Many companies underestimate the hidden costs of packaging and its impact on customer satisfaction and the environment. With Fourth Party Packaging, you can gain control over processes, reduce costs and lower your carbon footprint. This turns packaging management into a strategic opportunity rather than a blind spot.
Thijs Canjels
•3 minutes reading time
•10 October 2024
In most manufacturing companies, the packaging process is a blind spot. Executives have no idea how much it costs and what the impact is on customer satisfaction and the carbon footprint. All attention is focused on the design and production of high-end machinery and equipment, while packaging is often not even someone's responsibility within the company.
Due to poor management of packaging tasks, employees choose the wrong packaging for a product or spare part. The fact that this leads to expensive defects on arrival and dissatisfied customers, no one is aware of that. But not only that: wrong packaging also leads to high repacking costs, wasted packaging material and a lot of air being displaced.
Smarter organization of packaging processes not only saves a lot of money, it is also a social obligation. Companies have absolutely no idea how much of their packaging material ends up in the environment and ends up in the oceans as plastic soup! People no longer accept that. Making packaging circular is a legitimate requirement that every company will have to meet sooner or later.
Is packaging a low priority in your company, but do you want to take advantage of its improvement potential? Then consider outsourcing your packaging management to a specialist who does have the expertise and focus. We call this Fourth Party Packaging, or 4PP for short. As chain director, a 4PP provider can optimize your entire packaging supply chain and help you become circular, partly through the use of sustainable returnable packaging.
At Faes, we see Fourth Party Packaging as more than simply outsourcing packaging activities. It is about managing and improving the entire packaging chain as an integrated process. We combine packaging development and custom engineering with production, assembly, testing and specification. This enables us to determine where standardisation, reuse or a return system can deliver value, and where custom solutions remain essential. Especially for complex products or demanding requirements, such as those in defence and high-tech industries, this integrated approach helps reduce total lifecycle costs without compromising protection, compliance or operational readiness.
Enter your question, comment or packaging challenge in the form below, or contact us directly by phone or email. We would be happy to tell you more about the opportunities to optimise your packaging process and supply chain.
Thijs Canjels
Business Innovation Manager
Thijs Canjels is Business Innovation Manager at Faes and specializes in packaging management and supply chain optimization. In his blogs, he shares insights on efficiency improvements, cost savings and the strategic role of packaging in modern supply chains.
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