APC Palletization Advantage
Palletization: The key to efficient warehouse operations
The quality of the palletization algorithm is the single most important factor in determining the overall efficiency of your warehouse operation. This is because a highly optimized algorithm lets you operate your warehouse with the following benefits:
- Limits sku splitting
- Minimizes fork truck traffic
- Minimizes pallet count
- Maximizes pallet stability
- Maximizes truck space
- Minimizes labor
Put APC's competitive advantage to work for you
Reducing a list of orders for a route to a set of pallets is truly a problem in combinatorial optimization. Like most combinatorial problems, palletization is easy to do badly, and difficult to do well. APC engineers are specialists in this branch of mathematics. The common thread in all APC products is our ability to outperform the competition in engineering combinatorial algorithms. No customer who has tried our DPS system has ever removed it, because the quality of our palletization algorithm, and the resulting warehouse productivity are unmatched.
APC's palletization algorithm is like having the best picker in the best beverage warehouse helping your workforce improve their judgment and productivity. APC's palletization algorithm never gets tired, always is at the top of its game, and always saves you money.
So what is it worth to your operation?
Some of our competitors proudly report pick rates of 160 cases per hour. APC customers enjoy rates well above 250. The economic impact of this difference is easy to calculate: Assuming a $20/hour total labor cost, a picker doing 160 cases costs $0.13/case. With DPS allowing 250 cases to be picked per hour, the cost per case goes down to $0.08. Saving a nickel per case adds up quickly - a warehouse moving 10 million cases per year would see an annual labor savings of $500,000. A state of the art palletization algorithm really is the engine of an efficient picking operation.