u/Few-Profession-6477

Sorry if this is a stupid question but i need some advice with pallet building. How can i do it smart and effectively so that one it doesn’t look like shit and that it makes sense. i try my best to use the heaviest to build a strong base. With our pallets, each one has stops. usually 1-15. so for example i can be working on a 6 stop 50 piece pallet. rule of thumb where i work is you build from low # to high. lowest number in back high in front. problem is any route labels i get dont go in order number wise, so i end up trying to play tetris when building. two of my pallets last night i had stops 5 and 9 mixed together and stop one buried at the bottom of the pallet. Got reamed for it and i can’t think of any good solution to help fix my problem. i love order picking and don’t see myself doing anything else. i just need to build. better and faster. If it helps i’m picking the dry side of my warehouse so we deal with a ton of pizza places, so cases of oils, toppings, pops etc.

Three weeks ago i started my job as an order picker at the small warehouse in my town. We have a dry section and a freezer section. I got put into the dry pick section. First couple of weeks were rough to say the least. we do single pallets at a time. The rule of thumb here is that everything picked goes by stops, so for example stop one, stop five and stop nine. the way they expect you to stack the pallet is lowest stops in front, high in back. What’s throwing me off is the 6 stop orders and it’s mainly big boxes of like foam drinking cups, fryer oils and big boxes of ice cream cones. As of now i’m sitting at about 70 pieces picked per hour, and i want to be the best at this that i possibly can. i’ve noticed though little things i’m doing hinder my time management a bit. like, putting a box on the pallet, then immediately trying to fix it so it’s perfect, the finger scanner took a bit to get use to but that’s not so bad now. i’m just looking for any advice on how to be more proficient because i don’t think 2 pallets being done in an hour is very good.