Controlling the costs of packaging is always an important consideration for manufacturers or any company packaging products. In addition to the cost of corrugated, the cost of shrink wrapping is one of the largest packaging expenses for many companies. Here are some tips on how you can evaluate your shrink wrap packaging to maximize savings.
Reduce Your Bag Length
Measure your shrink bag from one end to the other. If you can reduce your bag length, even by an inch, this will make a considerable difference with savings. For example, if you reduce an 11-inch bag down to 10-inches, you save about 9% immediately. Many companies that perform this exercise find that they are using more film than what is required for each package.
Reduce Shrink Film Width
Shrink wrap film can be ordered in less than 1-inch increments. You might find that you are using a 24-inch bag when you only need 23.5-inches. Just cutting down 1/2–inch can save considerably on shrink wrap expenses.
Maximize Overall Length
By going long and maximizing overall length of your shrink-wrap film, you can keep production running longer and reduce the amount of changeovers. Increase your uptime and reduce shipping expenses with less deliveries.
Reduce Shrink Wrap Film Gauge
Shrink wrap film today is available in a wide range of thickness sizes with more possibilities than traditional film. New technologies offer the same performance in a smaller gauge film. Talk to your film supplier to see if downgauging is an option for you. You might find that you can move from a 60 gauge down to a 38 gauge and save a considerable amount of money with the same integrity.
Reevaluate Your Film Choice
Evaluating the possibilities to reformulate your shrink wrap is something you should do regularly with your packaging supplier. New products come on the market all the time which may be a better fit for your product.
Audit Your Film Packaging Line
Perform a meticulous audit of your packaging line. Applying the principles of efficiency audits like value stream mapping (VSM) can help you to pinpoint areas for improvement. By understanding the exact time and place in your process where any efficiencies or bottlenecks occur, you can take corrective action to fix your weak spots.
Following all of these tips can help you to reduce the cost of your shrink wrap packaging expenses and improve efficiencies in your packaging process. For more tips on improving your packaging, contact an experienced contract packager like Peoria Production Solutions.
Midwest Packaging Provider Improves Your Bottom Line
Peoria Production Solutions, PPS, has been providing solutions to manufacturers and companies of all sizes for more than 80 years with a full line of customized, secondary services. We offer contract packaging, wrapping, bag filling, bottle labeling, kitting and assembly, sewing and fabrication, and more. Our experienced team can offer suggestions for your packaging that improve your efficiency and bottom line.
PPS is a leading provider of secondary packaging services to some of the largest companies including Fortune 100 manufacturers. We follow a strict quality policy as part of our ISO 9001:2015 registration for high-quality services with quick turnaround time. Contact us with any questions on improving your packaging for greater efficiency and cost savings.
Packaging is a lot more than wrapping your products for safe storage or delivery. Packaging has evolved into becoming part of the business plan, becoming particularly important to the marketing department. Packaging holds the ability to reflect your company’s brand, mission, and entire vision. Ignoring the impact that your packaging has on your consumers or customers can be a costly mistake.
So how do you incorporate packaging into your marketing plan? What are the most important considerations when integrating packaging with your marketing efforts? And most importantly, how can you enhance your approach to marketing and brand awareness through packaging?
How to Incorporate Packaging into Your Marketing Plan
It takes some planning to ensure that your packaging is leveraged to generate leads aligned with your marketing initiatives. Packaging can be an excellent marketing tool and may often be an afterthought when planning other marketing activities. Things like developing a website, maintaining social media connections, providing value to your audience through content such as white papers, brochures, or ads – these are all things we think about when we think about marketing.
Marketing with Eco-Friendly Packaging
While all of these things are an important part of successful marketing, considering your packaging is a critical aspect of your marketing plan and overall business plan. Packaging plays a direct role on your impact to the ecosystem, whether you can package your products in eco-friendly materials such as with more biodegradable paper as opposed to plastics. If this is important for your audience, it is important to relay that message on your packaging.
Increasing Brand Awareness with Packaging
How many times have you walked into a store, whether a convenience store, a department store or food market, and purchased something that you had no intention of buying when you walked in? For most people, this has happened too many times to count. The reason that consumers buy something they had no intention of buying, is almost entirely due to the packaging. Whether it is a catchy phrase, inviting colors, or something they might use later but feel like they just better grab it now, packaging can be the key that converts shoppers to buyers.
Peoria Production Solutions, PPS, is a leading provider of packaging solutions including secondary packaging solutions such as point-of-purchase, POP, display packaging, club and variety packaging, and labeling services. We have been providing contract packaging solutions for over 80 years, as a fully sustainable not for profit organization. PPS employs individuals with alternate abilities with a mission to provide financial and social stability and independence.
We follow strict quality policy as part of our ISO9001:2015 registration including a commitment to continual improvement and total customer satisfaction. We provide this through employee training and development programs, and lean manufacturing for maximum efficiency with exercises such as Value Stream Mapping, VSM, and cross-training to avoid bottlenecks in all work processes.
PPS understands the importance of high-quality packaging and the impact this has on our customers’ marketing initiatives. We can help you to evaluate the various packaging methods such as clamshell, variety packs, sample kits or other packaging options.
PPS is a leading Midwest supplier of secondary production services including contract packaging, shrink wrapping, labeling, contract sewing, auto bag filling, and other packaging services. We offer more than 80 years of experience, a state-of-the-art facility with the capacity to dedicate assembly lines to your work process and a skilled work staff. Contact us to learn how to improve your supply chain with contract packaging aligned with your marketing initiatives.
As 2021 came to a close and businesses started preparing for the new year, many companies want to know about new packaging trends for 2022. The global pandemic that began in early 2020 has changed the way that companies across many industries operate their business. Businesses today have new considerations that they did not have a couple of years ago such as how to manage new, internal work processes to keep products and employees safe and how to meet consumer demands with a disrupted supply chain.
Producing the same products can now cost companies more in order to address these challenges and then companies have to consider how to get their products on the market in the midst of a changing consumer landscape. Packaging and distribution is a huge part of manufacturing and production for any industry. Getting your goods to your destination, whether shipping e-commerce and delivering directly to consumers or stocking shelves at big box stores, might take a little more planning than before.
Businesses are looking to address these challenges with packaging trends for 2022 such as:
Packaging designed for e-commerce as well as stock shelves
Contract Packaging
Right now, many businesses are just concerned with keeping their assembly lines running. Whether due to a short staff or short supply, companies are restructuring and focusing on their core or niche manufacturing and how to stay profitable. An experienced contract packaging company like Peoria Production Solutions, PPS, offers just the solution many businesses need with affordable, timely, and high-quality contract packaging services.
Automated Packaging
Packaging automation is another trend that is helping companies to address the tight labor market. Incorporating automated packaging equipment and technologies helps to meet delivery demands and promotes a safer environment that helps reduce the spread of disease. PPS utilizes automated packaging equipment whenever possible such as auto filling and bagging equipment, digitized scales, and labeling, used in conjunction with our automated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
Our ERP system provides automated tracking of all customer supplied and packaging materials with full lot number traceability for complete accountability. Our modern, state-of-the-art facility provides the capacity needed to set up customized packaging processes to meet our customer needs with high quality, efficient contract packaging.
Transparent Packaging
Transparent packaging is a new trend that is becoming popular with consumers. Transparent, flexible pouches that feature a window give consumers a chance to see what is inside without opening the package. Transparent flexible packaging can be used in many different industries like the food industry for example to package baked goods including rolls and bread. Polybags are nice to protect magazines, mailers, and products like pillows and bedding. Whatever companies are selling, transparent packaging is a popular trend that is here to stay.
Packaging Designed for E-Commerce and Stock Shelves
With the change in the consumer landscape such as the increase in online ordering and e-commerce delivery, packaging today needs to do double duty. Packaging trends include designs that catch the consumer’s eye on a stock shelves and hold up to direct shipping and delivery. Some companies are getting creative with the less is more attitude, using large fonts, single and simple colors with direct marketing.
PPS offers the staff, equipment, the capacity, and experience to meet your contract packaging needs and incorporate the latest packaging trends. We offer a range of wrapping and packaging services including auto bagging, bag filling, bottle labeling, flexible packaging, palletizing services and more. Contact us to improve your supply chain with an experienced contract packaging company utilizing the latest technology to meet all the 2022 packaging trends.
