By default, Pickler calculates transportation using the final product weight across all transport legs (e.g. from processing location to warehouse).
However, in reality, transport does not always reflect the final product weight.
For example:
A product may be partially produced in one location, then transported to another location for assembly. Only after assembly does it reach its final weight.
Since Pickler applies the same pallet weight and size across all transport legs, you cannot adjust the transported weight per step.
This means that early transport legs may be overestimated if you don't correct this.
Workaround
Since weight cannot be adjusted per leg, you can correct the transport impact by adjusting the distance.
This works because:
Transport impact scales linearly with both weight and distance
If weight is too high, you can reduce the distance proportionally
How to apply this
Enter your route as you normally would, but adjust the distance based on the weight difference.
Take the actual distance (in km)
Calculate the correction factor:
actual transported weight / final product weightMultiply the distance by this factor
Example:
Final product weight: 10 gram
Semi-finished product weight: 4 gram
Actual distance: 1,000 km
Correction factor:
4 / 10 = 0.4
Adjusted distance in Pickler:
1,000 × 0.4 = 400 km
Why this is a workaround
Pickler currently applies pallet weight and size uniformly across all transport legs. Adjusting the distance is a practical way to approximate real-world transport until per-leg weight adjustments are supported.