The retailer has the power to drive sustainable transformation
Plastic pallets have always been a more efficient platform for the supply chain.
However, figuring out how to make a more expensive asset compete at the same rental pricing level as the dominant wood platform has been the challenge.
That's where SCai comes in.
By partnering commercially with retailers, SCai is deploying a pool of intelligent pallets to modernize the food supply chain.
Retailers participate in the success of the scaling pool of assets without having to invest scarce capital
Pallets, historically a pure cost centre, begin to impact retailer cash flow positively with limited changes to existing processes and behaviour and a vast improvement to food handling efficiencies
The result is that all participants in the food supply chain win, with reduced costs shared among all parties interacting with the new pallets
Markets with a higher retailer private label footprint are fast adopters
The old pallet pooling model is dead
A much smaller pallet pool now meets the same customer demand
Transparent pricing - No more Invoices with lines of charges nobody understands
Pool cycle times optimized (assets are ‘sweated’ efficiently)
Loss rates become negligible
No more manual reporting, stock counts, reconciliations, audits etc.
Retailer Distribution centres act as SCai service centres
No need for third-party service centre network to inspect & repair pallets
Pallets ship directly back to customers from retailer
Tighter geography, faster cycle times
Higher profitability by eliminating the biggest traditional wood pallet pool overhead
data enabling ai to rip up the old playbook
Demand / Prediction analytics
Automatic pool balancing and routing
Enhanced pallet recovery
Tighter customer inventory management
Sensor Data + ai + Pallets = Intelligent Pooling in the supply chain
