In today’s highly competitive business environment, organisations continuously seek ways to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction. One area that is often overlooked, yet delivers significant operational benefits, is packaging, and for us, most specifically corrugated packaging.
Always a popular choice, it can go way beyond simply protecting products during transportation. Well-designed corrugated packaging can streamline operations, improve supply chain performance, and contribute to overall business success.
Here are some of the most common ways in which corrugated packaging solutions from Boxshop can assist.
Enhance supply chain efficiency
A custom-designed corrugated packaging solution reduces product movement during transport, minimising damage rates and associated replacement costs. Damaged products create unnecessary operational burdens including customer complaints, returns management, reprocessing, and additional shipping expenses.
Packaging can also incorporate printed tracking information, barcodes, QR codes, and product identification details. These features improve inventory visibility and enable faster scanning throughout distribution centres and logistics networks.
By reducing errors and improving traceability, corrugated packaging helps organisations achieve greater supply chain accuracy and performance, reducing operational challenges, packing and fulfilment time.
Even a few seconds per order can result in a substantial increase in productivity gains.
Maximise transport and logistics
When designed correctly, corrugated packaging can bring operational benefits to transport and logistics functions. Optimised corrugated packaging also enables better vehicle utilisation and this can be achieved by allowing our design team to review existing designs and create new ones which ensure the best utilisation of space both within the pack and the vehicle increasing load density.
Corrugated packaging can be much lighter than other packaging materials such as metal and wood and reducing packaging weight can bring cost benefits in relation to shipping costs. In industries such as e-commerce, where thousands of individual parcels may be shipped each day, even small weight reductions can generate substantial annual savings.
Improve warehouse efficiency
Corrugated packaging can help to improve storage density, handling efficiency and location of product.
Packaging that is suitable for the task in hand can assist with easy stacking while maintaining structural integrity. Strong stacking performance reduces the risk of product damage and improves warehouse safety. As a result, businesses can hold more inventory within the same footprint without increasing operational risk.
As the most sustainable packaging material available it also supports businesses achieve their sustainability goals in their warehouse operations.
Our corrugated packaging contains a high proportion of recycled fibre and is also fully recyclable by both business and end user consumers.
This helps to minimise the amount of waste generated and can help with the efficient running of warehouses.
Capitalise on design
Good packaging design can be pivotal to the success of a business by reducing fresh air shipping, reducing product damage, reducing packing times, reducing packaging components, maximising storage space and shipping, improve palletisation and remove the need for any void fill.
Our award-winning design team carefully analyse the product and its dimensions, understand transport and storage requirements and create designs to ensure the packaging correctly supports the operational efficiencies of the business at all points in the supply chain.
Working with Boxshop to ensure your packaging works hard for your business means…
• A comprehensive packaging audit will be undertaken to understand success, challenges and areas for improvement
• Customised solutions are designed to align with operational objectives
• Regular packaging reviews take place to ensure your packaging evolves with your business
Kenny Edwards, Managing Director, Boxshop concluded; “When corrugated packaging is strategically designed and optimised it is a very powerful tool for maximising operational efficiencies throughout the supply chain.
From product packing right through the customer opening the packaging; the benefits of good packaging can add real value to a business. Leveraging the benefits of our knowledge and experience as an independent corrugated packaging designer and manufacturer can help businesses remain competitive in busy market sectors.”
