2ic Pallets is a specialist software system that delivers the ultimate cost-saving and time-saving tool for managing pooled pallets.

It potently and simply provides highly automated pallet reconciliation and tracking and minimises the risk of expensive pallet loss.

2ic Pallets is the lead product of 2ic Software, a dynamic Australian headquartered IT company that for many years now has worked closely with the logistics sector.

In its domestic market, 2ic has enjoyed substantial and continued growth. A fact, we believe, that is essentially due to having developed a highly effective – yet elegantly simple – solution to the range of serious problems that are inherent in using pooled pallets. The solution is

• quick to install,
• easy to learn,
• suits any supply chain environment where pallets are used, and
• offers a rapid return on investment that is typically achieved in a matter of just a few months.

More recently, 2ic has also begun to command increasing attention globally, with early international sites including those in New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Now, with a fully international marketing focus, we believe that our Australian origins are singularly relevant and our Australian experience singularly invaluable.

Significantly, for example, Australia has long recorded the greatest relative use of pooled pallets globally. It was down under too that international pallet suppliers, CHEP and Loscam, had their genesis. And while some major locations, including the United States, are only now beginning to see the utilization of pooled pallets as the norm rather than the exception, such use has been well established in Australia for decades.

In part, the intensive local adoption of pooled pallets is simply an inherent part of Australia's well recognized innovation in logistics in general. A reputation that has been born of absolute necessity.

It is a vast nation geographically, with a land mass close to that of the USA, but with a small population of some 20 million. As such, there are vast distances between major population centres and also between a myriad of smaller cities and towns. An overall scenario that demands major no-nonsense supply chain efficiencies and strategies to meet the nation's high consumption levels.

As such, 2ic Pallets is a highly effective and precise solution that has drawn from the vast experience of the demanding Australian market to design and develop a genuinely best of breed international solution.

2ic Software has good working relationships with the pallet companies and we make every effort to maintain these relationships. There is no "us against them" attitude from either side.

Our focus is making the task of managing pallets more efficient for pallet users and reducing their risk of losing pallets. Both of these things make pallet users worry less about pallets, and this benefits their pallet supplier because happy customers are less inclined to switch.

Pallet users with their accounts under control are also much less demanding on the pallet company for support.

Like any service business, no pallet company tries to make using their services more difficult for their customers. Good pallet control software contributes to making it easy.