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Costco pallet requirements: what's public, and auditing PECO or CHEP loads to Costco

What's publicly reported about the pallets Costco receives on, and how to audit a pallet account when only Costco loads go out on pooled pallets.

What's public

Costco doesn't publish its pallet requirements; they come through your buyer and Costco's supplier documents. Trade press reported that from January 2011 Costco receives only on block pallets, mostly CHEP, PECO or iGPS rental pallets (Logistics Management, 2011). That's an old source: confirm the current rules with your buyer.

Auditing when only Costco loads are pooled

A common setup: Costco depots get PECO (or CHEP) pallets, and every other customer gets whitewood. If your WMS doesn't record the pallet type, a pallet audit has to know that only the Costco loads count.

In PalletAudits, answer the site's setup questions with "PECO only goes to Costco". The audit then picks out every Costco depot in your shipments (part of the name is enough), treats everything else as whitewood, and matches each Costco load to a PECO transfer. If the pallet company shows PECO declared to anyone else, the report flags it.

Sources

Logistics Management (Nov 2011)

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General information, not advice about any specific contract. Your agreement with the pallet company sets the actual fees and deadlines.