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To reduce transportation costs for products arriving from overseas, cartons are normally hand-stacked in the shipping containers. This works quite well for reducing shipping costs, but if we’re not careful, we may give away the savings in storage and handling, once we open the container door.
Storing cartons of product would seem, on the surface, to be a relatively simple matter.
Put them on a pallet, stack them on decked rack, put several on a mini-load tray, place them on shelving in the pick face or even put them in carton flow rack. But, which one, and how much?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James M. Apple, Jr. is a Director in The Progress Group. Prior to co-founding The Progress Group in 1991, he was a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand's SysteCon division. During 1992-1995 he served as a Senior Systems Advisor with Vanderlande Industries, a major conveyor and systems provider in Europe.
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