The Flexible Packaging Blog

Reviews, trends, and tips covering all things flexible packaging to protect your products and your bottom line.

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Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging

By: David Roberge
May 15th, 2015

There are four bilion stars larger than the sun, imagine that... God only knows there's enough outer space, but why do we keep running out of production space? There is never enough space!

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Packaging Materials | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance

By: Jarrod Dizazzo, Vice President
May 8th, 2015

When you begin a packaging job, you know how much each piece “should” cost you and what your margins “should” be. At the end of the run, after all the labor has been employed, the materials have been used, and the time to correct problems has passed, you take a look to make sure you costed the job correctly. How many times are you surprised at the outcome? More often than not, what you end up spending is a lot more than you projected..

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Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging

By: David Roberge
March 18th, 2015

It's More Expensive Than I Can Do It For In-House Every once in a while we hear this. The question is, is it really? How did you arrive at your internal cost?

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Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging

By: Jarrod Dizazzo, Vice President
March 25th, 2014

We have all heard of the FSMA, FIFO, FEFO, and more recently SDS. Or have we?

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Equipment | The Business of Packaging | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance

By: David Roberge
September 10th, 2013

Substantially reduce cost and increase production output with Automation If you are responsible for some or all of a manufacturing operation, you know metrics are important in determining if you are running at peak efficiency. The introduction of automation to a packaging production line can have a substantial (positive) impact both of output and labor costs. A measure that should be part of your labor review is line realization.