Yearly Cost-Reduction Mandates

Shopping for lower pricing on consumables is how most companies strive to fulfill a yearly cost-reduction mandate.  Given how prices increase but rarely decrease, these yearly saving mandates are difficult to maintain.  When price-cutting finally reaches its lowest termination point, companies are then left with seeking other ways to reduce their operational costs.

Material usage reduction (e.g. Lean Manufacturing) efforts aren’t forefront because that requires a greater collective involvement than just price shopping.  Adopting a Lean Manufacturing program would require a budgeted allocation of ongoing training and management oversight at additional cost.

FACT:  'Packaging' affects all workflow areas of any goods-related business because nothing arrives or is internally handled or shipped uncontained.
 
FACT:  Some type of 'Process' is being utilized in each workflow area of every business operation.

The 'Packaging Process' is inherently integral throughout every operation making and/or selling physical goods.  Gaining an operation workflow analysis from a professional packaging consultant usually leads to a savings discovery well beyond the lowest price termination point of consumables.