Total Pallet Management, or TPM, is a program in which a provider oversees a customer’s entire pallet operation. At Prime360, we use our expertise to provide comprehensive, customized TPM services for our customers, allowing us to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve sustainability. Inventory, transportation, labor, quality, scrap management, and more— Total Pallet Management service is our avenue to optimizing your supply chain at every level.
One trend we’ve noticed is that people are becoming increasingly aware of the value of merchant compliance and sourcing to a standard. Pallets are the conveyor of the products that sustain our country, and while quality has always been important, the volume being employed right now has made it more crucial than ever to make certain that pallets entering the supply chain are in top condition. Not only are poor quality pallets hazardous to human and product safety, but they can also become a huge expense over time.
Pallets are the foundation of any supply chain operation, no matter what product is being shipped or how that product may be transported. Yet, for those unexperienced in logistics management or new to the business of transporting goods, choosing the appropriate pallet for their business may appear as a simple decision between different materials—a significant reason why many retailers choose to utilize Prime’s pallet management services.
As with any new method or product, however, many supply chain technologies have come and gone with little to no benefit added to the user; for example, radio-frequency identification or RFID tags, which were intended to track items from manufacturer to customer, were ultimately found to be too cost prohibitive to have any real benefit. For companies, this muddies the waters when looking to invest in advanced systems. Prime360 offers the services of and support for technologies proven to create tangible benefits for companies looking to increase efficiency, promote safety, improve sustainability, and more, backed with the expertise to ensure seamless integration with existing practices and structures.
Stores are an integral part of the supply chain, to say the absolute least. As the point of contact for customers to receive products and services, ensuring optimal operations at each location is crucial for continued success. Yet, with concerns such as delivery times and volume increases can, at times, make achieving peak efficiency a complicated task. Further, with limited store capacities, many retailers find scrap pallets and the question of their disposal to pose a serious and reoccurring issue. Piling up in stockrooms and storage areas, pallet cores, odds, and scrap can easily accumulate into a serious drain on time, labor, and resources, costing large amounts of revenue to manage.
The supply chain is a foundational aspect of any successful business, and pallets are an indispensable aspect of it. As the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association’s motto states, “Pallets move the world.” Nearly every major industry depends on them to move their products, from retail to healthcare to grocery.
