As discussion around the tracking of household goods shipments increases, leading Australian global pallet supplier Brambles is hoping to launch its pallet tracking program in the United States within 12 months.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the company has adopted GPS technology and drones to improve traceability of its familiar blue-painted CHEP pallets. Brambles is currently trialing a project in Chile to allow customers to better manage inventory and save time. Tags on all of its 2.6 million pallets in Chile mean that they can be automatically read by cameras as they pass in and out of trucks and warehouses, cutting the time needed for declarations and pallet audits. If the results of the trial are positive, Brambles will expand the offering to the United States.
Graham Chipchase, Chief Executive Officer of Brambles, said that the company has already spent tens of millions of dollars in the United States on cameras and other infrastructure to support deployment. While it could take Brambles over four years to tag all 100 million pallets in the U.S., Chipchase said that the company would start seeing value from a rollout within about 18 months.