Article | REF: A9280 V1

Palletizers and palletizing

Author: Jacques THIBAULT

Publication date: July 10, 1998

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6. Palletizing logistics

6.1 General

Running a modern industry poses many problems that any industrialist, whatever his or her background, has to solve.

Let's take a moment to consider the duality of commerce and finance when it comes to inventories.

The cost of developing a product is easy to control. On the other hand, its operating cost, i.e. the value added between the time it is packaged and the time it reaches the customer, is much more difficult to control. This cost includes packaging, handling, storage and transport. Handling and storage are clearly the most difficult parts of these operating costs to grasp, and as soon as we are concerned with the minimum cost price of a product, these are the key items that must be attacked and, if possible, eliminated....

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