Papers

The Physical Internet will demand the product – package interface is designed for distribution. No matter their industry or shipping mode - from retail, to small parcel, to industrial business-to-business - shippers around the world and their products can be subjected to any or all seven major distribution hazards. As the physical internet evolves and new distribution channels emerge, your product will endure a far more stressful environment to reach the end customer. During this technical presentation, we will describe the static and dynamic forces impacting products during distribution throughout the supply chain, end-to-end.

This case study format will help attendees understand what happens to packaging in the supply chain and how to reduce supply chain risk by modifying procedures or packaging. In this presentation, we will present the hazards and explain how to avoid them, how these activities are supported by the financial benefits of packaging optimization, including increased customer service levels, reduced returns and increased sustainability. By exploring real-world case studies, we will show how a clearly thought-out packaging process can effectively mitigate even the most complex packaging damage problems, and the role of packaging strategy and analysis to meet distribution channel changes and challenges, including transfer through the physical internet.