Send them packing
Jan 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By W. Eric Martin
Packing is a simple task requiring little or no thought: You pack the goods, seal the box, and send it to the shipping department. Right? Not quite. This...
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Packing It In: What's New in Packaging Materials
Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Dana Dubbs
It's not always easy to find innovation in packing materials. After all, how many times can you reinvent the packing peanut or improve upon plastic air-pillow...
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 Filling the Void, Part Two
May 30, 2007 11:14 AM, By Sam Flanders
This is the second in a series on how to pack and fill parcels before shipping them. ...
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DMA: Proper Packaging Protects Bottom Line, Environment
May 23, 2007 9:46 AM, By Mark Del Franco
The Direct Marketing Association is pushing an eco-friendly initiative, and operations folks can help. Environmentally sound order fulfillment minimizes the amount of packaging materials ...
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Protect Your Product: The art and science of void fill
Nov 29, 2006 11:04 AM, By William R. Armstrong
Interior protective packaging helps products survive shipment from their point of manufacture to their ultimate point of use, we generally consider that these protective materials or systems will be designed to perform one or more of the following functions: cushioning, surface protection and void fill. ...
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Eco-Friendly Operations
Nov 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Christine Blank
Given that interest in global warming is heating up and that fuel costs have risen considerably in recent years, many companies are seeking ways to be...
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Match Game: The Packaging Version
Jul 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Bennett Voyles
Matching a product with a box should be a simple task. After all, people have been sending things in corrugated cardboard for 116 years, and the entire...
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Take Your Pick of Packing Options
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Karen M. Kroll
While the cardboard boxes, foam peanuts, and padded envelopes in which many marketers ship their orders don't exactly scream out high tech, a number of...
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That's a wrap
Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Mark Del Franco
If your company caters to gift-givers, providing gift-wrapping services can be a point of differentiation that wins you the sale from your competitors....
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Boxed In?
Jan 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Bennett Voyles
Getting a detail right, as opposed to almost right, can make all the difference for multichannel merchants. Picking the right shipping package is one...
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Peanuts Rule?
Jul 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Bennett Voyles
Five years ago Emory University physics professor Sidney Perkowitz estimated in his book Universal Foam that each year enough packing peanuts are manufactured...
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Analyzing Packaging Costs
Jul 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Choosing cost-efficient packaging is a complicated process that involves consideration of far more than just the cost of the materials alone. Labor, assembly,...
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Some Like It Hot
Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Bennett Voyles
We tend to think of evolution as a straight-line climb out of the swamp and into Starbucks. But sometimes it doesn't quite work out that way. Six hundred...
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