The recent pandemic has accelerated dramatic shifts in shopping behaviour for B2B and B2C shoppers – pushing manufacturers to ship individual products directly to customers and end users. All the signs are there: These new shopping behaviours are here to stay. And yet, many manufacturers are still packing their products as if nothing has changed.
Sound familiar?
If your fulfilment operation is shipping individual products using packaging designs intended for pallets, you’re likely overlooking hidden costs in freight, labour, damage, and more. Worse, you risk being left behind as online shopping behaviours – and high expectations – continue to accelerate.
Ready to learn how to optimise your fulfilment operation for parcel shipments?
Changes are coming. Is your operation ready for what’s ahead?
Manufacturers that are comfortable with palletised shipments may struggle with the new challenges of parcel fulfilment. Increased damage rates, slow throughput speeds, return logistics and high shipping costs are common.
It makes sense. For manufacturers, products that were previously only shipped in bulk on pallets (think: toilets, car parts, large-format electronics) are now also being shipped individually, directly to shoppers.
As the global leader in protective packaging design, automation and fulfilment optimisation, we’ve got you covered.
This guide will take you through:
- The five challenges manufacturers face when adding or switching to parcel shipments
- Real stories of how manufacturers are structuring their fulfilment operations to accommodate parcels
- Fulfilment and packaging tips from our packaging professionals
- An inside look at the packaging design process, and why a product should be packed differently for parcel vs pallet shipments
