Quick Pallet Maker — Most products are shipped in boxes and then in standard pallets. Most of the time, these standard pallets are shipped within standard containers or in trucks. Frequently, there is some extra volume and/or weight in the containers or in the trucks that is billed anyway by the carrier but that is not used by the client. The use of this extra space through software tools should be an important factor for all manufacturers.
Based on this need, at SCA Mecanica we have created Quick Pallet Maker, an easy to learn pallet loading/package design program that allows the user to calculate the optimal secondary package dimensions and pallet arrangements, thus reducing shipping costs.
NED JEFFRIES WAREHOUSE MGR. The author needs to find a price justification algorithm. Anybody who really needs this program will be happy to go through a few hoops to register it. At this price, the author is so insanely off base he can't expect to worry about support calls keeping him away from making the $299 update. (Version 4.0.1)
I'm sure there's some rationalization for that price... but it's a definite deal breaker for most self-employed or small business people, rationalization or not. (Version 3.4)