This customer produces several different sizes of diesel engines. The project brief was to analyze the supply chain flow for two sizes of crank shafts delivered into the customer’s plant by their supplier. The main issue the customer had with the existing crank shaft packaging was that the current solution wasn’t able to be reused. This produced high amounts of material waste on site, which was very costly and inconvenient.
Nefab decided to perform a packaging review, which led to the customer later deciding that an investment in a Nefab returnable system would be the most cost-efficient solution. The Nefab project team proposed a 12 mm plywood container(RePak T)solution which was customized to fit the customer’s special requirements. As a result, the customer got a completely customized packaging solution, including: 12 mm plywood boxes in two different sizes, with dedicated inner packaging for additional product protection and pallet.
Customer Benefits from Nefab Packaging
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The customer is very pleased with the reusable solution and Nefab’s cost take-out approach, leading to significant savings.
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Totally, it is estimated that investment in Nefab’s reusable system will allow the customer to decrease the packaging cost by 62.5% during the project’s lifetime.
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Moreover, the forecasted payback time will be only seven months.
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The main problem the customer faced with the expendable packaging, material waste, was completely eliminated.
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Other benefits are simplified handling and transport space optimization.
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Customized design, completely collapsible packaging
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Ease of packing and unpacking products
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One supplier for all packaging products
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Convenient solution for packaging and logistics