Palletizing is a critical part of the distribution process, but different companies store tires differently so alternative solutions are needed.

The three main ways of palletizing are horizontal stacking, vertical stacking, and stacking in rick-rack pattern. Horizontal palletizing is carried out by a gantry robot. The robot picks complete stacks of tires and places the stacks on pallets. For vertical stacking universal robots are used. The robot picks a complete stack (horizontal) from pick-up position. The robot turns the stack 90° and places it in the cage, which holds from one to four rows. Universal robots are also used when storing tires in automatically generated high-density rick-rack pattern. Two tires at a time are collected from the pick-up position and the robot builds the pattern on a pallet.

Whichever method is used the palletizing process is a fully integrated part of the warehousing and distribution system, controlled by the Cimcorp WCS. Different sizes of tires mean that a different number of them will fit into a cage or onto a pallet. The system controls this and builds the appropriate size of stacks for each tire type.