- A cube is the amount of space or volume a shipment occupies on a trailer.
- In the wholesale purchasing and shipping industry, a “case cube” is a measurement denoting how much space a case of any given item will take up in your warehouse.
- The case cube may be measured in cubic feet or cubic meters.
- If you know the dimensions of a case, you can easily find the case cube in order to put in the correct cubic feet measurement in your Routing Requests and Advanced Shipment Notifications.
- Measure the length, width and height of a single unit in either inches or meters.
- Multiply the length, width and height of the unit together.
- Divide the result by 1728 if your measurements were in inches and by 100 000 if your measurements are in centimeters.