Freight - Pallet and Skid Definitions

A skid is a single-deck loading platform which lacks a bottom deck. It is a low-profile mobile platform which simply rests on pedestals attached to the deck. 

Skids were used extensively before the creation of the double faced pallet in the 1930s.

When defining a Pallet or Skid, you need to specify the weight of the Pallet/Skid itself as well as the total weight it can carry.

You need to also set the Width, Height and Depth of the empty Pallet or Skid itself.

You can define as many pallet sizes as you require.

When defining cartons you can select to link the carton to a pallet, setting the minimum and maximum numbers of this size carton can fit on the pallet.

• Related Articles

• Carton Selector on Dispatch Record

  Introduction On a delivery record, we have a field showing the default cartons selected for the job to be packed into: This is designed to provide the user a quick lookup of suitably defined cartons that the product will fit into. This refers back to ...

• Freight - Pallet Control & Pallet Labels

  Introduction Cartons are auto-calculated by printIQ when quoting based on pre-set rules.  Cartons and pallets are configured under ‘Manage Shipping’. Pallets can be created: Cartons can then be linked to pallets where a min/max carton qty per pallet ...

• Packing Operation with Carton Calculations

  You can now expand the functionality of your packing operations to calculate the packing time as well as the required quantity of the most suitably defined Cartons needed for the job. There are two parts to setting this up  Material (the carton ...

• Inventory - Skid/Pallet Tags

  Introduction A Skid (or Pallet) Tag is an identifier label that can be generated and placed with an item for later reference. Upon receiving material into the warehouse, skid tags can be generated containing the following information: Skid ID & ...

• Freight Carton overrides on Simplified Sessions

  Customer users cannot select the cartons to be used to dispatch the orders, leaving it to the system to determine. While in most cases this works well, some simplified products may have specific packaging requirements that are not automatically ...