How to Control the Stack Quantity Level in a Container – MagicLogic

Overview

By default, Cube-IQ will stack products in as many levels as necessary to fit into the container. However, containers can be set with a maximum number of stacking levels allowed inside them. This article will show you how set these limits.

Requirements

Any currently supported version of Cube-IQ installed on your computer.
Valid license.
Or be logged in to Cube-IQ Web.

Procedure

Here is a Sample Load of where the stacking reaches 6 levels. There are 100 products to load, 25 of each color.

Here is the Sample Load re-optimized to have the Container stack no higher than 2 levels. The rest of the Products are loaded into a second container.

A Container's Product stacking level cannot be controlled with a Product's Maximum Stack rule.

A Product's stacking can be controlled by its Product attribute Maximum Stack; however, Maximum Stack only limits how many it can stack on itself.

Setting Maximum Stack to 2 for four different Products does not prevent these four Products from stacking 8 levels high, four stacks of 2s if the height of the container is tall enough.

Here is the Sample Load re-optimized after Maximum Stack is set to 2 for each Product. The Maximum Stack rule of 2 only limits products to stacking up to 2 on themselves.

Product Maximum Stack of 2 rule is working above. No Products is stacked more than 2 on itself; however, the Container is not limiting the stacking quantity of Products. The Container above has Products stacked up to 5 levels.

Limit the stacking quantity level in a Container with the General Maximum Stack Quantity Setting.

The General Maximum Stack Quantity is in the Setting's Client Specific tab.

The Client Specific tab is unavailable by default. The "Let the software show Client Specific Data" box must first be checked before this tab is available in the Settings area.

Show this tab by clicking: