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How to include transport to customer

A workaround to include transport from warehouse to customer

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Written by Daan van Hal
Updated over 3 weeks ago

By default, Pickler calculates transportation from the gate (processing location) to the warehouse. This is the core scope of Pickler’s transport calculation.

Sometimes you may also want to include the final delivery from your warehouse to your customer.

Since Pickler uses the same pallet weight and size across all transport legs, you cannot directly adjust the weight for just this last step. Instead, you can use the distance field to correct for less efficient deliveries.

Step 1. Add a new transport leg

Scroll to Transport legs and click Add leg.

  • From: your warehouse location

  • To: your customer’s location

  • Method: choose the right transport type (e.g. Truck with trailer, B7 Diesel)

  • Distance: enter the distance between warehouse and customer

Step 2. Correct the distance for partial loads

Customer deliveries can be less efficient because trucks are not fully loaded. To reflect this, you can adjust the distance:

  • Take the actual distance in km

  • Divide 1 by the fraction of the truck that is filled

  • Multiply the distance by that correction factor

Example:

  • Actual distance: 650 km

  • Truck is 40% full

  • Correction factor = 1 / 0.4 = 2.5

  • Distance entered in Pickler = 650 × 2.5 = 1625 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 account for less efficient customer deliveries until a dedicated field is added in the software.

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