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personnel. With over 26,000 containers per month shipped, the company has enjoyed the elimination of repackaging and other non-value added processes at its operations in China, Europe and the U.S. In addition to improved production efficiency, there were transportation and warehousing.
According to CHEP, the overall system now has far greater transparency, with CHEP providing the customer with full control over its packaging planning and provision. This removal of uncertainty has resulted in greater stability not only within the plants, but also in the supply chain as a whole.
Getting Closer to Automotive Packaging Customers
As OEM facilities expand to new locations, tier suppliers as well as reusable packaging providers are also quickly responding to the shift. In the Southeast, for example, tier 1 plants are locating centrally to serve various OEMs in the region, or in the case of the Toyota model in Texas, actually locate on the OEM property. Such moves enable shorter supply chains which reduce supply chain risk for assembly facilities, and which are beneficial for reusable packaging systems.
In January 2018, ORBIS Corporation announced that it had opened a 7,700 square-foot dunnage design and prototyping center in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The facility enables ORBIS, headquartered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, to rapidly design and fabricate innovative ORBIShield® dunnage samples for regional customers. The Southeast location positions ORBIS closer to automotive manufacturers and tier suppliers to collaborate on part packaging designs.
ORBIShield, ORBIS’ line of custom dunnage, uses a variety of foam, sheet, specialty and fabric materials to create protective packaging for automotive parts. ORBIShield can be integrated with reusable packaging such as totes and bulk containers, to standardize parts per container, maximize pack density, improve inventory control, enhance part presentation at the assembly line and protect sensitive parts when stored and transported.
Tenneco has been using CHEP Folding Large Containers (FLCs) since August 2015
Photo credit: CHEP