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Load diagrams generated by Load Planning are displayed in an easy-to-understand graphical interface. Load assignments may be displayed in a variety of formats, both in a detailed or summary fashion. The user may even manually adjust the diagrams using intuitive drag-n-drop techniques. Diagrams may be printed for use by warehouse or transportation staff.

Creating diagrams manually can take up to 10 to 30 minutes per load. Diagrams are often drawn by a highly skilled member of your staff, sometimes a manager or supervisor, whose skills could be put to better use elsewhere. Sometimes, when the employee responsible for diagrams is out of the office, the load plans suffer because the replacement may not have the proper skills, introducing additional inefficiencies into the workflow. Creating diagrams using Syntelic Load Planning can take just seconds per load and will increase the project efficiency without the need of a manual drawing.

If you do not have planned load diagrams, the loaders must take the time to review each pallet (or other container) to determine where the product should be stored in the trailer. If there are more pallets than footprints in the trailer, products must be down-stacked and re-stacked to achieve a set of pallets that will fit.

Both of these tasks require substantial time during the loading process. The double handling resulting from re-stacking also subjects cases to a higher risk of damage or misplacement in the load.

A clear load plan ensures selectors know exactly where to place each case. There’s no time taken to consider how to split an order across pallets or how many pallets should be allocated to a stop or compartment. Those decisions have already been made. And because the pallets are built according to exactly how they will be loaded, there is more opportunity for direct select-n-load operations, possibly eliminating the staging process altogether.

One key characteristic of a well-loaded trailer is its ability to be unloaded. Cargo should be stacked in a way that things can be quickly and easily removed once it reaches the destination. If things are stacked in a way that they could topple, or certain things are wedged and difficult to extract, it could add unnecessary hurdles that make the process take longer.

Because the location of every case has been consistently and clearly defined, the driver takes less time to locate the proper cases for each stop to complete the delivery. Also, because the cases are better organized, there is less chance of a found-later-on-truck which results in costly re-deliveries or credits.

Because special customer requirements are built-in to the Syntelic configuration, you can be assured that each customer’s delivery will be built correctly every time.

As noted above, because the driver can depend on knowing where each delivery’s product is located, and because there is less need for double-handling on the loading dock, over, short and damage (OS&D) counts will decrease.

Syntelic’s Load Planning lets you build loads designed to scale-out properly. This will consistently reduce or eliminate overweight fines and the time required for reloads.

Warehouse operations constantly push to keep the maximum cube or weight limits per load to a manageable level. That’s because it’s hard to know ahead of time how the load will flow and how much will really fit on the trailer.

With Syntelic Load Planning, warehouse operators gain confidence to increase the capacities because everyone will know that, if the diagram says it will fit, then the load will fit.