Choosing the Right Material Pays Huge Dividends
Challenge
People are busy. There’s no doubting that. When you are running short on time, you focus on the problems that demand your immediate attention, while everything else gets put on the back burner. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it, as they say. The problem with this mindset is that technology and material have changed a lot in the last 15 years, which is the last time one of our new customers performed a complete audit of their packaging. They had inherited a spec and just kept ordering it. And on first glance, everything was running smoothly, every one from purchasing to operations was happy. But we wanted to take a deeper look…
Solution
As a part of our process, we utilize our ISTA testing lab to perform complete packaging analysis. By running the packaging through a compression test we were able to tell that the box was greatly overbuilt compared to what was required. Our lab worked with our packaging designers to adjust the board grades to what their application needed today – not 15 years ago. By using actual data to make informed decisions, we made their packaging with what we knew would work – not just our best guess.
Results
Same protection. Same performance. 11% cost savings. This equated to $500,000 at the annual volumes they were ordering. By reducing the material weight to align with what was actually needed, we provided a real savings opportunity, while eliminating unnecessary waste.
$500
Thousand in Savings
11%
Cost Reduction
