Handle with care!(pallet management)

Thomas A. Foster is a journalist in Westtown, PA, who writes about logistics and related business topics. He is a frequent contributor to WM.

Pallets literally support the warehousing industry. To get maximum yield, operators must manage pallets properly--on their own or through a pallet-management company.

Some call it pallet management. Others call it pallet retrieval and recovery. Still others call it third-party pallet pooling.

But by any of those names, the idea's the same: Leveraging the value of pallets by reusing them, which is clearly the