What is packaging?

• Packaging is the science, art, and technology

of enclosing or protecting products for
distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging
also refers to the process of design,
evaluation, and production of packages.
• In many countries it is fully integrated into
government, business, institutional, industrial,
and personal use.
Logistical functions Facilitate distribution
Protect both product and the
environment
Provide information about conditions
and locations

Marketing functions Graphic design, format

Legislative demands and marketing
Customer requirements/consumer
convenience for end use as well as
distribution

Environmental aspects Recovery/Recycling

Dematerialization
One- way vs. reusable package
Toxicity
 What is logistical packaging?
• The science, art and technology of enclosing or
protecting products for distribution, storage,
sale, and use. It also refers to the process of
design, evaluation, and production of packages.
• Packaging has a significant impact on the
efficiency and effectiveness of retail supply
chains, where improvements can be achieved
through the adaptation and development of the
concept of packaging logistics.
•Packaging Logistics should be considered as an integrated
approach, where both systems of packaging and logistics
interact, complement and adapt to each other.

• Packaging specifications directly influence the time

required for completing packaging operations which
ultimately affects product lead time and due date
performance (delivery) to the customer.
 HOW IS PACKAGING USED?
Packaging is used in a variety of areas to move materials
throughout a facility:
•Assembly: Protect and hold components delivered line-side to
a production processes
•Automation: Automated systems require standard-sized totes,
trays or pans to function
•Transportation: Aggregating and protecting loads as they
move through the supply chain
•Warehousing: Protecting products during storage
•Order picking: Holding stored products prior to their delivery
to picking areas, and acting as receptacles for picked orders
 PURPOSE
Physical Barrier
Marketing
protection protection

Containment or
Security Portion control
Agglomeration

Information
Convenience
transmission
Packaging provides a variety of benefits:
•Barrier protection – Packaging provides a barrier to dust, water,
humidity and other contaminants that could potentially harm the
contents and decrease their shelf life
•Containment – Grouping multiple cases, small objects or bulk
materials together aids in both manual and automated handling
•Convenience – Packages can have features that add convenience in
distribution, handling, stacking, display, opening, reclosing, use,
dispensing, reuse, recycling, and ease of disposal
•Physical protection – Packaged products are protected from damage
caused by dropping, shock, vibration, electrostatic discharge, extreme
temperature shifts and impacts
•Security – Tamper resistant and tamper evident packaging can reduce
the risk of theft, or indicate that damage has occurred during handling
•Sustainability – Returnable and reusable packaging can be used
repeatedly before it is recycled; some materials are engineered to
biodegrade
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Barrier protection
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Containment
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Portion control
Convenience
Primary Secondary Tertiary

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CASE STUDIES
 SOLUTION

●Changing the packing system

● Filling up the truck to its optimum level

● “Cluster Supplier”

● Applying the same concept for other similar

products
“The Glimma packaging redesign
is a typical case that shows how
simple packaging changes can
make a huge impact on
transportation volumes and
thereby costs, as well as
environmental impacts.”

Mr. Stefan Nilsson,

Need Planner IKEA