Packaging
Faced with a rising market, how can you generate savings?
The purchase, management and budgeting of packaging play an important role in the life of some companies. Whether for products manufactured in-house or goods purchased from suppliers, their use also involves organizing the flow of orders, transport and storage.
Our Packaging offer therefore covers all the expenses involved in the life-cycle of a package, from design to delivery, including logistics. The aim of our work is to study all processes in order to rationalize costs, and includes the study of materials, organizational processes and the technology used.
15 to 35%
savings per job
95%
of our recommendations are followed by operational support
2500
suppliers in our database
Packaging, a multifunctional medium
Think technical quality as well as aesthetics
Packaging is used to package and sell, as well as to protect and transport. It’s the first image a customer has of a product when buying or delivering it, hence the importance of packaging, which complements the qualities of solidity and practicality.
The technical and aesthetic specificities required are not the same for primary, secondary or tertiary packaging. It is therefore important to consider the qualities of each type of packaging, in order to identify specific needs and control costs.
A product dependent on the cost of materials
The materials used to manufacture packaging are subject to global fluctuations in raw material costs and longer lead times. These two factors need to be monitored to keep control over the cost of packaging used by the company. As an expenditure item dependent on a variable context, packaging has become strategic.
To keep packaging-related expenses under control, you need to turn to the various players in the field – cardboard manufacturers, printers and converters – in order to :
- find the most competitive prices;
- determine the technical specifications of the packaging that companies need;
- rethink the packaging process, in whole or in part.
A comprehensive approach to improving your packaging management
Materials, processes, technologies: we cover the entire packaging purchasing chain. Thanks to our global operational approach, you get the best out of your investments.
Our recommendations for packaging optimization
From packaging design, which determines costs, choice of raw materials, mechanical qualities, manufacturing, logistics and recycling, the entire value chain and life cycle can be analyzed and optimized.
Financial
Techniques
Organizational
Financial
Faced with fluctuating raw material costs and a lack of time to explore the market, the choice of suppliers is often made by default, by habit, by ease, or even in a hurry. Our consultants’ exploration of the packaging market enables us to :
- highlight a target price;
- redefine a supplier portfolio;
- spend better rather than spend less;
- review the ordering process and logistics.
Techniques
Savings are also based on solutions in the field. The technical offer is constantly evolving, but day-to-day production management takes up all the time of our customers’ operators. This prevents or delays the research and implementation of new technical solutions. To fully master the production of the packaging a company needs, it is necessary to rethink several factors, considering in particular whether to :
- mechanize or remain manual;
- change the composition of carton packs while retaining their specific technical features (grammage, fluting, printing, automatic or semi-automatic bottoms, etc.);
- working with a dealer or manufacturer</strong;
- choose a single supplier or complementary service providers.
Organizational
Keeping annual costs under control also involves good management of order and stock flows. An unchallenged organization can lead to significant hidden costs, n particular :
- work habits that have gradually become the norm;
- emergency production management.
Our consultants work alongside you to make recommendations in line with your production and purchasing requirements. We look for solutions adapted to your production and logistics needs, for an equivalent service. With the fresh eye of an outside observer, we seek to define the right needs and review the processes by involving all the players in your production chain.
Financial
- highlight a target price;
- redefine a supplier portfolio;
- spend better rather than spend less;
- review the ordering process and logistics.
Techniques
- mechanize or remain manual;
- change the composition of carton packs while retaining their specific technical features (grammage, fluting, printing, automatic or semi-automatic bottoms, etc.);
- working with a dealer or manufacturer</strong;
- choose a single supplier or complementary service providers.
Organizational
- work habits that have gradually become the norm;
- emergency production management.
Our consultants work alongside you to make recommendations in line with your production and purchasing requirements. We look for solutions adapted to your production and logistics needs, for an equivalent service. With the fresh eye of an outside observer, we seek to define the right needs and review the processes by involving all the players in your production chain.
A proven methodology
Full support, from initial discussions to final validation through production tests.
STEP 1: Mapping the company's packaging needs
This first step is essential to understand our customers' operating environment. We conduct interviews with all the profiles concerned by the mission, and build a map of packaging purchased over the last 12 months, segmented by technical family, by reference, by price, etc., in order to have a complete view of expenditure as well as operating methods.
STEP 2: Tender and strategy
This analysis enables us to propose a strategy to be implemented, then to draw up the associated call for tenders and manage it in its entirety.
STEP 3: Implementation of proposals
The final stage involves the implementation of financial, technical and organizational proposals. We accompany (including production line testing) the implementation of the recommendations chosen and validated by our customers.
Operational support through to final validation by production testing
Our fields of expertise
Our experts are used to optimizing the main packaging families:
- Corrugated cardboard packaging;
- Solid board packaging;
- Plastic packaging;
- Shrink films and sleeves;
- Luxury packaging;
- Cushioning products;
- Paper bags;
- Plastic bags;
- Tags;
- Pharmaceutical leaflets.
Even a simple cardboard box can be a source of savings.
In the extract opposite, Alain Abitbol, General Manager of Daco France, talks about a mission Emballages with Cristal Decisions, the various people involved, and the good results obtained.
Our expert: Dominique Marghieri
Dominique Marghieri has spent his entire professional life in the graphic arts, working for 10 years in an advertising agency as a layout artist, then roughman and assistant art director.
At the request of one of his agency bosses, he switched to manufacturing and purchasing. For 11 years, he worked in this capacity for agencies, advertisers and central purchasing agencies.
Thanks to this rare double experience, he was hired as a consultant in 2003, a position he still holds at Cristal Decisions.
All expenses relating to design, prepress and photoengraving, printing, finishing and logistics can be studied for all printed communication, POP and packaging.
Discover all our offers
For all our areas of expertise, we map the services in place, identify your needs and support you in implementing all the levers proposed by our teams and validated by you.
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