QUICK PALLET MAKER
LOAD OPTIMIZATION
Quick Pallet Maker is an application thatwas designed to help the package
designer create optimal box and palletarrangements to fit more products into apallet or container load, thus minimizing
shipping costs. All of this while adhering
to plant guidelines such as practical box
proportions, maximum box weight, etc.
Quick Pallet Maker can use either
standard box sizes and add slack
accordingly or create new box
dimensions as a function of the primary
package dimensions. For users that
already know their box dimensions, QPMoﬀers an input window where the user
enters box dimensions, making it evenfaster to obtain a result. Resulting pallets
can be modified to accommodate moreboxes within a layer or to shift layers toobtain greater stability. Other functions
include box compression calculations
and inserting internal box dividers.
What does Quick Pallet Maker do?
Quick Pallet Maker provides rules to auser that wishes to pack a product intoboxes and then into a standard load size,
be it a pallet or a container as the finalpackage. Results provided by QPM
reduce costs as much as possible while
adhering to packaging specifications for

CALCULATE PALLET LOADS
Quick Pallet Maker calculates optimal palletloads from external carton dimensions,
independently of the box’s contents. Palletarrangements can be regular, optimized,
display and custom. The Aussie Pack & Shipline extension includes special Australian palletarrangements.

DESIGN BOX SIZES
If only the dimensions and case count of theprimary package are known, Quick Pallet
Maker can be used for calculating thedimensions of new boxes. Case ratio anddimension constraints limit the resulting boxes
to those that can be managed eﬃciently within
a warehouse.

FILL MULTI-PRODUCT PALLETS
Using a list of multiple boxes and theiramounts, Quick Pallet Maker can calculate thenumber of pallets that are needed to completea shipment of boxes. These pallets can then begrouped and loaded into containers. The data
can be entered manually or imported from apreviously configured spreadsheet.

QUICK PALLET MAKER - FEATURES
Start from Primary Package: The Quick Pallet Maker user can choose to start to create an optimal pallet load by entering the primary
package dimensions, the box construction type and constraints, the dimensions of the physical shipping pallet and the pallet loadconstraints.
Start from Box Dimensions: Optimal pallet arrangements can be calculated with Quick Pallet Maker by introducing the case sizes, thepallet dimensions and the pallet load constraints.
Standard Cases and Pallets: Quick Pallet Maker contains a list of cases and pallets that can be reused in diﬀerent problem types. The
standard cases can be used to accommodate a fixed number of primary packages or to fit as many primary packages as possible into
the cases with those dimensions
Design boxes from PP dimensions: The default calculation mode will produce boxes that are big enough to fit a predeterminedamount of primary packages within it. The internal box dimensions are then equal to the external dimensions of the regular group ofprimary packages.
Fit into standard case dimensions: As explained before, the user can add standard case dimensions (oﬀ-the-shelf boxes) to be reusedin diﬀerent packaging situations. The most common use for this range of boxes is to enter a fixed case count and then check which
one of the standard cases is close enough to the calculated dimensions to be used as the packaging box.
Fill standard cases: This calculating mode will start from the dimensions of the standard cases and then add primary packages in
diﬀerent orientations in order to fit as many as possible within the box. All of this is done while taking care of not exceeding themaximum slack allowed.
Use standard pallet dimensions: Commonly-used pallet dimensions can be stored within the standard cases and pallets window inorder to be selected when necessary.
Regular pallets: The default pallet calculation will arrange the boxes by layers within the restricted area of the pallet. In these basicarrangements, the boxes are completely aligned, either lengthwise or transversal to the pallet length.
Optimized pallets: Optimization algorithms built into Quick Pallet Maker will rearrange the boxes in the pallets in order to fit as many as
possible into a pallet layer, even if the outcome is not a regular arrangement.
Pinwheel (display) patterns: Quick Pallet Maker can produce pallet arrangements that are specially made for displaying box sides and/or box lengths to customers. This is done automatically from one of the pallet commands.
Alternate and Mix Layers: In some cases, it is more important to maintain the stability of the pallet load than to optimize the strengththat must be supported by each one of the boxes in the pallet. In this case, Quick Pallet Maker provides a method to automaticallyalternate the pallet layers. In other cases, a new pallet can be formed using arrangements from diﬀerent pallets.
Layer Editor: In some cases, the desired pallet arrangement does not match any of the available optimizations in Quick Pallet Maker.
For these cases, we have added the Layer Editor, which allows the user to rotate and move the boxes one by one.
Single-Sized Objects: Use the Quick Pallet Maker container fill window for calculating how many packs (pallets, boxes or cylinders)can be fit into a container.
Multiple-Sized Objects: Create a shipment of certain amounts of pallets, boxes and drums for delivery within a container. Quick PalletMaker optimizes the arrangement of these objects to reduce costs as much as possible.
Detailed Report: The default output option for pallets created with Quick Pallet Maker is to present the pallet, box and primary
package (if applicable) drawings, along with information of the dimensions of each one of these packaging components.
Report Text: The text from the detailed report can be exported independently of the graphics in order for it to be opened with aspreadsheet program or text editor.
Palletization Movie: Quick Pallet Maker includes a feature that creates an animation of the pallet under construction. This animation (inQuickTime format) can be shared with co-workers that have installed the free QuickTime viewer in their PCs.
Output File Formats: XML, CSV (for box coordinates), SVG, MS Excel (pallet report), JPEG, BMP, PICT and other QuickTimesupported formats (for report graphics), QuickTime Movie (.mov) for pallet and container fill animations

CONTAINER LOADING
Quick Pallet Maker provides the meansfor calculating container fill with pallets,
boxes or drums, either by using a finite
number of elements or by calculating
which is the maximum number of one
type that can be introduced into a
container of a specific size. The former
method involves entering an amount per
pallet, box or drum and allowing thesoftware to calculate the optimal mix forthe given elements. The container load
window can be reached either from theResults Window by selecting the Fill
Container option from the Tools menu orthrough the File menu. It allows the user
to calculate container fill with oneelement type (pallet, box or drum), fill as
many containers as needed depending
on a given order or shipment and viewthe list of containers, pallets and boxes ina given shipment.

QUICK PALLET MAKER CLIENT-SERVER SOFTWARE & API
Quick Pallet Maker is also available as an API (Application Programming Interface) so you canconnect your current internet-enabled software to many of the functions that are available in theQPM standalone application, such as calculating pallets.
The QPM server uses JSON input and works with the SOAP protocol. It is currently oﬀered as aservice. Contact us for more information.
You can find an example of how it works by running a free web app at the following address:
https://www.koona.com/en/qpm/calc/singleboxcalc.html

The Quick Pallet Maker standalone software is available through the Koona website.

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