To calculate cost savings from bundle wrapping vs case packing, you need to know more about your intermediate packaging costs.
Most consumer goods companies put their retail ready products into chipboard or corrugate boxes for shipment to stores and warehouses. These boxes are put on pallets and stretch wrapped to secure them prior to shipment. Retailers and wholesalers as well as big box stores are increasingly concerned about the amount of material for recycling this generates. They are putting pressure on manufacturers to reduce the amount of intermediate packaging.
Simply reducing intermediate packaging brings savings to the manufacturer in reduced costs, but also to retailers in reduced waste disposal/recycling.
It is possible to put product that is overwrapped in film into a bundle wrapper using a slightly different film and achieve the savings without compromising the shelf ready appeal of the product.
Chipboard box
Bundle wrap offers an alternative to chipboard boxes, which are used inside of corrugate boxes for smaller items. Eliminating the chipboard boxes reduces the weight of the shipment and the size of the corrugate box. It also reduces the overall dimensions required for the corrugate box.
Savings in bundle wrapping come from
- price difference between film and chipboard
- weight reduction in transport costs from chipboard elimination
We have a customer using one machine to do both individual bundling for shelf ready products and then bundle wrapping for aggregating the shelf ready products into shipment sizes.
Corrugate Box
Because the ILW bundle wrapper can handle large sizes and collate larger shelf ready packages, there is an opportunity to reduce use of corrugate boxes.
Savings in bundle wrapping come from
- price difference between film or paper and corrugate
- weight reduction in transport
- more room on the pallet for product
Partially offsetting some of these savings is the need to provide corner structures on pallets to protect contents. However the savings can be considerable.
Call us at 413.732.4000 or email sales@packagemachinery.com to get the latest savings calculations.