Having separate locations can often lead to disjointed packaging operations as teams and managers struggle to communicate from different centers and warehouses. Eventually, this gap in packaging operations becomes inefficient and costly, eating into your bottom line.
Instead of trying to manage your growing national packaging operations by yourself, let an expert from Shorr Packaging assist you. Our highly trained National Account team members are experts in national packaging services, consolidation, and compliance programs for companies with multiple locations.
A Packaging Program Custom To You
Our National Account team is trained to identify and solve problems that companies that independently manage packaging activities at each of their facilities may experience. Some packaging problems we have experience solving include:
- Missed opportunities to leverage overall volume
- Inefficient delivery and inventory management
- Overlapping responsibilities and gaps in execution
- Inconsistent packaging materials and processes
- Varying levels of automation and throughput
- Complicated, labor-intensive procurements
To identify the problems your company faces, we start by conducting a thorough evaluation of each of your packaging environments to identify opportunities for product, process, and automation improvement. With over 100 years of experience in the packaging industry, our experts all have well-trained eyes and the ability to pinpoint exactly what’s preventing your packaging management system from succeeding at the national level.
Our professionals then work with your on-site team to deploy proven tactics that result in cost savings, packaging compliance, and productivity successes. Again, our experience comes into play here.
Members of our National Account team have been with us for over 30 years; we’ve seen how the packaging industry has changed over the years, and we have the real-world experience to be able to effect immediate improvement within your organization.
We also have the ability to scale our national packaging services to meet your specific needs. Our customized approaches can include:
By challenging outdated methodologies, we deliver comprehensive solutions that stretch from packaging to consumables, processes to material handling, and DIM weight reduction to transportation cubing.
Your company is growing, and your national packaging system shouldn’t be holding you back from your goals. With Shorr’s National Account team, you can effectively grow your packaging systems at the rate your business requires, without issues like inefficient delivery management or laps in execution preventing you from success.
Frequently Asked Questions
A National Packaging Program is a centralized approach to managing packaging across multiple locations with dedicated national packaging services. It helps standardize packaging materials, suppliers, and processes while providing a dedicated account team and single point of contact to guarantee efficiency, consistency, and optimization throughout the company.
National Packaging Programs are ideal for companies with multiple locations, decentralized purchasing, or a need for greater consistency across their operations. Organizations that centralize purchasing decisions through a corporate procurement team, often referred to as National Accounts, benefit most by standardizing packaging materials, consolidating suppliers, improving compliance, and gaining better cost control across all locations.
Shorr implements a National Packaging Program through a process that begins with a comprehensive packaging audit and analysis across all locations. We assess packaging materials, suppliers, inventory practices, processes, and spend to identify opportunities for standardization and improvement. Based on this information, we develop packaging standards, approved product lists, governance processes, and implementation plans developed for your organization. A dedicated national account team manages the program, coordinates with local facilities, and provides ongoing support while addressing the unique operational needs of each location.
Consolidating packaging spend across locations allows organizations to leverage greater purchasing power, eliminate unnecessary product SKUs, standardize specifications, and implement cost savings. Additional savings can be achieved through inventory optimization, reduced freight and logistics costs, process efficiencies, supplier consolidation, improved packaging performance, and greater visibility into packaging spend across the organization.
At Shorr, a National Packaging Program starts with a comprehensive packaging audit and analysis to identify opportunities for improvement and standardization. Our packaging specialists and subject matter experts develop packaging standards, approved product lists, and usage guidelines that can be implemented across the organization. While standardization provides consistency, cost savings, and operational efficiency, we also recognize that individual facilities may have unique products, processes, equipment, or regulatory requirements. Our approach combines companywide standards with site-specific needs to ensure each location has the packaging solutions required to operate effectively while maintaining consistency across the organization.
Supplier consolidation streamlines packaging procurement by reducing supplier complexity, streamlining communication, and creating greater consistency across locations. By working with fewer suppliers, organizations can standardize processes, improve visibility into packaging spend and performance, strengthen supply chain reliability, and execute company-wide initiatives such as cost reduction, sustainability, and packaging optimization programs more effectively.
We work with your organization to establish packaging standards, approvals, and governance processes that create clear expectations across all locations. This helps promote supplier accountability, support adherence to internal requirements and applicable regulations, and maintain consistency in packaging decisions across the organization.
Yes. Shorr’s vendor-managed inventory (VMI), intellistock, and other value-added solutions can be incorporated into a National Packaging Program to reduce stockouts, optimize inventory levels, and ensure product availability.
Yes, Shorr’s National Packaging Program is designed to scale with your business. We maintain consistency while supporting new locations, increasing packaging volume, and evolving operational requirements.
The performance of a National Packaging Program is measured through key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with your business objectives. Common metrics consist of packaging cost savings, supplier consolidation, SKU reduction, inventory performance, on-time delivery, service levels, and operational efficiency improvements. Shorr provides reporting and ongoing program reviews to track results, identify new opportunities for optimization, and ensure the program continues to deliver measurable value across all locations.