These days more and more large distribution chains are coming up all across European countries. All these department stores deal with several types of products.
Some of the typical products can be as follows:
Food products
Mechanical objects
Electronic items
Consumable items
All these products may differ from store to store as some of them can be super stores, megastores, and hyper stores and their setups can be quite different too.
Irrespective of the type of item and set up there will be a need for a pallet changer or turner that in France it is known as retourneur de palette.
The following are a few areas where such pallet changers can play an important role:
1. For hygiene regulation
Although pallets offer a lot of advantages while handling goods that need proper hygiene, however, wooden pallets may not be suitable in this kind of situation. That is because wooden pallet is likely to get contaminated after repeated use.
Here plastic pallets will be more suitable as plastic can easily be sanitized. However, plastic pallets may not be very cost-effective.
2. For replacing damaged goods
While handling or transporting various goods there is always a chance that the item may get damaged due to mishandling by an operator.
This may result in a waste of time as the operator has to manually replace the damaged product.
Suitable pallet changers can easily speed up this operation and facilitate the operator to replace or remove the damaged products immediately.
3. Shipping areas
Retail stores often need to ship consignments almost daily. For this reason, the pallet change solution will be most appropriate which can deliver products on certain cheaper pallets to customers and suppliers.
Usually, the products in this area can be shipped on wooden pallets. Most retail stores prefer to save the cost of this shipping pallet by replacing any quality pallet with a certain less expensive one.
4. Sales areas
Generally, in this area which is reserved for staff, the entire products of the store are handled by using a pallet. In most cases, pallets are made of wood where the product is wrapped within a package.
Each store’s traffic necessitates extensive material recycling in the warehouse. Consequently, it is imperative to control product availability in a timely and consistent manner at all times.
5. Warehouse
During the handling of heavy loads, often there is a possibility that after transporting the load some items may get damaged accidentally or an operator may mishandle the item.
Here, a quick replacement of the pallet will be necessary for a safe warehouse that can be automatically handled.
Wooden pallets are the most often used pallets for managing products worldwide. Costs and handling uniformity play a major role in their global dispersion.
The justification for standardisation is also pretty straightforward. Using machinery, it is possible to handle stacks of quite varied products using standard-sized pallets.
Both delicate and non-tipping articles as well as sacks of extremely durable goods are delivered this way, regardless of location.
