| Nearly all businesses that produce consumable | | | | --Keep important machine parts in your inventory: |
| items use product packaging systems. Coming up | | | | Even when you use flexible packaging, any kind of |
| with new and more cost-effective packaging is an | | | | down- time on your line is costly. Keeping an |
| ongoing job for many: there is a delicate balance | | | | extensive inventory of spare parts on hand just |
| that must be struck between making packaging | | | | makes good common sense. Always have the |
| attractive to consumers, protecting the product, | | | | following on hand: parts that are key to your |
| and keeping cost per unit within reasonable | | | | machines' operations, difficult-to-obtain parts, and |
| parameters. Maintaining the lowest possible | | | | items that wear out quickly. |
| packaging costs, after all, is an essential element | | | | --Rethink your design systems: If you are still |
| to long-term success. Here are a few quick tips | | | | using the same packaging system you were using |
| for lowering industrial packaging costs. | | | | 10 years ago, you may be losing money due to |
| --Use flexible packaging: If you are still using | | | | inefficiency. You can bring in a packaging expert |
| old-fashioned boxes or other forms of | | | | to assess your equipment, procedures, and |
| "antiquated" packaging, you may be hurting your | | | | systems, and who can help you streamline your |
| bottom line. Not only are these methods | | | | operations on the packaging end. |
| expensive at the production level, they also may | | | | The goal should always be to maximize output |
| hurt you financially through a decreased shelf | | | | while minimizing labor and materials costs. |
| presence at the retail level. Flexible packaging is | | | | Packaging technology has come a long way even |
| lower-cost, convenient, colorful, effective, and is | | | | in the last five years: let it work better for you. |
| the undisputed wave of the future in packaging. | | | | |