November 3, 2020

Packaging Impact

The Packaging Impact : Empty space, sustainability and customer satisfaction

An efficient supply chain is a vital customer winning factor in today’s highly competitive world. McKinsey1 highlights “sustainability requirements increasing at every step of the value chain” as one of the five major packaging industry trends.

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of financial, environmental, and customer satisfaction factors of transporting empty, unoptimized space. The first part of the study is based on logistics-related books, academic research papers, industry surveys, and whitepapers.

The second part aims to acquaint the reader with existing regulations and real world packaging optimization implementation cases.

Paper bags

Key Considerations When Ordering Paper Bags

Urja Packaging, a Delhi based company, are suppliers to many national retail chains and have mostly found that the paper bags they were sourcing before us were diverging from the details mentioned in the purchase order and this was causing a loss of 5% in almost all cases and 33% in the worst cases for our clients. So they decided to open all techniques that a purchase manager can use to ensure adherence to the details mentioned in the PO and level the playing field.

Tethertube

WITH TETHERTUBE, ALPLA IS A STEP AHEAD

Simple, practical and good for the environment. That describes ALPLA’s latest innovation. The lightweight mono-material tube is completely recyclable, can be used as a refill container, amongst other things, and is easy for the consumer to use. The real highlight, however, is the closure.

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