SubscribeWe Offer: Packaging innovation and development - including project management. Identification and delivery of effective cost reduction and sourcing strategies. Speed-to-market. Establishing and optimising teams and processes. Packaging design and specification software. BRC-IOP Packaging Standard and Hygiene consultancy.
Packaging Innovation and Development
Whether you are looking for a strategic input and fresh approach to your existing ways or perhaps you do not have the internal skills or resource to manage and drive packaging development we are able to help you.
We provide a complete service from idea generation, through development of packaging options and technical complexities, specification, sourcing and commercial aspects, samples and management of trials and technical and consumer testing and project management through to on-shelf launch.
We are able to either provide a full service or to tailor elements from the menu to deliver a service that dovetails with your own abilities.
You will benefit from innovative packaging developments to promote your products and brands.
Identification and Delivery of Effective Cost Reduction and Sourcing Strategies
We are able to help you in identifying and delivering effective packaging related cost-savings, taking a total picture approach. We can optimise specifications to ensure you are using appropriate specifications for the job and where appropriate we can rationalise duplication and complexity of specifications and formats to ensure you simplify your operations and drive economies of scale.
We can manage the sourcing and tender processes for you to deliver cost saving and our knowledge of the supply base and supplier approvals will ensure optimised sourcing strategies for your organisation.
Speed to Market
How can a Formula 1 team develop and launch a car - far more complex than most packaging - in a season? Through analysis of the F1, automotive and aerospace industries, we have identified the enabling technologies and processes that allow rapid development. By applying the relevant techniques to packaging development packaging projects can develop faster, with lower cost and less re-work, delay and risk.
Rapid development techniques allow the design and development of 3-Dimensional packaging and assemblies using digital CAD data. Once designs are approved on-screen a prototype model can be made within hours. The prototypes are working models - used to check fit, function, compatibility with production and filling lines and market research. The design can quickly be perfected at low cost.
Very early in the process you have a fully agreed design - no more judging designs from a paper technical drawing only to wait weeks and spend £thousands on tooling to then find the design is not ideal and face re-work or live with second best. Very quickly you are able to proceed with confidence into rapid scale-up or production tooling to cut time-to-market, costs and increase the certainty of NPD success. In addition it opens up the arena of custom designs for lower volumes.
We can manage this process and provide samples for you.
We can also advise on additional techniques to speed graphic design management as well as project management to ensure swift processing with the correct levels of control.
Establishing and Optimising Processes and Teams
We can benchmark, review and set up or enhance existing processes - such as the New Product Development Process - to bring this to world class standard ensuring it is effective and streamlined but with the right controls at the right places and the right people involved at the key points. Through reviewing the steps you take we can also often enable you to cut time to market, especially if the above rapid development technologies are also involved.
In parallel if you are setting up or reviewing a new Packaging development or buying team we can review how you manage and control all aspects of packaging and help to understand the skills and competencies required and whether these are best located internally or sourced externally. We help companies in suggesting optimal structures for teams and functions - number of roles, skills, roles and responsibilities, location of the team within the organisation, reporting structures etc.
Packaging Design and Specification Software
Whether you need a standard system or tailored specification and document control system to design and control your packaging specifications, technical drawings, bills of materials, pallet plans and link with SAP systems we can provide the ideal solution together with full technical back-up and training plans to meet your needs.
BRC-IOP Packaging Standard Consultancy
We are able to help packaging suppliers by providing BRC-IOP Packaging Standard consultancy to help you to attain the level of performance required to achieve BRC-IOP Packaging Standard accreditation - key where retailers now stipulate their own brand products should have packaging supplied by accredited companies. We can also help with Hygiene training.
We also provide help in other areas so if your needs are not listed here please do contact us to discuss how we can help provide a solution for you.