In the field of product packaging, efficiency and sustainability get top billing these days. With new pricing policies at FedEx and UPS causing angst at DCs, packaging is a new frontier of attention and innovation. Rob Kaszubowski, manager of packaging optimization at Chainalytics, offers four areas to focus on: Cartonization: With online sales soaring, the endless variety of products available online, and FedEx and UPS imposing new dimensional weight pricing, cartonization is a huge issue. Shippers face the challenge of combining products into a single shipping container optimized to minimize material costs, avoid dimensional weight penalties, and protect products from damage. Cartonization is a process or tool that selects the optimum case for transporting products. Getting this right keeps material and shipping costs down -and customers happy.
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