Packaging
28 posts tagged with “Packaging”
Pack Expo 2026: Treat Packaging and Pallets as Warehouse Flow Infrastructure
A practical test plan for evaluating packaging and pallet changes across receiving, storage, automation, freight cube, damage, and total landed cost.
CXTMS InsightsOctober 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Packaging Performance Data: Connect Damage, Cube, Labor, and Freight Cost in One Ledger
Build a packaging performance ledger that connects materials, labor, dimensions, damage, claims, cube utilization, and freight cost by shipment.
CXTMS InsightsSeptember 27, 2026 · 6 min read
Plastics Tariffs Are Creating a Resin-to-Packaging Landed-Cost Blind Spot
Learn how to trace plastics tariffs from resin through converted packaging and validate supplier price increases with a part-level landed-cost model.
CXTMS InsightsSeptember 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Boxes Beat Mailer Bags in 2026: Turn Packaging Preference Into a Freight Decision
Turn consumer preferences for boxes into packaging rules that balance protection, dimensional weight, freight cost, satisfaction, and waste.
CXTMS InsightsSeptember 4, 2026 · 6 min read
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