Total Pallet Management Coast to Coast
Total Pallet Management
One vendor, one call, one invoice. ePallet runs your pallets, packaging, and logistics across every plant in North America — sourcing, inventory, design, heat treatment, and recycling, managed as a single integrated program.
What is Total Pallet Management?
Total Pallet Management is ePallet’s program model that consolidates pallet sourcing, inventory, logistics, design, heat treatment, and recycling under one accountable account team. Multi-plant manufacturers replace five or more regional suppliers with one vendor, one call, and one invoice — backed by 1,600+ vetted partners across the US, Canada, and Mexico.
National Sourcing & Vendor Consolidation
ePallet maintains a network of 1,600+ vetted pallet manufacturing partners across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Every partner is screened on quality, capacity, financial stability, and ESG posture before they handle a single board foot for your operation.
Once a partner is onboarded, they are monitored continuously. We track on-time delivery, defect rates, and customer-specific KPIs at the line-item level — so the partners that supply your Texas plant are held to the same standard as our owned and operated facilities.
- 1,600+ partners pre-qualified on quality, capacity, and financials
- Initial screening covers ESG, ISPM-15, and insurance posture
- Ongoing monitoring against your customer-specific KPIs
Full-Loop Inventory & Logistics Management
Having just-in-time inventory means your line never stops for missing pallets. ePallet runs the full loop for you: forecast, stage, deliver, repair, return, scrap.
Coordinated FTL and LTL freight, drop-trailer service, and scrap removal are bundled into a single program. You manage one schedule, not five regional supplier calendars.
- JIT staging matched to your production forecast
- Repair & return programs extend usable pallet lifecycle
- FTL, LTL, drop-trailer, and scrap removal under one program
Customer Reporting & Cost-Savings Initiatives
National rebates, extended payment terms, and consolidated invoicing reduce the administrative burden of a multi-plant pallet program. Your AP team sees one PO and one invoice, not fifty.
Custom reporting is built around your KPIs — total cost of ownership per plant, defect rate by SKU, freight efficiency, and program-level rebate accruals are visible on demand. Load Sync Technology surfaces the route-and-spec choices that move the cost needle.
- National rebates and extended payment terms
- Plant-level TCO and defect reporting
- Load Sync Technology for route + spec optimization
Pallet Analysis, Redesign & Standardization
Most multi-plant operations run over-engineered pallets on some lanes and under-spec pallets on others. Our Pallet Design System (PDS) consulting — delivered through our membership in Woodpack Global, formerly NWPCA — pins down the right spec for each lane.
Redesign for cost reduction without dropping load capacity. Standardize SKUs across plants. Run a LoadSync analysis to model the freight implications before a single new pallet ships to your floor.
- PDS-driven redesigns through Woodpack Global (formerly NWPCA)
- Standardize spec across plants without dropping load rating
- LoadSync models freight and total cost before production
Heat Treatment & ISPM-15 Compliance
In-house heat-treat kilns operate at Sugarcreek, Middlefield, and Byesville. Pallets bound for export leave our docks already ISPM-15 compliant — no third-party kiln middleman, no schedule risk.
Documentation, stamping, and chain-of-custody records travel with the load. Your customs broker sees what they need to see; your line sees a pallet that lands compliant the first time.
- Owned heat-treat kilns across the ePallet facility network
- ISPM-15 stamping and documentation handled in-house
- No third-party kiln dependency in the export schedule
Recycling & Green Initiatives
Every ePallet facility runs zero-landfill. Sawdust from the cut shops becomes animal bedding, landscaping mulch, firewood, and erosion-control silt socks. End-of-life pallets become mulch, fuel, or feedstock for the next reconditioned unit.
This is the documentation your sustainability officer needs for an EcoVadis audit or a Scope 3 disclosure — not a marketing claim. We provide the chain-of-custody records on request.
- Zero-landfill operations across every ePallet facility
- Sawdust diverted to bedding, mulch, firewood, silt socks
- End-of-life pallets routed to mulch, fuel, or remanufacture
How TPM works
Four steps from first walk-through to program-managed.
Every TPM rollout follows the same four-step sequence — adjusted for your number of plants, lanes, and the urgency on your line.
Onboarding & Discovery
A senior account team walks every plant location, audits current pallet flow, and documents each lane spec, volume, and freight pattern. Nothing changes in your operation until we know it cold.
Vendor Consolidation Plan
We map each lane to either an owned ePallet facility or a vetted partner from the 1,600+ network, model the total-cost picture, and present a transition plan with milestones and risk gates.
Implementation & Inventory Setup
JIT staging, repair-and-return loops, drop-trailer schedules, and Load Sync optimization go live plant by plant. A single ePallet program manager owns the cutover.
Ongoing Management & Reporting
Custom reporting documents plant-level TCO, defect rate, freight efficiency, and rebate accruals. Quarterly business reviews surface the next cost-savings initiative.
In their words
Working with ePallet has always been a great experience from start to finish. I order many different sized pallets and their quality, pricing and service are unmatched. Thank you ePallet for always taking care of us.
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