Packaging Inventory Management

One of the key services your business can take advantage of when working with GWP Group is a fully managed inventory.

The packaging inventory management service was originally created due to an ever increasing number of companies like yours feeling the cost pressures of maintaining large warehouses, struggling to cope with fluctuations in demand, not having enough storage space for packaging, or just facing the difficulties inherent with the management of large inventories of varying packaging items.

In essence, your packaging inventory will be fully managed by GWP.

The advanced stock management system – unique to GWP – is configured and tailored to your specific requirements.

It accurately monitors, anticipates and meets the fluctuating requirements, keeping your packaging within pre-agreed maximum and minimum stock levels.

As well as reducing your stock holding, it also allows deliveries from stock on vastly reduced lead times.

On entering into a service level agreement with GWP, we will manage the entire production, storage and distribution processes of your packaging with minimal further input from you.

With the manufacturing programme carefully managed, finished packaging products are stored in a clean, safe environment until required.

Your job is effectively calling off the stock as required through a secure online service.

This system, accessible through any web browser, 24 hours a day, is both easy to use and also tailored to your requirements. Besides this, it automatically allows for earliest delivery dates, order quantities and other critical information to be calculated.

By monitoring and evaluating historical order patterns, GWP Packaging are also able to predict usage and manage stock levels to suit.

This ensures that by utilising our packaging inventory management service (also referred to as KanBan, or a vendor managed inventory – VMI –  depending on industry), you will get the packaging that you need, when you need it, with the minimum of fuss.

Whilst the Inventory Management service has proven extremely useful to and popular with companies using significant volumes of corrugated cardboard packaging, the unique way in which GWP Group is structured ensures that the service is available across a much wider range of products.

As such, should you use corrugated, protective cases, foam inserts or end caps, Correx® handling products, POS or any combination of these, you can let GWP Group manage your entire stock of packaging products.

This even extends to holding stock of your commonly used sundries such as tapes and labels (even if we do not manufacture these ourselves) and, for sheet plants, stock of both coated and uncoated board.

On the subject of stock holding, one of the reasons this Just in Time packaging service is so widely adopted is the flexibility it offers.

All of the GWP divisions keep a stock holding of raw materials that allows for sudden spikes in demand to be met without any disruption to your business.

Your Just In Time delivery and inventory management service is further enhanced by a bespoke on-line ordering system, created to ensure you receive exactly what you require, precisely when you need it.

The system has been designed with a large degree of flexibility to your business to schedule the delivery of multiple products to several delivery addresses within a very user-friendly interface.

The system also calculates the earliest possible delivery dates, can automatically send out order confirmations and delivery notes, allows for you to add specific requirements to your orders, and cuts down the amount of administration and paperwork normally associated with placing conventional orders.

Many businesses like yours that are already using the system comment that their favourite aspect of the system is its’ clear interface and simplicity. It basically does everything required in the quickest, easiest and most efficient way possible.

It is also linked directly to GWP’s manufacturing systems, ensuring the most efficient and reliable processing of new orders. And as with the JIT stock management service, the greatest benefit is realised through its customisation to your specific requirements.

For further information on how you can benefit from a full Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), please get in touch to discuss your specific requirements.