“Cartonization has come a long way since the modern supply chain came into being. It was once defined by simple ‘Rules of Thumb’ type lists that attempted to tame the packing process by giving some guidelines to pickers and packers. Think: desperate directives in fading blue ink scrawled on post-it notes throughout the warehouse. If you were lucky, you had a database of these rules that might be accessed before generating pick and pack lists. These days, it refers to complex algorithms and logic engines that take large amounts of data into account before suggesting an optimal way of planning, picking, packing, and shipping an order.”

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