The Advanced Loading System with Flash Load (ALS) has a familiar graphical user interface, and on-line help. It's easy to learn and easy to use.

ALS loads items the way you specify - for stacking, drop location, orientation - in the vehicle or container you indicate. If you'd like to change the position of any item, you can easily drag and drop them to exactly the position you want.  To load them in a different container type, you will need to re-send the load for re-planning.

This page shows just a few of the unlimited possibilities of ALS. The snapshots were all taken from the same angle, but you can view and print a load from any 3-D viewpoint.

Building Products

This is a load plan of building products.  ALS was instructed to only load the items lengthwise. With the click of a button, you can view the other side of the load with the 'reflect load across' feature in the Modify/Total Container pulldown menu.

Products are colored for easy on-screen visual reference - you can even print the 3-D diagrams in color.  If you move products in the container, the axle weights are dynamically updated - and turn RED to signal an overweight condition.  Item movement in 1/8" increments gives precise position control.

If you need to move just one unit of a product group, the Split function breaks the block into individual components.

Furniture and Appliances

This is a load plan of furniture, with the sofas loaded upright.

Palleted Products

This is a load of whole warehouse pallets.  To have ALS show the item on a pallet, just mark the 'P'allet field of the item with an 'X'.  Be sure the Height is the total measurement of the product and the pallet.

Spools of Cable

This is one truck in a 5-truck load plan of large, heavyweight spools of cable. Re-arrangement after ALS planned the load was done to fine-tune the axle weight distribution. Alignment is possible in 1/8" increments for exact positioning.

Mixed, Picked Pallets

ALS will automatically build mixed, picked pallets of items.  Simply use the same PNo (pallet number) for all the line items that go together.  If items MUST be placed on different pallets, use a different PNo.  Set the maximum pallet height, minimum vertical and horizontal contact (for load stability), and overhang allowance. ALS will also enforce stacking restrictions.

Optimize a Multi-Carton Customer Order

You can even load plan a complex, multi-carton customer order.  Just define the available cartons you have as 'containers' , enter all the line items as usual in an orderlist, and have ALS easily tell you which items to put in which cartons.   This sample is one carton from an 8-carton order of books.

Complex, Mixed-Item Load

As you can see, ALS really optimizes cubic space in a container - while simultaneously enforcing orientation, stackability, and surface contact area.  If you've provided accurate internal container dimensions and external item dimensions and weights, the items will fit exactly as diagrammed.