Unit Load Design: Short Course for Pallet Suppliers
The Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design at Virginia Tech is hosting a course on unit load design for pallet suppliers August 23-15, 2016 at the Brooks Forest Product Center. Through this course you will learn the following objectives.
Objectives:
• To effectively design corrugated boxes
• How to use pallet design to reduce packaging spending
• Reduce product damage
• Identify opportunities to reduce the operating cost of your supply chain
• Learn the principles of System Based Unit Load Design: the systems based optimization procedures that will improve customer service and increase your competitiveness
• Learn how to use the Best Load™ unit
Instructors:
• Marshall S. White, Professor Emeritus and CEO of White and Company
• Laszlo Horvath (Director, Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design)
About
Pallet and unit load research has a long history at Virginia Tech. For more than four decades a cooperative arrangement has been in existence with the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association. That arrangement was solidified and made permanent in 1976 when the Association provided funds for the construction of the William H. Sardo, Jr. Pallet and Container Laboratory. Since then the center which is currently changed its name to Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design was involved in various research activities to move the design of packaging, pallet and unit load design to the 21st century. For full history click here.
For a full course agenda click here. Deadline to register is August 5, 2016. Register now and find out more.
