RPC’s are manufactured in different sizes and configurations according to manufacturer specifications and end user needs. As a result, a store chain’s location at any given moment will have a wide variety of RPC’s that have been used to ship all types of goods. When these RPC’s are collected and returned to the distribution center this situation is magnified by container after container of RPC’s that need to be sorted.

Additionally, as these containers often ship perishable food commodities there is an inherent need for cleaning and sanitizing. Our manufacturer and store chain partners do not have the local infrastructure to handle these tasks. An additional challenge is that a particular store chain may have RPC’s that are made by several different manufacturers. As a result, thousands of RPC’s in varying sizes, states of repair and cleanliness can come through the doors of a chain’s distribution center per week. Our client, as is the case with many, on occasions order more material than they have the warehouse capacity to manage. This client ramped up orders in anticipation of more than $200 billion in planned tariffs levied by the federal government on certain products and commodities from China.