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Success Stories / Package Optimization

Retail client - Overall Savings of 21%

  • Corrugate cost savings: 25%
    • Annual savings of >10 million square feet of corrugated.
    • Estimated annual reduction of 398 trucks (more than 1.5 trucks per day taken off the road!
  • Reduced labor costs by 5%
  • Reduced dunnage costs by 57%
  • Reduced freight costs by 13%

Food Manufacturer - Overall Savings of 8.5%

  • Reduce corrugated costs by 2.7%
  • Reduce transfer freight costs by 5.0%
  • Reduced shipping freight costs by 5.0%
  • Reduced handling (labor) costs by 8.5%

Shoe Distributor - Overall savings of 24.5%

  • Reduced packaging costs by 68.9%
  • Reduced domestic freight costs by 26.7%
  • Reduced import freight costs by 4.9%
  • Reduced warehousing costs by 22.2%
  • Reduced handling (labor) costs by 17.2%
  • Reduced pallet costs by 22.7%

Science Products Distributor

  • Reduced cases packed by 9%
  • Reduced packaging costs by 18%
  • Reduced shipping cube by 9%
  • Increased shipping density by 9%

Mail Order Company - Overall annual savings of 17.5%

  • Reduced corrugated costs by 18.2%
  • Reduced dunnage costs by 23.0%
  • Reduced overall freight costs by 14.0%

E-Commerce Company - Overall annual savings of 13.4%

  • Total boxes shipped reduced by 10%
  • Cube utilization improved by 15%
  • Shipping density increased by 13.5%
  • Carton material and filler cost reduced by 27.2%
  • Packing labor cost reduced by 10%
  • Freight cost reduced by 12.6%

 

 
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