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Deakin surveys supply chain and logistics industry

The Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL) at Deakin University is keen to hear from the supply chain and logistics industry about pallet usage.
“Researchers at CSCL are hoping to establish a regular Australian pallet survey about user requirements and usage patterns nation-wide,” said Dr Hermione Parsons, Director of CSCL.
“We found that Australian information on pallet usage is not readily available, and we have nothing in Australia that compares with the US Pallet Survey, for example,” she added.
“Pallets may not seem a very glamorous topic for research but they are crucial to Australian supply chains.
“We are hoping to pick up on trends such as ‘less-than-pallet-load’ requirements, as freight becomes much more granular, and the trends in requirements for pallet tracking.”
The Australian Trucking Association is encouraging its members, as well as other key industry manufacturing and transport and logistics peak bodies, to take the anonymous five-minute online questionnaire.

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