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TAN SOLUTIONS LTD

Slough · wholesale of other household goods

Company No. 17428573 · SIC 46499 · Slough

Household goods wholesale, read down either column

This page is set out the way the unit is set out: receiving on one side, despatch on the other, the same case on both.

  • Registered office Slough
  • Incorporated 31st August 2026
  • D-U-N-S 235115711

As received in · 01

A unit load as it comes off a vehicle Three tiers of cases on a timber pallet. Angle boards stand at the two corners, two straps run round the stack and the wrap is already on. A supplier label hangs from the side. The top tier sits a little to one side of the tiers below it. Supplier Height on arrival
Corner boards, two straps, a wrap that has already done a journey. The top tier has walked, and that is written down before anything is lifted off it.

As built out · 01

A unit load as it leaves the marshalling lane Three tiers of cases built square on a timber pallet of the same size, the pattern turning a quarter on the middle tier. A wrap spirals from the base to the top and back down, and a label plate is fixed to the front face of the bottom tier. Built height
No corner boards, no overhang: a square build, the pattern turned a quarter on the middle tier, wrapped base to top and back, plated on the face.

The same case, one floor apart

02

Vehicle on the bay

The plan is let across the gutter because its two ends belong on opposite sides of this page.

Plan of the unit, receiving doors on the left wall and despatch doors on the right A rectangular unit. Two receiving doors on the left wall open onto a check bench and a hold pen. Four racking runs stand in the middle with marked aisles between them. Two despatch doors on the right wall open onto two marshalling lanes. A line runs from the bench across the middle of the unit to the lanes. BENCH HOLD PEN RACKING RUNS MARSHALLING MARSHALLING
Receiving doors left, despatch doors right: bench, location, pick face, lane.

Goods in the bay

Slots are booked by email against a reference, a vehicle type and a pallet count. The bay is cleared before the slot opens: a vehicle waiting on floor space blocks the next one.

  • Curtainsiders are stripped from the nearside, pallet by pallet.
  • Box trailers are worked from the rear on a counterbalance truck.
  • Tail-lift drops are taken at kerb height and walked in on a pallet truck.

Goods out the lane

Pallets are staged in drop order, last drop nearest the headboard, so the first delivery of the run is the last pallet on and the first off. One lane holds one vehicle, swept empty before the next run.

  • Pallets load nose to tail where the footprint allows it, side by side where it does not.
  • Loading starts once every drop has its paperwork clipped to the head of the lane.
  • Lane edges are taped; a pallet outside the tape is not loaded.
  • A part pallet is wrapped and plated like a full one, never shrink-wrapped to a neighbour.

03

Counting against the note

Read a column down and it is one job; read a row across and it is one rule, twice.

Each check, at the receiving bay and in the despatch lane
The check On the in bay In the out lane
Who counts01 The bay hand, off the vehicle, pallet by pallet, before the wrap is cut. The picker down the list, then the loader again over the built pallet.
Against what02 Three figures: the delivery note, the order record, the count on the bay. One figure, two pairs of hands: the pick list, signed by each.
When they agree03 Booked in, put away, and the location written on the record. Wrapped, plated, staged in the lane in drop order.
When they do not04 Hold pen, and a line: the time, the counted figure, the case code. Marked short and queried against the racking, never swapped for a lookalike.
What is held05 Nothing off that pallet is pickable until the line is closed. The drop does not load until every line is signed off.
What is written06 The booking-in record — slot, vehicle, pallets, cases, locations. It stays. The despatch note — drop, pallets, cases, gross weight, signature. It travels.

In full: receiving, despatch.

04

The case, specified

One sheet read at the bench, one in the lane. Between them, the only description of a carton this office works from.

IN 04

Case, as received

Outer
Corrugated case, single or double wall, plain or printed.
Inner count
Read off the case marking, never assumed from the range.
Marking
Case code, inner count, gross weight, country of origin.
Unit load
Timber pallet, four-way entry, wrapped and corner-boarded.
Condition
Crushed corner, wet board, popped tape and shifted tier each take their own line.

Read at the in-bay bench before the wrap is cut.

OUT 04

Pallet, as built

Footprint
Taken from the booking, not from habit.
Tier pattern
Column stacked for strength; interlocked where the case is light.
Overhang
None. An overhanging case is the one a dock plate catches.
Wrap
Base turns, up the stack, back down, finishing under the top tier.
Plate
Front face: drop reference, pallet number of total, case count.

Read in the marshalling lane before the wrap goes on.

Cases, inners, wrap and dunnage: the pallets sheet. What each range needs: the ranges sheet.

05

Reading a stack that has travelled

A stack that has walked in transit shows it in the pattern long before it shows it in a damaged case.

Why the tier pattern is read before the wrap is cut

On the bay

A pallet that arrived leaning is counted on the floor, not on the truck. A tier that has slid, a corner board folded and a strap gone slack are one sentence written three ways, and all three go down before a case is lifted off.

In the lane

The build answers it. A heavy case goes column stacked, every corner carrying down to the deck; a light case goes interlocked, the pattern doing the tying in. The choice goes on the lane sheet, so the next build starts from a decision and not a habit.

06

Four decks on the floor

Every figure below is worked against one of four footprints, and nothing goes onto a fifth without the booking saying so.

  • Deck 01

    1200 × 1000millimetres

    The widest deck taken in, and the one most mixed loads arrive on it.

  • Deck 02

    1200 × 800millimetres

    Narrower by 200 mm, so the same count climbs a tier higher.

  • Deck 03

    1200 × 1200millimetres

    Square, so a tier pattern turns either way without re-measuring the overhang.

  • Deck 04

    800 × 600millimetres

    A half deck for part orders, wrapped and plated like a full one.

A build that changes footprint mid-run is re-counted from the deck up. Racking and rotation: the racking sheet.

07

Two sheets of arithmetic

One nesting runs the length of the floor, and a working sheet hangs off the part of it each divides. Both print their division for the clipboard.

  1. The vehicle

    Internal length, width, height.

  2. The pallet

    A footprint and a built height.

  3. The tier

    A layer, and the next turned a quarter.

  4. The layer

    Cases flat on the deck.

  5. The case

    The outer and its inner count.

01 → 02 · on the bay

Container fill sheet

With scripting off this prints as a blank form; the internal dimensions are on the transport sheet.

Floor positions
—
Second tier
—
Capacity
—
Left over
—

The division

    Guide only. It packs one orientation at a time, so a hand-worked mixed load can beat it.

    03 → 05 · in the lane

    Pallet fit sheet

    With scripting off this sheet prints as a blank working form for the lane clipboard.

    Cases per layer
    —
    Tiers to height
    —
    Cases per pallet
    —
    Deck covered
    —

    The division

      Plan of one layer on the pallet deck, drawn from the figures entered

      Guide only. A bulging case, a domed lid or a slip sheet all take height this division does not know about.

      08

      Tiers, wrap and plate

      The load that came in, the floor between, and the pallet being built to go out On the left, a wrapped pallet from a vehicle with its wrap cut at the base and its top tier being taken down whole. A dashed line runs across the floor to the right, where three tiers of cases are placed onto a timber pallet, the pattern alternating on each layer, a wrap line travels up the stack and back down, and a label plate is fixed to the front face. Top tier off whole Bench, location, pick face Tier, tier, tier, wrap, plate
      • As received, coming down
      • As built, going up
      • The floor between them

      Coming down: the wrap cut at the base on one side only, the top tier read before anything is lifted off it, tiers taken whole rather than picked at from the middle, the empty pallet graded or scrapped.

      Going up: the pattern turned a quarter on every second layer, the wrap from the base turns to the top and back, the plate on the face last. The record stays; the note travels.