packaging
24 posts tagged with “packaging”
Lower-Carbon Food Packaging Must Survive the Freight Network, Not Just the Lab
A practical lane-based validation framework for proving that lower-carbon food packaging can reduce emissions without increasing damage, spoilage, or freight cost.
CXTMS InsightsAugust 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Packout Is the Forgotten Automation Bottleneck at the End of the Warehouse Line
Warehouse automation can accelerate picking while leaving packout overwhelmed. Learn how to measure and redesign the end of the line around shipped orders.
CXTMS InsightsAugust 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Foldable Steel Containers Turn Empty Returns Into a Packaging-Asset Decision
Outokumpu's collapsible steel-container flow shows how asset tracking, custody controls, and full lane economics can make reusable transport packaging pay.
CXTMS InsightsJuly 29, 2026 · 6 min read
Commodity Volatility Is Turning Packaging Inputs Into Transportation Planning Data
Commodity volatility is making packaging inputs a freight planning variable for carton availability, pallet density, damage risk, and landed transportation cost.
CXTMS InsightsJuly 18, 2026 · 6 min read
General Mills' Supply Chain Revamp Shows Packaging Flexibility Is Now a Logistics Constraint
General Mills' $3 billion cost-cutting program shows why CPG packaging flexibility now has to connect product design, warehouse flow, transportation cube, and service outcomes.
CXTMS InsightsJuly 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Sustainable Packaging Equipment Is Becoming a Freight Data Source
Sustainable packaging changes are turning machinery limits, material formats, dimensions, durability, and pallet patterns into freight execution data.
CXTMS InsightsJuly 10, 2026 · 6 min read
International Paper’s CPKC Rail Plan Shows Packaging Plants Need Freight Optionality Built In
International Paper’s CPKC rail-served Mississippi packaging facility shows why freight optionality belongs in industrial site design, not after-the-fact logistics fixes.
CXTMS InsightsJune 20, 2026 · 7 min read
Food Packaging Is Becoming a Safety-Control Point, Not Just a Cost Line
Food packaging decisions now affect traceability, recall scope, warehouse handling, and supplier-change risk across food logistics networks.
CXTMS InsightsJune 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Pallet Sourcing Is Turning Into a Cross-Border Continuity Risk
Pallet sourcing is becoming a continuity risk as cross-border shippers balance pallet availability, export compliance, dock throughput, and reusable asset visibility.
CXTMS InsightsJune 15, 2026 · 7 min read
Containerboard’s 8% Production Reset Could Become a Hidden Parcel Packaging Constraint
Containerboard production cuts are turning packaging availability into a transportation cost issue for ecommerce, parcel, and fulfillment teams.
CXTMS InsightsJune 9, 2026 · 7 min read