At a Glance
This case study explores how Quickbox collaborated with a furniture manufacturer to redesign their packaging solution, focusing on sustainability, packing efficiency, and cost reduction. The manufacturer's initial motivation in collaborating with Quickbox was to remove plastic from their packaging, however found that Quickbox was also able to increase packing efficiency and enhance product packaging branding.
Challenges
- Excessive use of polystyrene and foam edge protection, plastic tape and pallet wrap to give the protection their product range needed during transit.
- Existing solution required purchasing multiple parts from different vendors, making storage and inventory tracking challenging
- Each unit having its own box, resulting in a large inventory requirement
- Increased cost from plastic tax
Solutions
- Box Design:
- Redesigned packaging solution that eliminated the need for plastic and is fully recyclable.
- Consolidation:
- Reduced the number of boxes required to service the whole range from over 50 down to 15.
- Packing Efficiency:
- Enhanced packaging efficiency by removing unnecessary components and packaging processes, through Quickbox's optimized designs.
- Functional Design Features:
- Two bands in different shades around the base of the box indicate where to trim for height adjustment.
- Product codes were added to the top flap for easy identification of contents.
- Numbering on the remaining three top flaps to instruct the packing team on the order of folding.
- Warning symbols and a "do not stack" notice added for safety.
Benefits
- Environmental
- Improved environmental impact by using recyclable materials and reducing plastic waste.
- Packaging Efficiency
- Significant increase in packing efficiency, resulting in a 10 minute reduction in pack time, per pack.
- Cost Savings
- Cost savings by avoiding annual plastic usage taxes.
- Inventory Management
- Single-source solution, making inventory management significantly simpler and easier and greatly reducing the storage space required.
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