to pack diaper bags in counts of 6 into boxes and then into pallets and containers.

Loading Cylinders Onto Pallets Onto Containers:

The purpose of this example is to explain how Quick Pallet Maker can be used for loading cylinders onto pallets and then onto containers.

Exporting Container Fill Movies to iPod^TM:

This example explains how to export a Quick Pallet Maker container fill movie for viewing in an iPod media player.

Adding Shipping Routes To Containers:

Here's an example on how to use the new Quick Pallet Maker feature that saves the shipping routes with their costs in the Standard Container file. This allows the user to choose a route so that the shipping cost can be updated automatically when a container is selected.

Moving A Pallet From One Container To The Other:

This example explains how to move an item from one container in a shipment to the other without having to edit the container file manually.

Reordering The Boxes On A Container:

The purpose of this example is to explain how the Quick Pallet Maker container editor can be used for changing the order in which the boxes within a floor-loaded container are drawn to explain better the loading process.

Loading Multiple Saved Pallets:

This example explains how to load multiple pallets onto the Container Fill window that had been saved previously in a Quick Pallet Maker XML text file.