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■ ■ Floor loading restrictions. Some floors are not rated to support heavy loads. ■ ■ Weather. High humidity diminishes packaging strength. ■ ■ Vehicle lift-height capacity. Obviously, loads may not be stacked higher than the lift-height capacity of the pallet-handling vehicle. ■ ■ Building clear height. Even more obviously, loads may not be stacked higher than the ceiling clear height (Figure 5.7).

Honeycombing and Lane Depth Optimization Because only one SKU should be stored in a lane or stack, empty pallet spaces are created that cannot be used effectively until an entire lane is emptied. A ceiling view of a typical

Figure 5.7 Block stacking in a raw materials warehouse in Lima, Peru

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