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| Case Study - Woolworths – Brisbane Regional Distribution Centre
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Pallet Control Objectives
- Substantially minimise the time taken to reconcile pallet movements.
- Reduce the large volumes of paperwork associated with pallet management.
- Increase the accuracy of pallet control.
- Streamline processes for handling pallet transfer queries.
- Provide a valuable and practical service to vendors – particularly smaller suppliers – to assist them control their own pallet movements.
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| Unisource - Ontario, Canada
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Pallet Control Objectives
- Minimise monthly pallet transfer charges.
- Streamline the management of traded pallets
- Eliminate the risk of lost pallets and thus the need for compensation payments or purchasing replacements.
- Increase productivity in pallet management.
- Reduce pallet control costs.
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Pallet Control Objectives
- Minimise financial risk inherent in pallet loss.
- Improve customer service through enhanced pallet transfer procedures and management.
- Ensure the company is always totally aware of its pallet stock position and obligations.
- Place all depots nationally on individual pallet supplier accounts rather than having them operating under single corporate wide accounts.
- Substantially reduce the number of ‘IOU' pallet movements by introducing formal transfer procedures.
- Ensure optimum pallet reconciliation and streamline this essential work.
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Pallet Control Objectives
- Consolidate all individual operations under single pallet supplier accounts.
- Ensure ease and effectiveness of pallet stocktakes.
- Ensure customers receive only one pallet account irrespective of how many individual 1st Fleet locations they are dealing with.
- Eliminate the double data entry and error prone processing of internal pallet transfers.
- Rapidly identify where pallet transfer problems are occurring so prompt corrective action can be initiated.
- Reduce overall reconciliation workloads.
- Minimise the risk of lost pallets and thus the need for compensation payments.
- Better manage pallet transfers to, among other things, eliminate unnecessary hire payments.
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| JV Pallet Control - Victoria Australia
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Pallet Control Objectives
- Implement appropriate pallet management IT tools to handle both single site and national pallet accounts.
- Have such IT tools to facilitate remote reconciliation of client pallet accounts.
- Streamline the reconciliation process to substantially reduce associated workloads.
- Enable reconciliations to be conducted at any time rather than having to await month end accounts from pallet suppliers.
- Provide a pallet management system that would deliver major and demonstrable benefits to JV clients.
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| Star Track Express - Australia
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Pallet Control Objectives
- Minimise the risk of lost pallets and therefore the need for compensation payments.
- Ensure no unnecessary pallet rentals were being incurred.
- Maximise the accuracy of pallet transfer processing.
- Minimise pallet reconciliation workloads.
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“Because we process transfers on each day, we are able to notify every vendor – again daily – of all of their pallets that we have received and transferred. This is handled automatically by 2ic’s email notification feature.”
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Ms Jane Moraghan, Transport ULD Supervisor, Woolworths BRDC. Customer since 2005. |
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