The Allen Export Company ships sugar to many overseas ports. Over the years the company has stacked large bags of sugur onto pallets for shipping. Because of a lumber shortage, pallets for export have become very difficult to obtain. The management of Allen Export has presented the dock manager with the chalange of reducing the number of wooden pallets used and/or to find a new way to supplement or change their stevedoring system.

Question: Can system be devised to eliminate the shortage of pallets?

Can you give me a step by step solution for this given problem with method as follows?