Our Story
Zhihuo's roots are in container loading optimization. We have developed container loading software since 1998, and the company was established in Beijing in 2003. Over that time the work has grown from single-carton loading into mixed-carton and palletized loading, and more recently into rotational molding layout and production scheduling.
Today the company has offices in Beijing, China and Winnipeg, Canada.
How We Work
Our main business is not shrink-wrapped software. It is:
Customized development
We adapt the planning software to a client's real cargo, containers, pallets, and operating rules, rather than forcing the client onto a fixed feature set.
Company-wide licensing
Once a solution fits a client's process, we license it for use across the organization instead of charging per seat for a generic tool.
Free Trials Are a Baseline, Not the Ceiling
The free trial and download versions on this site — the SmartPacker editions T1, T3, and U3 — are deliberately simplified. They show the core capability and give you a concrete starting point, but they are a baseline for customization, not the full product.
A customized deployment is built around each client's own cargo-loading rules. Because of that, a production version can be significantly more sophisticated than the baseline trials: more constraints, client-specific rules, real master data, additional reports, and integration with the systems you already run.
As one example, a container loading solution can be extended into shipment scheduling: by reading your order, inventory, and production-plan data, it can produce shipment plans that optimize not only container fill rate but also on-time delivery. Capabilities like this are delivered only through customized development, not in the free trial versions.
Get in Touch
If you want to discuss a customized container-loading solution or a company-wide license, we would like to hear about your process and constraints.
Email us at zhzx@zhihuo.com. To see the baseline tools first, visit the product home page.
Our Tools
The public editions are baselines you can try today and starting points for a customized, company-wide deployment.
SmartPacker T1 / T3 / U3
Single-SKU, mixed-carton, and upright palletized container loading.
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