Solutions
Solutions
Unique product designs requiring new packing solutions
Customer Product: Industrial motors
Destinations: Domestic India and global destinations
Challenges: Customer product is uniquely designed for each customer order, therefore sizes and dimensions are ever changing (2-tons to 35-tons)
Issue: Creating packing designs that help meet an overall lower transportation cost, but ensure quality levels are maintained
Solution & Results: We use Japan Industrial Standards (JIS) for the base of our calculations which ensures we maintain a standard that protects the motor on its journey from the factory to its’ final destination. In order to achieve the lowest transportation cost possible, we look make the packing as small as possible, and approach export destinations with packing solutions that prioritize shipping in the following sequence, GP containers, open tops, flat racks, RO-RO vessels, and then finally breakbulk vessels. Through this approach and working closely together with our customer, we have been able to reduce the packing footprint and find ways of utilizing GP containers that have reduced overall transportation cost.
Reducing waste but maintaining quality
Customer Product: Industrial inverters
Destinations: Domestic India and global destinations
Challenges: Large volume of product being packed and shipped daily
Issue: Creating and implementing a packing design and operation that reduces waste, has high container efficiencies, and is repeatable
Solution & Results: We worked to replace a wood packing design with a durable cardboard solution that reduced the overall footprint of the final packing solution. This new packing solution allowed for more units to be stuffed in each ocean container, was a lower cost packing material solution, and helped the destination side to reduce unpacking time, as well as, reduce overall waste that was previously generated by the wood packing materials.
Improvements for warehouse operation and line feeding activities
Challenges: Customer was operating a 3,240m2 warehouse which also feeds their production line
Issue: Space utilization and warehouse efficiencies were low, while line feeding activities were not happening in a timely manner causing delays in production
Solution & Results: We proposed to take over the warehouse and inventory management function and provide a fresh perspective to the operation. Since taking over, we have been able to improve space utilization, implement 5S activities, and improve overall efficiencies, which have all combined to help increase production line output.