dead-headingto a storage location to get a pallet, but then travel productively to carry that pallet to shipping.single cyclepallet movements are either stows or retrievals, a forklift operating under single-cycle protocol dead-heads at least half the time, because it must constantly return empty to receiving to unload another pallet or else travel empty to retrieve another pallet for shipping, as in Figure with the pallet is reduced — this is the subject of the next section. Another way is to reduce deadheading by careful interleaving of put-aways and retrievals, so that after a put-away, the...