Take a Closer Look at Returnable Packaging

So how robust do you believe your supply chain is and how are you looking to manage and increase your capacity in the growing global market?

I will be taking part in a panel discussion on the capacity and robustness of supply chains at the Automotive Supply Chain Congress in Liverpool.

Over the next two days the executives from the leading automotive manufacturers will be attending the annual conference to discuss where their supply chain is heading and how they can keep up the growing market, returnablepackaging being one key area of interest.

On the panel there will be Jonathan DiMambo from Bentley Motors, Richard Horswill from Stena Freight, Cengiz Kabatepe of Ford Otosan, Timothy Nickel of Surgere, Mike Silvio from Cooper Standard Automotive and Stewart Robertson from DHL.

With today’s demand and capacity restraints due to fast and accelerated movements through the supply chain no one has time to waste with waste.

The procurement of one trip packaging and disposal is completely unnecessary when the offer of hiring/ renting quality returnable solutions on a one trip basis is available regionally and globally.

The automotive industry is surprisingly unaware of the opportunities that returnable packaging presents to their supply chain. The amount of options that are now available to OEM’s and tier suppliers are endless.

Development of the returnable packaging market and the emergence of new companies now provide OEM’s and tier suppliers with solutions that they could only dream of previously.

Returnable packaging solutions can help solve your issues around capacity and robustness in order to improve the performance of your supply chain. This one simple change can transform your whole supply chain.

Intercontinental supply chains have grown significantly and will grow even further in the future, the need for more components required in more locations and more often is rocketing. Bringing costs down and improving capacity utilisation is integral, returnable packaging using plastic improves cubed utilisation allowing you to ship larger quantities for lower costs.

With the speed of supply chains growing and quality standards going in the same direction there is little room for error, plastic returnable solutions are built to ensure quality and reduce damages.

Reducing damages and ensuring the quality of components is high on the agenda, using returnable packaging solutions can reduce these risks associated with the expendable packaging such as cardboard. By reducing the risk of damaged goods this in turn reduces the costs and aids the speed of the supply chain.

With the progress that has been made by the returnable packaging industry it is now easier than ever to justify the shift to using these new methods as opposed to using old and inefficient packaging solutions.

Now, the automotive industry has all of their needs catered for in terms of packaging. All they need to do is try returnable packaging for themselves to experience the benefits first hand.