In Packaging guide for groceries, published by ECR Sweden, there are recommendations for the maximum pallet height and maximum weight for consumer units, cases and pallets. The recommendations, or the recipient-specific rules, have been prepared to enable optimised road transport and storage in racks at distribution centres.
The recipient-specific rules are used by some buyers, but not others. If the buyer uses recipient-specific rules these are checked in Validoo Item on behalf of the buyer.
Within grocery retail the following recommendations apply:
- Pallet height max 1250 mm
- Pallet weight max 1 000 000 gram
- Consumer unit weight max 15 000 gram
- Case weight max 15 000 gram
- Half pallet weight max 500 000 gram
- 1/3-pallet weight max 334 000 gram
- 1/4-pallet weight max 225 000 gram
Even if the buyer applies the recipient-specific rules, he can make exceptions, called dispensations, for certain types of item. It is the buyer who decides if he will permit a height in excess of the maximum pallet height or a weight over maximum weight. It is the buyer himself who issues and administers dispensations. Contact your buyer, therefore, to get a dispensation from the recipient-specific rules.