The current ongoing economy crisis has led companies to a situation where all of them are trying to devise out a method for cutting costs in order to survive. The best possible way to come out of this situation is to cut costs in each department, from office supplies to hardware supplies, from warehousing to packaging. Companies working in areas where warehouse space is expensive needs to reduce their expense on packaging. Instead of persisting with the big and bulky protective packaging material, they should shift to space efficient skinny packaging.

Skinny packaging is space-efficient and compact. It allows you to pack a lot of protection into a little container

. Protective packaging materials available today in the market are almost 80 % more compact than traditional materials, such as pre-formed polyurethane or polystyrene cushions. In other words a company can achieve the same protection using up to 80% lesser materials. Using space efficient protective packaging, companies can store almost five times more material in the same storage area earlier occupied by bulky storage materials.

Some skinny packaging materials are versatile in nature that can be used to create universal packs and they are able to protect a variety of products. Companies can save additional space by reducing the number of packaging designs.

Companies or businesses working on "Just-in-Time" principles can literally do more with less. Space-efficient packaging helps them stacking sufficient materials at the packaging station to meet packaging goals without storing large and bulky inventory.

Skinny packaging helps companies reduce fixed costs by decreasing the amount of storage space and use of

material handling products. Other advantage that skinny packaging offers is tighter inventory control. It offers tighter control over how often the material is turned over. Skinny packs need less space than fat materials, so the company can decide how many packs it wants to store, opposed to how many it has the ability to store.

Space-efficient packaging has its environmental benefits too. By reducing the volume of packaging supplies, it dramatically reduces the volume of waste going into landfills. Apart from that, fewer tractor trailers are needed to transport the packaging materials. Some of the skinny packaging is 100 percent curbside recyclable, so it never goes to waste.

How one would come to know that skinny packaging is right for him? Here are some symptoms that would help you identify:
Storing packaging materials at a distant location is the main symptom. In case you are stockpiling materials in a remote location or an off-site warehouse, it is the right time to shift to a more space-efficient product. If you are spending a lot on labor on moving materials around, then it clearly indicates that you need to switch on to skinny packaging. If you find heap of pallet covers or pallet wraps around you then you need a skinnier protective packaging product.

 

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