Appliances – LTL Damage Reduction

Packaging Design Challenge

The customer was looking to decrease damages associated with shipping their appliances through an LTL supply chain. The product is manufactured overseas and changes to the packaging at the manufacturing location was not possible so an overpack solution needed to be applied domestically.

Requirements

Prevent damage with domestic overpacking
Do not change existing package design

BoldtSmith Actions

Identify how and why the damage is occurring during LTL shipping
Determine an optimized overpack solution that can be applied domestically
Create custom testing protocol and supply chain map to match the hazards that will occur for LTL shipping
Complete testing to worse case LTL handling scenarios
Create financial analysis comparing current packaging and damage costs to the optimized packaging solution
Complete onsite training at the domestic distribution center on how to pack the product with the new packaging design

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Decreased Damage

For high-end appliances shipping LTL

Greatly reducedThe number of incidents that caused damage to the product

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Old vs. Optimized Packaging

Industries Served

Military

BoldtSmith packaging engineers design, implement and audit military packaging following stringent testing standards with documented precision.

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MFG Assembly Lines

In a world of high-speed manufacturing and assembly lines, packaging must be designed to match the line's efficiency.

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Food & Beverage

Whether the customer is a brand on the store shelf or private labeling a product at a co-packer, we have experience in executing solutions at all levels within the food & beverage world.

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E-Commerce

Our Amazon A-pass certified consultants utilize modern technology in data recording devices, allowing us to create a testing protocol that is custom to our customers' specific supply chain.

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Industrial

Reducing product damage, freight and material costs are common goals we are tasked with when optimizing industrial packaging projects.

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Furniture

BoldtSmith Packaging works with assembled and knock-down furniture companies creating optimized packaging designs to drive down damage and packaging costs.

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