Selecting A Contract Packager选择一个合同包装

September 7, 2008 2008年九月七日

Contract packagers (or co-packagers) can offer expert, cost-efficient, practical solutions to help you initiate, organize, streamline or improve your packaging or packaging operations.合同包装(或共同包装)可以提供专家,具有成本效益的,切实可行的解决办法,以帮助您发起,组织,简化或改善您的包装物或包装业务。

The secret is finding a co-packager who can offer the specialized services you need.秘诀是找到一个共同包装谁可以提供专门的服务,您的需要。 Here are some important points to consider when selecting a co-packaging service:以下是一些重要的观点时要考虑选择一个共同的包装服务:

  • Determine, as closely as possible, the nature and scope of the problem to be addressed, and the specific problem or task that you would like the co-packager to work on.确定,尽可能密切的性质和范围的问题加以解决,具体的问题或任务,你想共同包装的工作。
  • Consult this website to find professional co-packagers with the specific expertise you need.本网站协商,寻找专业合作包装的专门知识您所需要的。
  • Identify co-packagers with the expertise you require.确定共同包装与您所需要的专门知识。 Conduct a preliminary assessment of each of the most promising and appropriate candidates.进行初步评估的每一个最有前途的和适当的候选人。
  • If you have questions about a candidate’s background, call and ask questions.如果您对此有疑问的候选人的背景,电话和提问。 The key staff at a professional co-packaging service will be happy and proud to discuss the company’s qualifications to solve your problems, the staff’s professional experience, offer references, and supply any information needed to help you make your decision.关键的工作人员在一家专业公司包装服务将高兴和自豪,讨论公司的资格,以解决您的问题,工作人员的专业经验,提供参考,并提供任何必要的信息,以帮助您做出你的决定。
  • Interview by phone or in person the most promising candidates to verify that their experience matches your needs.面试通过电话或亲自最有希望的候选人,以确认他们的经验符合您的需求。
  • Find out if the candidate is an active, professional co-packager.查找如果候选人是一个积极的,专业的合作包装。 Be sure to ask any question that might have a bering on a contract packager’s qualifications.一定要问任何问题,可能有白令合同包装的资格。 What types of projects has the company worked on in the past?哪些类型的项目公司的工作在过去的? How long has the company been in operation?多久了该公司一直在运作? How big is the company?究竟有多大的公司吗? What size company does the contract packager most frequently work with?什么大小公司没有合同的包装最常见的工作? How are fees typically determined?如何费用一般确定? How many of the contract packager’s accounts are repeat business?有多少合同包装的决算是重复的企业? Is it a member of and active in the Contract Packaging Association?它的一名成员,并活跃在合同包装协会?
  • Meet the key staff.满足的关键人员。 Make sure you are introduced to the quality control and operations people.请确认您介绍了质量控制和操作人员。 The managerial and supervisory staff should have extensive experience in your industry with an understanding of your markets and a strong engineering background.的管理和监督人员应具有丰富的经验与您所在行业的了解您的市场和强大的工程背景。 The co-packager also should have training records for inspection by a prospective customer for the asking.共同包装也应该有培训记录,检查潜在客户的要求。
  • Visit the facility to check out the housekeeping.访问该设施,检查了工地。 A co-packager should be agreeable to letting you view the premises unless it would violate a confidentiality agreement.阿合作包装应同意让您检视的处所,除非它违反了保密协议。
  • Once you’ve finished the interviewing process, request project proposals from the contract packagers whom you are seriously considering hiring.一旦您完成了面试过程中,要求项目建议书从合同包您正在认真考虑聘用。 Make sure the final proposal(s) contain well-defined “Scope of Work,” “Services to be Provided,” and “Description of Fees” or “Fee Schedule” sections.请确定最后建议(星期日)载有明确界定的“工作范围” , “提供服务”和“收费说明”或“费用表”章节。
  • 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.考虑什么是不建议以及什么是:生产速度,一些变化,为了刑罚变更或注销,储存原材料和成品,等等。
  • Resist the temptation to base your decision on price alone.抵制诱惑,基地的决定仅在价格上。 A co-packager should ultimately act as an extension of your business.阿合作包装最终应作为一个延伸您的业务。 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.通常,似乎首先是一个更昂贵的包装服务合同将超过弥补差异的费用节省你更多的钱和解决的具体问题,更有效。
  • 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.在您微调细节和达成一项协议,共同包装的建议(尤其是“工作范围”一节) ,签订合同和/或问题的一个适当的采购订单。
  • Provide input, support and on-going interest to the co-packager thoughout the project.提供投入,支持和正在进行的利益共同包装thoughout项目。 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.记住,你可能会问合同的包装熟悉一夜之间的知识系统,技术和产品怪癖贵公司已来制定和通过。
  • Be open to suggestions.开放的建议。 Contract packagers are innovative, versatile and accustomed to efficiently working within narrow time frames.合同包装具有创新性,多功能和习惯能够有效地缩小内工作的时限。 From experience, they often can suggest minor modifications that will save your company time and money.从经验看,他们往往可以建议略作修改,将您的公司节省时间和金钱。
  • 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.可以肯定的共同包装知道和了解您的组织,合同包装正在努力执行贵公司内部有足够的权力,以确保合同的包装已充分合作,每个人都参与了这个项目。

If you are ready to hire a contract packager, please call us today!如果你愿意雇用合同包装,请拨打我们今天!

Polyethylene Bagging Services聚乙烯套袋服务

September 2, 2008 2008年9月二日

Bagging Services There are always new and outstanding opportunities for packaging retail products.总是有新的机会和优秀的包装零售产品。

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.例如,一个项目在一个多袋头可升格为吸塑包装,并获得更高的价格点由于更大的感知价值。 Or a product on a skin board could be packaged into a clamshell and, not only look better, but offer greater protection from damage.或产品对皮肤董事会可以打包到一个翻盖式和,不仅好看,而且提供更大的保护免受损坏。

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.最近的一个主要零食生产商发现,印刷聚乙烯袋提供了许多好处的波状托盘,他们一直在使用他们的个人小吃项目。 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!不仅印刷袋的成本低于印刷托盘但消费者喜爱的光明和snappier图形可在塑料袋,从而购买更多的产品!

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.棕色袋子的处理上已经有杂货店和百货公司,但几十年来的想法,提供多种单服务单位一袋只是还没有发现在制造业领域。 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.也就是说,不高的影响,直到增加了图形和制造系统,可用于包装大量的麻袋在一个单一的转变。

But how did this revolutionary sacking technology and solution evolve?但是,怎么这个革命性的罢免技术和解决方案演变?

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.阿龙托马斯公司工作的首要设备公司,在基本面包装袋设备和重新设计的装载地区和饲料的设计处理装载多个单一服务玉米和马铃薯片包到预先取得印刷袋。 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.必要的机制来自动填充的袋子,然后良好的调谐,以整齐的麻袋包装与有组织行的产品,以减少损失和提高客户满意度。

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.后来,一个进程,自动密封袋标准或双热封条被纳入作为在网上通过或失败的验证检查称重,自动包标记,多边门一袋喂养。 It took almost a year to incorporate all the modifications necessary to maximize production throughput and to minimize production costs.花了将近一年,将所有必要的修改,以最大限度地提高生产能力和生产成本降到最低。

This revolutionary packaging technology is now available in all three of our locations.这一革命性的封装技术,现已在所有三个我们的位置。 It has even been co-opted by our client and is used now nationwide in each of their manufacturing facilities!它甚至被增选我们的客户和现在使用在全国各自的生产设施! This resulted in our being honored with the prestigious “Contract Manufacturing Supplier of the Year” award in recognition of our efforts and accomplishments.这导致我们被荣幸的声望“合同制造年度供应商奖” ,以表彰我们的努力和取得的成就。

As you can see, packaging revolutions are challenging but not impossible if the right conditions are met.正如你所看到的,包装革命的挑战,但并非不可能,如果适当的条件得到满足。 First, you need a strong vision of how you want your product packaged and the benefits it offers over existing packaging solutions.首先,你需要一个强有力的远景如何您希望您的产品包装和它的好处提供了在现有的封装解决方案。 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.其次,你需要一个产品,数量和长寿的理由感情买进和资本投资的合同包装合作伙伴。 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.最后,你需要一个合同的包装,有思考能力的一方的方块或托盘...在这种情况下, ...才能完成任务。