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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The Business of Packaging | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging

By: David Roberge
August 28th, 2015

Are you Overlooking this Critical Cost? When you are costing out your projects, how often do you remember to factor in Opportunity Costs? Do you know what Packaging Opportunity Costs are? We've referred to them a few times in our weekly releases. Here are some thoughts on opportunity costs.

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

By: David Roberge
August 20th, 2015

Better yet, why buy another one? One of the significant advantages to outsourcing is preservation of capital. In many cases, we've got the equipment available to provide a final packaged product that sells itself.

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

By: David Roberge
August 13th, 2015

The Price is the Price is the Price, unless it's A-La-Carte. Traditionally, people price their product assuming that everyone needs everything. Rarely do we find that all of our customers need the same things. The actual price of a product is dependent on many aspects of the purchase.

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance | Investment

By: David Roberge
August 6th, 2015

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.

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Equipment | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support

By: David Roberge
July 30th, 2015

"Im sorry, all orders for delivery yesterday must be placed by noon today."

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Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Investment

By: David Roberge
July 23rd, 2015

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.