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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.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.5:
  • [All] NF: Functional Quick Pallet Maker web-based server. Final spec to be defined.
  • [All] NF: Pallet lists with multiple boxes can now be exported to the MS Excel 2003 XML spreadsheet format which is readable by MS Excel version 2003 and above, besides other apps like OpenOffice Calc.
  • [All] AF: Clicking "Optimize" on a Type 10 calculated pallet delivers equivalent optimizations but with alternative patterns. If no pattern is available with the same amount of cartons per pallet, then nothing will appear.
  • [All] BF: Advanced Input Options window can now calculate cylindrical package box fill and will not crash if this option has been selected.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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Developer:Koona, LLC
Downloads:5,458
  - Version d/l:219
Business:Applications
License:Demo
Date:24 Aug 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$19.95
RATING
*****
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    May 29 2006

    SMTIPS  This price should open the door for a more reasonable developer to offer a similar product at a much lower and less insane price.  
    (Version 4.1)

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    Jun 30 2006

    TOMAS SANCIO  That's precisely what we did.

    Compare the Quick Pallet Maker price to CAPE (http://www.capesystems.com) or TOPS (http://www.topseng.com) for an idea of competing products. Note that they don't have Mac OSX versions. There's another product that is more than $1000 that I can't recall right now.

    Also note that we haven't charged for upgrades in 5 years, so the customers that paid once for some features have been treated with many more.

    Cheers.  
    (Version 4.1)

    praisebury
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    Nov 21 2005

    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)

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    Jun 30 2006

    TOMAS SANCIO  For an example of some savings while using Quick Pallet Maker, consider the one on the following link. This person is saving US$ 51,000 per year with the new container arrangement.

    What we recommend people to do is to use their own data to calculate their shipping costs for X amount of items from point A to B before and after calculating a pallet arrangement with Quick Pallet Maker. If it's more than the $379, then fine. If not, then you were able to do all that without being hassled by a salesman.

    Cheers.  
    (Version 4.1)

    praisebury
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    Jan 5 2007

    PLASTIC PALLET  "If not, then you were able to do all that without being hassled by a salesman."

    That's exactly right!  
    (Version 4.2)

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    Mar 14 2005

    ANONYMOUS  $379. Un-pallet-able.  
    (Version 3.4.1)

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    Jun 23 2005

    TOMAS SANCIO  From the developer: Note that competitor's products are more expensive and that they don't offer no-hassle free 30-day downloads.   
    (Version 3.4.1)

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    Jan 12 2005

    ANONYMOUS  $379.00?

    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)

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    Jul 28 2001
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    ANONYMOUS  This is great if you work on eBay and you have to ship all of the packages.  
    (Version 1.2.1)

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