Transpak Recommends Outsourcing Packaging Materials

Transpak offers its customers the provision of packaging materials with ‘Just in time’ delivery. This ties up less capital and creates space for other activities at the customers’ premises. The increasing e-commerce has further boosted the demand for packaging.

(Solms) Always having sufficient packaging materials in stock costs companies a lot of storage space and money. The trend is therefore towards economical packaging as a service, as TransPak offers with warehousing and ‘Just-in-Time’ delivery of packaging materials.

Both manufacturing and trading companies have always been subject to seasonal fluctuations when it comes to stocking goods and packaging materials. Managing directors, logistics, and purchasing managers know this from years of experience. However, sometimes external influences can also exacerbate the storage problems for packaging materials. Depending on the industry, the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, has led to more goods being ordered online, often requiring even more packaging materials.

Packaging Takes Up a Lot of Storage Space

But the year-end business is already a challenge for many companies, especially regarding packaging issues. In autumn and at Christmas, businesses see a significant increase in activity, just like every year. This means that for this one season, as much storage capacity for packaging materials must be freed up as is usually required for the entire year. Moving entire departments just for the year-end business to make room for packaging would be far too cumbersome and expensive. The greater the need for storage capacity, the higher the capital tie-up, and the more funds are lacking for investments and flexibility, for example, for expanding production or developing innovations.

Storing Materials is Significantly Cheaper

Having packaging materials stored or outsourced, as TransPak offers as a service, is therefore not only space-saving but also more efficient and significantly cheaper, especially for trading companies where storage accounts for 60 to 80 percent of logistics costs. How much of that is attributed to packaging materials depends, among other things, on the goods to be shipped. Outsourcing packaging materials therefore offers many advantages. These include:

– Less capital tie-up and more cash flow
– More money for investment
– More space for production and new employees
– More optimization potential for shipping processes
– More storage capacity for other goods

In addition to the mentioned advantages of outsourcing packaging materials, companies can focus more on their core business.

More Room for Investment and New Employees

TransPak offers a whole range of services related to packaging materials in addition to warehousing. This includes consulting, the individual development and packaging of various packaging materials, as well as machine services for optimizing shipping processes. Some customers opt for a complete package of services in the field of packaging materials in the form of framework agreements. For example, a customer, a medium-sized company from the optics industry, was able to expand its Kardex storage for frequently needed small parts by outsourcing the relevant materials without having to build a new warehouse.

Packaging Materials Delivered ‘Just in Time’

Many new customers found themselves forced during the Corona crisis to shift their previously stationary business more towards e-commerce and did not know where to put all the packaging materials. TransPak convinced them because the company has locations including warehouses across Germany and delivers the required packaging materials ‘Just in Time’ or even by express when needed.

Conclusion: With TransPak’s warehousing services, B2B customers save a lot of storage capacity that would otherwise be needed for packaging materials. They thus gain space for production or for A- and B-goods, have more cash flow and more capital, and thus more room for other profitable investments.

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