Seleccionar a un embalador del contrato

Los embaladores del contrato (o los co-embaladores) pueden ofrecer a experto, soluciones coste-eficientes, prácticas para ayudarle a iniciar, a organizar, a aerodinamizar o a mejorar sus operaciones de empaquetado o de empaquetado.

El secreto está encontrando a co-embalador que puede ofrecer los servicios especializados que usted necesita. Aquí están algunos puntos importantes a considerar al seleccionar un servicio de co-empaquetado:

• Determínese, tan de cerca como sea posible, la naturaleza y el alcance del problema que se tratará, y el problema o la tarea específico que usted quisiera que el co-embalador trabajara encendido.
• Consulte este Web site para encontrar a co-embaladores profesionales con la maestría específica que usted necesita.
• Identifique a co-embaladores con la maestría que usted requiere. Conduzca un gravamen preliminar de cada uno de los candidatos más prometedores y más apropiados.
• Si usted tiene preguntas sobre el fondo de un candidato, llame y haga preguntas. El personal dominante en un servicio de co-empaquetado profesional será feliz y orgulloso discutir las calificaciones de la compañía para solucionar sus problemas, la experiencia profesional del personal, referencias de la oferta, y provee cualquier información necesitada para ayudarle a tomar su decisión.
• Entrevista por el teléfono o en persona los candidatos más prometedores para verificar que su experiencia empareje sus necesidades.
• Descubra si el candidato es co-embalador activo, profesional. Sea seguro hacer cualquier pregunta que pudiera tener bering en las calificaciones de un embalador del contrato. ¿Qué tipos de proyectos la compañía ha trabajado encendido en el pasado? ¿Cuanto tiempo la compañía ha sido en funcionamiento? ¿Cómo grande es la compañía? ¿Con qué compañía del tamaño el embalador del contrato lo más frecuentemente trabaja? ¿Cómo los honorarios se determinan típicamente? ¿Cuántos de las cuentas del embalador del contrato son negocio de la repetición? ¿Es un miembro y activo en de la asociación de empaquetado del contrato?
• Satisfaga a personal dominante. Cerciórese de que le introduzcan a la gente del control de calidad y de las operaciones. El personal directivo y supervisor debe tener experiencia extensa en su industria con una comprensión de sus mercados y de un fondo fuerte de la ingeniería. The co-packager also should have training records for inspection by a prospective customer for the asking.
• Visit the facility to check out the housekeeping. A co-packager should be agreeable to letting you view the premises unless it would violate a confidentiality agreement.
• Once you’ve finished the interviewing process, request project proposals from the contract packagers whom you are seriously considering hiring. Make sure the final proposal(s) contain well-defined “Scope of Work,” “Services to be Provided,” and “Description of Fees” or “Fee Schedule” sections.
• Consider what is not in the proposals as well as what is: production rates, number of shifts, penalties for order changes or cancellation, storage for raw materials and finished product, and so forth.
• Resist the temptation to base your decision on price alone. A co-packager should ultimately act as an extension of your business. Often, what appears at first to be a more expensive contract packaging service will more than make up for the difference in the fees by saving you more money and solving your specific problems more efficiently.
• After you’ve fine-tuned details and reached an agreement on the co-packager’s proposal (particularly the “Scope of Work” section), sign a contract and/or issue an appropriate purchase order.
• Provide input, support and on-going interest to the co-packager thoughout the project. Bear in mind that you may be asking the contract packager to become familiar overnight with the knowledge of systems, technology and product quirks your company has had years to develop and work through.
• Be open to suggestions. Contract packagers are innovative, versatile and accustomed to efficiently working within narrow time frames. From experience, they often can suggest minor modifications that will save your company time and money.
• Be sure the co-packager knows and your organization understands that the contract packager is working for an executive within your company with sufficient authority to ensure that the contract packager has the full cooperation of everyone involved with the project.

If you are ready to hire a contract packager, please call us today!

Polyethylene Bagging Services

There are always new and outstanding opportunities for packaging retail products.

For example, an item in a poly bag with a header could be upgraded to a blister pack and garner a higher price point due to a greater perceived value. Or a product on a skin board could be packaged into a clamshell and, not only look better, but offer greater protection from damage.

Recently a major snack food manufacturer discovered that the printed polyethylene sack offered numerous benefits over the corrugate trays they had been using for their individual snack items. Not only did the printed sacks cost less than the printed trays but consumers loved the brighter and snappier graphics available on the plastic sacks and thus bought more product!

The brown bag with a handle on it has been around grocery and department stores for decades but the idea of delivering multiple single serve units within a sack just hadn?t caught on in the manufacturing arena. That is, not until high impact graphics were added and a manufacturing system that could be used to package large numbers of sacks within a single shift.

But how did this revolutionary sacking technology and solution evolve?

Aaron Thomas Company, working with the FORMOST Equipment Corporation, took basic bread bagging equipment and re-engineered the loading areas and in-feed designs to handle the loading of multiple single-serve corn and potato chip bags into pre-made printed sacks. The mechanisms necessary to automatically fill the sacks were then fine tuned to neatly pack the sacks with organized rows of product to reduce damage and enhance customer satisfaction.

Later, a process to automatically seal the bags with standard or double heat seals was incorporated as was in-line pass or fail check weighing validation, automatic bag labeling, and multi-wicket sack feeding. It took almost a year to incorporate all the modifications necessary to maximize production throughput and to minimize production costs.

This revolutionary packaging technology is now available in all three of our locations. It has even been co-opted by our client and is used now nationwide in each of their manufacturing facilities! This resulted in our being honored with the prestigious ?Contract Manufacturing Supplier of the Year? award in recognition of our efforts and accomplishments.

As you can see, packaging revolutions are challenging but not impossible if the right conditions are met. First, you need a strong vision of how you want your product packaged and the benefits it offers over existing packaging solutions. Second, you need a product that has the volume and longevity to justify the emotional buy-in and capital investment of your contract packaging partners. And finally, you need a contract packager that has the ability to think out side the box? or tray in this case? to get the job done.