This activity enables brainstorming, capturing and evaluating ideas and developing potential solutions for the packaging and transport. This is an extension of the logistics and inventory strategy development (see B.1.3). Packaging and transport design allows optimisation of the total logistics cost and better protection of goods in transport. Also packaging design can make improvements in material handing either at a supplier’s or at the customer’s factory. Efficient packaging solution also means more efficient warehousing, local factory transport, handling and feeding of parts to the production line.
- Objectives/Key learning points
- Establish requirements/ goals for an optimal packaging and transport design
- Develop and document a solution that meets the requirements and fulfil the goals
- Teaching Methodology
- Short introduction to the basic principles followed by some training case studies
- Establishment of all requirements for a concrete client case study
- Implementation Methodology
- Project-based implementation and development of the Packaging & Transport Solution for a given client project