This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.Īs an innovation in logistics industry, pallet is known for “Pallets move the world” and “Pallets are the unsung hero of the world of logistics”. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.Ĭompeting interests: One or more of the authors are employed by a commercial company: Inner Mongolia Branch of Agricultural Bank of China (Chunhua Chen). Inner Mongolia Branch of Agricultural Bank of China provided support in the form of salaries for Chunhua Chen, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting Information files.įunding: This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71862026, ), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018T110209, ), Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation of China (2018MS07006, ), and State Scholarship Found of China Scholarship Council (201808155025, ).
Received: FebruAccepted: Published: June 6, 2019Ĭopyright: © 2019 Ren et al. PLoS ONE 14(6):Įditor: Baogui Xin, Shandong University of Science and Technology, CHINA The selection strategies of PMS are proposed based on the results.Ĭitation: Ren J, Zhao Q, Liu B, Chen C (2019) Selection of pallet management strategies from the perspective of supply chain cost with Anylogic software. Finally, the effect of several important parameters on the cost is studied by sensitivity analysis.
The results show that the cost of PR is constantly lower than EMP, and also lower than TPO when the operation period is no more than 37 months. Secondly, all parameters involved in the models are valued based on data that is collected from industry survey. Firstly, cost models of three kinds of PMS are presented. This paper addresses mainly on how to help pallet managers choose a certain kind of PMS from the perspective of supply chain cost. The most common and widely accepted PMS includes extensive management of pallets (EMP), transfer of pallet’s ownership (TPO), and pallet rent (PR). In order to manage pallets efficiently, researchers have developed several pallet management strategies (PMS). Pallets are so widely used that we can find them in nearly every logistical operation scenario.
Pallet is a very important innovation in logistics industry.
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