A Literature Review on the Pallet Loading Problem

Nowadays, businesses face a fierce competition. Hence, implementing strategies to achieve competitiveness is elemental. For that purpose, in the logistics field, the proper use of resources is a must. According to several experts, storing and transportation have a high impact in the overall supply c...

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Authors: Saúl Vargas-Osorio, Catya Zúñiga
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2016
Country:México
Institution:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repository:Redalyc-UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:613964500008
Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=613964500008
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https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6139/613964500008/movil
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Ingeniería
Pallet
Logistics
Transportation
Literature Review
Pallet Loading Problem
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Summary:Nowadays, businesses face a fierce competition. Hence, implementing strategies to achieve competitiveness is elemental. For that purpose, in the logistics field, the proper use of resources is a must. According to several experts, storing and transportation have a high impact in the overall supply chain profit. Therefore, lowering their impact by increasing efficiency contribute to a higher profitability. An efficient palletizing can cause to easily ship more goods onto a pallet with the consequent savings in transportation and storage. The denominated Pallet Loading Problem (PLP) focuses on finding space optimization to load the maximum quantity of packed product onto the pallet.This article presents a literature review of the most prominent approaches with the objective of showing the main characteristics and solution methods proposed by researchers. Thus, the understanding of these solution approaches can help in the development of new strategies or approaches to deal with the palletizing.