The Packaging Only Matters If It Sells.. In a fast-paced world where you are lucky to get a consumer's attention for only a few seconds and where retail clerks are seldom available (and if they are they know very little), your product must be able to sell itself. The appropriate packaging can do that for you. Here's what your packaging must do:

Rethink Multi-Packing with a Third Party Logistics Provider Are you combining any of your manufactured finished goods into a secondary package? This is referred to as multi-packing. When you are short on space, labor, or capital, you still have options.

Leave Your Competition In the Dust Does it take you for ever to get a new product to the retail environment? Or perhaps you’ve got a target season and you need to start gearing up months before it’s here? Most companies spend so much time and energy planning, that any bump along the way will turn their projects into grueling events. This does not help the team involved to keep the interest to try again. Here are three tips to avoid that situation altogether and gain speed to market with your products:

Until It Is. In today's high-pressure business environment, with fewer people doing more work, we tend to focus only on what's urgent. The time-tested priority matrix and the time-tested risk matrix, when blended together, yeild clear guidance on where we should spend our time.

Understanding Business Pressures on Purchasers In our business, we get to spend a lot of time working with Purchasing Agents, Buyers, etc. Based on what we see, its a tough job. Here are some of the pressures that our customers are under.