Fulfilling the potential of packaging

Making supply chains more efficient and sustainable

Understanding your Supply Chain Challenges

As the ever increasing focus on supply chains, and their fragility and complexity, continues to be high on the agenda for executives across industries, our report explores the question, what role does packaging play?

What are companies doing now and what are they planning to do to tackle supply chain efficiency, embed sustainability and build greater partnerships across the total value chain?

Our research shows that businesses are hampered by siloed approaches to packaging procurement, and a short-term focus on costs. Despite many appreciating that optimised packaging can have positive effects throughout the supply chain, and at scale this can represent significant efficiencies (both cost & environmental).

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How can DS Smith help your supply chain?

Our research shows that complexity and fragility are commonplace issues facing all businesses. And that many procurement and supply chain professionals are siloed in their packaging strategies and pressured into short-term cost resolution. But nearly all respondents realise that in today’s complex, connected world, your supply chain can give you a competitive advantage and help you stand out. We have the global experience and expertise to help you succeed.

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We think like your customers

To better understand your supply chain and make improvements that will make a real difference, we adopt a customer-centric mindset and focus our attention on mapping your supply chain, making a diagnosis and implementing scalable and profitable solutions.

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PackRight Centres

In order to think like our customers we work alongside you, at our PackRight Centres, to bring packaging ideas to life – delivering value through your entire supply chain. 47% of respondents to our research plan to optimise their packaging this year. So whether you’re goal is to address complexity, efficiency, waste reduction and sustainability, we’ll design, test and produce circular packaging solutions that are fit for your goals.

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Enabling the Circular Economy

69% of businesses surveyed want help in understanding how innovative packaging drives the circular economy. At DS Smith we have developed Circular Design Metrics for all packaging. With this pioneering tool, we can rate and compare the circularity of packaging designs across 8 different indicators, and therefore give a clear identification of a packaging design’s sustainability performance.

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Packaging Innovation in the Supply Chain

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Die Vorteile einer vollständig transparenten Lieferkette

Unsere Studie zeigt, dass Verpackungsinnovation für Unternehmen immer relevanter werden. Mehr als die Hälfte der Befragten (56 %) haben bereits vernetzte oder intelligente Verpackungen eingeführt, die es ihnen ermöglichen, Produkte zu verfolgen und zu überwachen. Weitere 25 % planen, dies innerhalb des Jahres 2023 zu tun.

Bei DS Smith sind wir uns der Bedeutung intelligenter Verpackungen bewusst. Gemeinsam mit dem globalen Frachtexperten Hanhaa haben wir deswegen ParceLive entwickelt. Der multimodale Echtzeit-Verfolgungsservice verbindet Sie mit wichtigen Live-Informationen. So erfahren Sie alles über den Standort, den Zustand und die Sicherheit Ihrer Güter. Und das in jeder Phase der Lieferung und mit jedem Paket, das Sie versenden.

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