Cost Effective Thinking
Spending your financial resources on equipment designed to package your product may be unnecessary. Many new manufacturers have the misconception that to package orders (large or small) you either do it all by hand, engage a contract packer or purchase expensive machinery. The following short story may sound familiar to you;
“By Pure Pleasure manufactures a skin treatment range made from Himalayan & Dead Sea Salt infused with a unique blend of essential oils. Previously the ‘factory’ was the kitchen/dining room of an apartment where all the ingredients were mixed and each jar was hand filled.
This process (obviously) was both time consuming and limited in the number of jars able to be filled. Labels were printed by an ink jet printer on clear stock with the promise that the labels would be both waterproof and oil resistant. Neither of these promises was kept and so we were applying dodgy labels by hand.
As sales grew the amount of time needed to produce the number of jars required to fill the ever increasing orders became prohibitive. A cost effective alternative had to be found quickly so we asked our packaging suppliers for suggestions.
Their only suggestion was to contact Nathan Wardell at Packserv Australia. Our first visit to Nathan was certainly an eye-opening experience. He showed us how we would be able to fill, seal, label (both waterproof and oil resistant) and cap more product in a day than we would have previously done in a month. This meant we were able to confidently grow our business, safe in the knowledge that we could fill all new orders both domestic and export. We don’t have to invest in a large stock holding in order to be prepared for possible future orders from distributors. Receiving a very large export order is no longer a problem. We are now able to promise delivery within a week whereas before it could take 3-4 weeks and we had to employ staff to help manufacture which reduced profitability.
In these uncertain economic times, it is very reassuring that there is a cost effective, time and effort saving way for small, medium and large businesses to bypass the need to employ extra staff and save money. This leaves us in total control of our budget, product wastage and resources. We will certainly be continuing to utilise Packserv Australia.”
