Packaging Audit

Do you know if your packaging is using the optimum material? Does it seem like you have a lot of wasted packaging? Are you experiencing a high volume of returns? Maybe you know your packaging isn’t performing as well as it should but don’t know where to start fixing it?

Maybe you just wish there was someone who could handle this for you?

If any of the above is true, your business could benefit from a full packaging audit. Working in partnership with GWP Group, we’ll help you identify inefficiencies and cost savings at all stages of your packaging process alongside proven, actionable ways to improve it.

Best of all?

The packaging analysis and evaluation service is completely free and with no obligation.

The first stage of any packaging audit is a consultation with an experienced packaging professional, whom GWP will assign to your business throughout the process.

This typically involves visiting your production facilities or logistics centres to gain an in-depth understanding of your business’s challenges. From analysing your existing packaging supplies, product range, storage facilities, and packing processes, this first stage usually highlights several ways to improve your operations.

Following this, a thorough analysis of your usage patterns, overall volumes and fluctuations in demand, and design and material specifications allows for creating a detailed proposal highlighting the opportunities for your business.

In essence, our packaging experts work in partnership with you to help develop the most efficient packaging procurement and delivery process for your business.

A packaging audit takes a holistic look at your packaging processes and highlights any opportunities for improvement. However, from conducting a large number of audits alongside companies like yours, the following factors/options tend to yield the greatest results. These form part, but not all, of our tried and trusted packaging audit checklist.

Whilst not all of these may be relevant to your business or industry sector—you may even have already analysed or implemented some of them yourself—they allow you to be certain that your packaging is as efficient and cost-effective as possible.

Ensuring that the most appropriate grade of material is selected (frequently, it isn’t) can reduce storage and transit costs alongside the cost of the raw materials themselves. See here for more info.

Even small reductions in packing times can lead to noticeable improvements in staff productivity and output. Specific packaging designs can help you realise the benefits of these improvements. A Packaging process optimisation audit can have a surprisingly significant impact.

A simple change to the design or structure of packaging can reduce costs through more efficient use of material, easier manufacturing processes and even storage and transit costs. Find out more here.

Combining slow-moving lines or reducing the overall inventory makes managing your packaging stocks easier, and you can also benefit from economies of scale. Find out more by clicking here.

Safe storage of packaging can take up large areas of your warehouse or fulfilment centre. Space that you could use more productively. A vendor-managed inventory system reduces the need for storage space and its associated costs and results in less administration. Find out how here.

Transit damage is the hidden cost of off-the-shelf packaging. It can lead to high return rates, increased costs for replacing items, and can even impact your brand perception and repeat sales. But a transit packaging audit can resolve this. Find out how to prevent damage here.

Secondary packaging, such as tapes and void fill, can lengthen packing times and significantly increase costs. Often, you can eliminate these products and processes altogether. Read more here.

A tailored proposal from GWP, following a full packaging audit,  can help you meet your business objectives.

This may be minimising waste, improving processes, rationalising the range of packaging products used, managing stock, or simply reducing the overall cost of your transit packaging.

Once your ongoing targets and requirements are defined, GWP Group can help you implement these through a full value engineering programme, intelligent design, quality manufacturing and the highest level of support.

GWP Group’s service to your business is both flexible and scalable.

We respond to your changing business needs quickly, and you can be confident that your business benefits from the most suitable products and solutions. And with no compromise on quality either.