Pallet Program Savings
The Costs You Cannot See Are The Ones You Keep Paying
Use your own data to estimate the financial and environmental impact of your current pallet program. With just a few inputs, our interactive calculators reveal opportunities to reduce costs, improve operational performance, and lower your environmental footprint.
Supply Chain Cost Calculator
Hidden Operational Cost Calculator
Enter your numbers to estimate the hidden costs affecting your business. From lost pallets, damaged products, line jams, worker injuries, downtime, and replacement purchases, these rarely show up as a line item, so they rarely get challenged. See how a fleet of sensor-embedded smart pallets turns those blind spots into costs you can catch, prove, and recover.
Total pallets shipped or received monthly.
Typical value of goods on each pallet.
Percentage of shipments requiring temp control.
Number of DCs, warehouses, or delivery locations.
Pallet Carbon Footprint Calculator
Scope 3 Exposure Calculator
Scope 3 is no longer optional. California's SB 253 requires value-chain emissions disclosure for large companies starting in 2027, and more states are moving the same way. Wood pallets carry a heavy footprint: new lumber harvested, milled, and trucked, replaced cycle after cycle, then landfilled at end of life. Estimate your current fleet's Scope 3 exposure, then model the reduction under a leased, recovered, 100% recycled HDPE smart pallet program.
Your fleet
Sets the Category 1 manufacturing factor and the unit weight.
A mixed fleet applies the wood share below to your Category 1 and 5 totals.
Only used when the fleet is mixed.
Pallets moving through your network today.
Turnover
Industry default by pallet type. Override it if you know yours.INDUSTRY DEFAULT
Transport
Average length of haul for US truckload tenders is 533 miles.INDUSTRY DEFAULT
Outbound trucks per year, used for the Category 9 transport read.
4.009 kg CO₂e per softwood pallet, 7.29 hardwood, 4.507 for an industry mix. The hardwood factor is weight-scaled from a softwood study.
0.3676 kg CO₂e per pallet on the industry end-of-life mix (0.0047 landfill, 0.37 recycled or repaired).
Weight delta between a wood pallet and an APS pallet at 25 pallets a truck, over the trip distance, at 0.7034 L per 100 tonne-km and 2.68 kg CO₂e a litre of diesel.
0.75 kg CO₂e per pallet per year. Under the lease, manufacturing sits on APS's Category 13 rather than your Category 1.
40 lbs softwood, 72.7 hardwood, 47 industry mix, 55.75 for an APS smart pallet.
Industry default replacement is 15% a year hardwood, 75% softwood, 64% mix, plus a 10% loss rate on top.
12 board feet a pallet at 7,000 board feet an acre. Typical commercial yields run 2,000 to 6,000, so this understates the acreage spared.
1.124 tonnes CO₂e a year for a typical US passenger vehicle, per the EPA.
Every factor without a direct peer-reviewed primary source is calculated conservatively, so the real reduction potential is likely larger than what this shows. Treat the output as a floor, not a forecast.
- LeDoux et al. (2001), USDA Forest Service GTR-NE-280.
- Hobbs, Horvath and Gething (2025), BioResources 20(2):3047-3074.
- EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle.
- GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.
The blind spot
Every Blind Spot Has A Price. You Just Saw Yours.
The costs you just estimated stay hidden for one reason. The pallet is the only asset that touches every load, at every node, and until now it has reported nothing.
It Touches Every Load
No other asset in the network sees every pick, every trailer and every dock. That is what makes it the right thing to instrument.
It Has Been Silent Until Now
Wood cannot report. Pooled wood carries an RFID tag at best, which tells you a pallet passed a reader, not what happened to the load.
A Tracked Fleet Removes The Argument
A consistently tracked fleet is a chargeback problem you can just remove.
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