Colton was very thorough in taking the data during our packaging trials and also aligning the team members on next steps during the fluid nature of each trial.
We don’t manufacture materials, make boxes or sell crates. We are packaging consultants and engineers who design and optimize product packaging for sustainability and reduced shipping costs.
Whether it’s lightbulbs or turbine engines, juice drinks or windows, we go deep into possible solutions and “run the numbers” on the ROI of each. We engineer designs for sustainability, fix transit damage issues, and work with clients around the world as their go-to “in-house” packaging and shipping experts.
The fastest way to uncover profit, demonstrate NET GREEN™ sustainability, and support product quality is with optimized packaging.
BoldtSmith packaging consultants and engineers are experienced across multiple sectors and are impartial to materials and vendors, giving us the broadest solution set in the packaging and shipping industry. We’re driven by data and respectful of user experience.
Every day, our customers trust us with their brands and their business, and we don’t take that lightly. In the process, we set the industry standards for comprehensive, contemporary packaging optimization and cost effective shipping.
There are many components to an ROI calculation: Transportation costs, materials costs, damaged product costs, assembly costs, and manufacturing slow down costs when you don’t have what you need when you need it.
What if changing the way you ship could add millions of dollars to your overall profit calculation? Our packaging consultants delivered this level of cost reduction. By optimizing packaging for efficient transportation and by reducing damaged product shipments. It’s not necessarily by just making packaging materials cheaper; in fact, it may mean better materials and improved presentation.
It is likely that you have untapped profit that can be recovered simply by changing the way you pack and transport products. Need immediate savings? Our packaging engineers have got your back.
Packaging rarely goes from manufacturer to end user. It makes several stops along the way in boats, trucks and trains. It gets dropped and thrown throughout the shipping process.
Our packaging consultants assess products for vulnerabilities at the source of packaging. We follow the product’s path through every stop in the transit supply chain. If products have a chance to be dropped or thrown, we drop and throw them, over and over. We’re familiar with how all carriers manage packages and take into account their weaknesses in order to identify the right and durable packaging for a product’s needs.
Making sure a product arrives safely – large, fragile, liquid, cold or a 100 disassembled parts– requires the closest look possible at what it’s up against every step of the way.
Return on investment, which is net savings and increased profit over time, is everyone’s goal. There is a lot of talk of sustainability and reduction in carbon goals as well. Those two goals are not mutually exclusive. NET GREEN™ is how we evaluate changes in package engineering and packaging design for the purpose of shipping. It is data driven and quantifiable, and we’ll work with you on the formulas for proof. That’s how to find real sustainability, not just words that say your company is environmentally friendly. We know that simply looking at recycled materials is NOT NET GREEN, in fact, it may add to negative environmental impact.
The good news is that focusing on ROI and saving money by reducing shipping costs and damage is, in fact, the most sustainable thing you can do regardless of where your company is in the supply chain. We provide you with the data to prove it.
Every shipping and packaging challenge is different. What you’ll see in our case studies reflects our problem-solving capabilities. Because we work in multiple sectors, such as CPG, medical products, OEM, military and e-commerce, our packaging consultants are able to apply insights differently than in-house teams may do. Efficiency is our guiding light, NET GREEN sustainability is the outcome, and undiscovered profit is the benefit we deliver to our clients.
We know it’s an old adage, but it drives our mission and truly is the yin/yang of our business: “Design to ship. Ship to save.” Packaging that is not optimized for shipping is a waste of money and the largest contributor to unsustainability.
You’ll also see our packaging consultants obsessing with detail in order to impact the big picture: profit in reducing materials, profit in reducing shipping and package transit costs, profit in minimizing product damage. Which means increased profits because our work delivers on NET GREEN sustainability.
Saving money and sustainability live in everything we do for our clients.
Our most commonly asked questions, optimized for your convenience
As packaging engineers, it’s our job to dive into the details. As your packaging consultant, we will look at a number of variables and key opportunities to help you ship more efficiently, such as:
We kick-off every project with a stakeholder meeting to ensure we are 100% aligned with your goals and objectives before we begin. We tap the expertise of our packaging engineers to explore multiple design iterations for consideration. Our progress, such as sampling and testing, are shared weekly throughout the project. Specifications for each material are baselined so every BoldtSmith client owns the data, which helps create leverage for sourcing using a single specification.
We get this question a lot, and we recognize that having someone on staff seems like a value, and somehow necessary for small projects. We’re data-driven folks in all we do, so we offer this formula: Let’s assume that you have a salaried packaging engineer on staff with 3 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of PTO. And during their typical week 25% of their hours are spent in staff/supplier/customer meetings, 25% of their time is reactive issue-fixing, and 25% of their time is spent on “team” projects. The following formula can be used to get your proactive Packaging Engineering cost per hour: {(Annual Salary) x 1.5 (for benefits)} / 470 Hours. When we’re not working for you, you’re not paying us. Or, to put it another way, BoldtSmith’s package says “Concentrated, with no inert ingredients.”
We work fast and have been known to start projects within days of your call. Our resources are free of the corporate distractions of running a business, allowing our engineers to focus 100% of their energy on solving your problem. Concepts are typically shared within 2 weeks of starting the project, and sampling follows immediately after selected concepts are finalized.
There is nothing quite as effective as real people with boots on the ground at your facilities to examine and identify the largest ROI opportunities. More often than not, we identify cost savings that you may have not known existed. We take a data-driven approach to looking at your spend, designs, labor efficiencies, and calculate the true cost of damage related to shipping your products. We look at areas that no one else does. We typically spend an 8-hour day in each facility conducting our audit. Our output is a formal presentation of our findings (good and bad), along with recommended actions in the form of proposals.
As independent consultants we are conscious of your time and that you are working with us because you don’t have the time or appropriate resources. The gathering of data related to spend, damage claims, and your supply chain is helpful for us to provide the best financial summary but is not required. During a project we ask for up to an hour per week to provide a summary of our activities, next steps, and continued timeline review.
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Here’s what our clients have to say.
Colton was very thorough in taking the data during our packaging trials and also aligning the team members on next steps during the fluid nature of each trial.
BoldtSmith Packaging was able to solve all of our packaging issues within the tight deadlines that we gave them. BoldtSmith Packaging gave updates daily on progress and drop test results. The final presentation for each packaging solution completed was much appreciated.
It was excellent working with Dave Branson throughout the project process. It was a very informative professional analysis of our problem. We had regular calls and the project deliverables were completed as promised.
Dustin was very knowledgeable and thorough. We very much appreciated his professionalism and insights throughout the on site assessment
The experience developing the retail packaging for Sausage Strips was painless and I had complete confidence in the successful launch of our newest product.
BoldtSmith has been a great partner throughout the design process. They are extremely responsive to their customers’ needs. This was critical to keep our project on schedule.
When I first started looking into getting help with our packaging I had no clue what a packaging Engineer was. Now I do. They were very professional and informative. The knowledge Aaaron had in packaging was incredible. The entire process was very interesting. It has benefited our company completely!
Recently worked with John Boldt at BoldtSmith on a design project. Couldn’t be more satisfied with the process and results! I will definitely recommend BoldtSmith and will not hesitate to work with them in the future.
Our goal was to get from failing ISTA 3 to passing ISTA 6A. The proposed package does that and is more compact. What was to be only a packaging improvement has become a huge DTV for us due to the 25% more per pallet. Some of the M-Can production is moving to our Mexico facility. The shipping savings will be in the 100’s of thousands.
BoldtSmith Packaging was a huge help to my company and assisted in securing multiple continuous improvement projects and realizing cost savings for my team.
Our organization needed to reduce quality complaints due to shipping. Great staff and were easy to work with, very diligent with on time task completion! Very agreeable team, efficient and knowledgeable. 10-10 recommend!
This was my first time working with BoldtSmith and the entire experience was very positive. The team reacted to an emergency need and performed quickly and efficiently to resolve our shipping container needs. We will certainly bring more work to them in the future.
BoldtSmith did a good job executing on the assessment phase of the project. Very responsive and communicative. Attentive to needs, changes. Reliable. Dustin did a good job leading the work.
Our project went very well right from the beginning. The project itself required a lot of attention to detail due to the packaging and protection requirements that were necessary. I worked with Max from their team and he did a fantastic job executing on all levels. All of the work was done in a timely, professional and satisfactory manner. I would highly recommend their design and consulting services!
BoldtSmith did a good job executing on the assessment phase of the project. Very responsive and communicative. Attentive to needs, changes. Reliable. Dustin did a good job leading the work.
BoldtSmith Packaging went above and beyond expectations with managing this program even though the end customer kept changing requirements. Very easy to work with and high level industry knowledge. Jack Ader was beneficial in providing several options and ultimately guiding the program to the right solution.
Our overall experience with BoldtSmith went extremely well. Max went the extra mile to make sure we got what we needed with tight deadlines. Max is the man!
We had a great experience working with BoldtSmith Packaging on this project. The project team adapted well to some changes and provided us everything we needed. Communication was great through this entire project. We had weekly meetings and were notified if anything changed with the packaging design. The Winston Team appreciates all the help and would gladly send a recommendation for BoldtSmith Packaging.
Working with BoldtSmith has been a real pleasure. Their knowledge and expertise are second to none. They brought our ideas to life and found solutions for our costly and inefficient process. John’s expertise in corrugated displays was critical in the design phase. He guided us to optimal savings and reduced our individual component inventory while keeping structural integrity top of mind. Extremely helpful and always hands-on from conception through to delivery. We will continue to trust in them for future projects.
Dustin is a knowledgeable, innovative, self-starter with a positive professional attitude. His ideas/design contributions and ability to work with our suppliers and top customers was a true testament to his wide-ranging skillset. He implemented cost-effective packaging, listened to all requests for changes, and was able to communicate every step of the process; this encompasses his true character and interpersonal skills. I highly recommend his services for any packaging-related project and will continue to work with him.
BoldtSmith Packaging was a pleasure to work with. We needed a packaging consultant for a project on short notice, and they were able to deliver. The team was clear about their capabilities and how we’d integrate with our internal teams and manufacturers. We’d appreciated their timely status updates and open communication.
Five figures spent with the BoldtSmith Packaging team has in turn saved our business six figures.
Going on seven!
Your team delivered well beyond our expectation on the cost saving goal, and the ISTA testing provides our customers with confidence that the product will arrive in good condition. The process was very easy and all of the objectives were met. Dave answered all of our questions in a timely manner and did an excellent job addressing concerns.
We selected BoldtSmith as a partner because they not only helped us find the best solution, they helped us show our industry you can find both cost-reduction and sustainability solutions. Working with BoldtSmith really opened our eyes. All of the data they were able to show us through their methodology was astonishing. And they were able to translate that data into a smart solution that really made it an easy decision.
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