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Headquartered in Salt Lake City,
Packsize is a global leader in ‘On
Demand Packaging’ for businesses
with complex corrugated packaging
needs. With business customers in 25
countries, Packsize has operations in
North America, Scandinavia, Germany,
the United Kingdom, France and Poland.
On Demand
Packsize resolves inventory and shipping
complexities by giving the customer
the ability to create a custom-sized
box for every order. This efficient and
cost-effective packaging system results
in significant process improvements
and yields total savings of up to 20%.
By optimizing order size, material
requirements, and packaging throughput,
the Packsize just-in-time system drives
broad inventory management savings
by quickly responding to varying
product size and shipping challenges. A
leading sustainable business practice,
On Demand Packaging® results in lower
packaging inventory, less waste, lower
shipping costs, decreased damage rates,
and increased customer satisfaction.
On average, products sold on the
internet are shipped in boxes that are
35% too large. That wastes corrugate
and increases freight volume.
Additionally, petroleum-based fillers
are often used to fill the void in the box.
On Demand Packaging® creates the
smallest possible box for each order
and dramatically reduces the demand
for fillers.
Centralizing the packaging function,
Packsize On Demand Packaging®
improves the old ‘store and retrieve’
corrugated packaging process
by placing a high speed package
converting machine with a very
small footprint together with a stack
of corrugated material on the pack
line. This gives workers the ability to
instantly create a box that matches the
product to be packaged and shipped.
One Packsize corrugated converting
machine (EM7) is capable of converting
up to 300 boxes an hour in the
following flute options: E, B, C, BC and
EB. At this month’s Logistica Utrecht
show Packsize will be presenting live
the On Demand Packaging® System on
stand 09.C120.
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well as box designs,” said Moonen.
“The overall idea behind each of our
decisions over the course of the project
was to deliver undamaged products to
our customers.”
Boston Scientific integrated three
Packsize converting machines with
its WMS. “Now, with each order, the
system calculates the perfect box
dimension and sends this data to
one of the Packsize machines, which
then cuts the required box. Another
crucial deciding factor for us was that
the packaging system we selected
met our time requirements— Packsize
excelled here as well. Packsize helped
us accomplish our strategic goals
by reducing our shipping damages
and saving us freight, cardboard, and
storage costs,” said Moonen. “Certainly
the Packsize implementation was
an important element in our overall
operations strategy, and continues to
support our advancements toward a
leaner one piece workflow, not only
in Kerkrade, but in other distribution
centers around the globe as well.”
Scientific case
With more than 3500 boxes containing
about 28,000 products shipped
each day from Boston Scientific
International’s distribution centre in
Kerkrade, Netherlands, the company’s
annual corrugated packaging demand
is enormous. As such, the leading
medical device company recently
examined their distribution process to
improve efficiencies.
Boston Scientific’s extensive custom-
sized medical device offering forced
the company to stock more than
50 different box sizes and required
that they be stocked five months
in advance of production. “Our
box inventory took up significant
warehouse space,” said Frank Moonen,
director of operations at Boston
Scientific, Kerkrade. “And despite
this broad inventory, we never had
the right-sized box, forcing us to ship
a lot of air and additional packaging
fillers.” Moonen also associates other
problems with shipping in boxes that
are too large. “We faced shipping
damages and high freight charges as
well,” he said.
In seeking a better process, the
company’s greatest concern was
packaging quality. “We need high
quality boxes to ship our most sensitive
products. The boxes we used were
made of very solid cardboard, required
no taping and were characterized
by their high stability.” Moonen took
note of the Packsize On Demand
Packaging
TM
. “We tested a great
number of corrugated qualities as
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Logistics Business Magazine | November 2015
PACKAGING AUTOMATION