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In their various roles, tertiary items offer significant<br />
potential for total supply chain savings and are key to<br />
integrated supply chain solutions.<br />
The pallet is the predominant tertiary item used in the<br />
factory, with dollies sometimes used to carry stacks of<br />
RTIs. The roll cage is the predominant tertiary item<br />
used in the retail part of the supply chain. However,<br />
developments such as Efficient Replenishment will<br />
require new tertiary solutions which can be used right<br />
across the whole supply chain.<br />
In Europe, a proliferation of unit load dimensions exists<br />
– footprints and heights – resulting from piecemeal<br />
development within single nations and different supply<br />
chains. The rationalisation of manufacturers’ logistics<br />
networks – with one or few European plants and/or<br />
central warehouses supplying many countries – and<br />
the growing internationalisation of retailers have<br />
resulted in the increasing interchange of tertiary items.<br />
With trends towards faster throughputs, mechanised<br />
handling, and environmental concern there is a need<br />
to standardise and rationalise fragmented tertiary<br />
items.<br />
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Supply chain developments increase tertiary mixing<br />
and interchange and drive the need for state-ofthe-art<br />
developments.<br />
Figure 24: Integration of unit loads<br />
Pallets Roll cages<br />
Source: A.T. Kearney, Efficient Unit Loads project<br />
Integration<br />
Cases Boxes<br />
Integration<br />
Containers Compartments<br />
Integration<br />
Rollable pallets<br />
Modular boxes<br />
Compartmental<br />
containers<br />
The Efficient Unit Loads Report
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