Rosa, did rehandling mean turning the whole pallet or lifting individual cartons? We had a quote once that counted neither as work, which made the proposed saving unusually easy to achieve.

Individual cartons. Nice pallet, wrong faces at the scan point.

That's the sort of thing a simple bench arrangement catches before you've ordered kit, even without proving stack strength.

Sam, yes for labels and understanding the pattern. I would keep the distinction explicit when someone photographs that arrangement for the purchase review; an empty-carton demonstration has a habit of gaining extra qualifications as it travels.

Agreed, I meant an explanation aid. Packed support still needs packaging's assessment.

The annotated drawing arrived. It requires the two end bearing strips to sit on supported carton regions below; our rotated row crosses one gap under an end strip. Packaging has not allowed that bridging.

Would a single-direction candidate be worth drawing alongside it, Rebecca? I'm not claiming it stays stable, only that the existing count shouldn't prevent you asking packaging about another arrangement.

And partial orders. Dispatch needs something usable before the pallet is full.

I would give tooling the rejected gap as well as the bearing strips. Otherwise they may propose finger space in exactly the region packaging has just said must remain supported. The reason for the restriction belongs with the geometry.

We now have a single-direction candidate on the drawing. It supports those strips in the full-layer view, but tooling says their proposed withdrawal enters the neighbouring carton space. I haven't called either layout feasible.

Could tooling show the release and exit, not just the closed grip? Might expose whether it's a body clash or fingers with nowhere to go.

Their existing tool outline identifies the body clash, Sam. We have sent it back for an alternative proposal, with the bearing strips retained. The partial-order arrangement is also unanswered, so dispatch can't choose between these yet.

Rebecca, are you allowed to reduce cartons per layer in that proposal? I'd state whether that's available now; otherwise someone may spend another drawing keeping a count nobody actually requires.

Jasper's question is worth keeping separate from approval. A lower count could create room for the tool, but packaging would still need to assess the resulting support and stack, including those incomplete orders.