Packaging registration: you can digitize exceptions too | PackControl

Getting a real grip on reusable load carriers is not easy. The many special agreements with customers, suppliers, pooling companies and transporters make it particularly difficult to properly register reusable packaging. Nevertheless, the packaging registration can very well be digitized. Even if you have many exceptions to keep track of.

Registration or management: it’s hard to get a grip on RTI’s

Handling the automation of your packaging management well, will give you time to manage your efficiency, cost savings and sustainability. As you gain time on entering data and checking agreements, time remains to ensure that the right quantities of RTI’s are in the right place at the right time. At the same time it will give you a better grip on the correct settlement of deposits, even if that’s done in different ways for individual counterparties.

Too often, the administration of reusable packaging takes place via complicated Excel sheets. Information is copied manually from different systems and deviating agreements are recorded separately in ERP or CRM systems.

There's a better option.

The manual processing of packaging transfers takes more time than is good for your company. Too often, complicated Excel sheets are used, information is copied manually from different systems and non-standard agreements are recorded separately in CRM or ERP systems. The result: errors in rent or deposit settlement, too much or (even worse) not enough packaging in stock, no accurate insight into goods flows and problems in the handling of claims.

Packaging management goes beyond registration

The packaging manager can have real data-driven control if more is digitized. In that way you automatically retrieve daily data from pooling companies and no longer have to worry about processing them or matching them with your own data. You communicate easily with counterparties and quickly send them balance and transaction overviews. And, most importantly: any non-standard agreement is automatically applied every time.

Exceptions complicate packaging management

It is precisely these non-standard agreements and exceptions that make packaging management so complicated. In some cases responsibility resides with the carrier, in others with you or your counterparty, deposits can be calculated in a variety of ways, permitted balances must be monitored and in some cases you may even have different agreements per counterparty location.

All data and exceptions around reusable load carriers in one system

Allow yourself to get a full grip on reusable packaging by storing all data and exceptions in a single system. Then the packaging registration no longer takes all day and you’ll have time left to control what really matters: always the right amount of packaging at hand whilst keeping a firm grip on costs.

Get a firm grip on RTI’s with PackControl

It’s possible to prevent mistakes by digitizing as much as you can. And weekly occurring 'exceptions' are actually rules that can be automated. Sounds like a fairytale? It certainly isn't.

With the PackControl packaging registration software you can fully automate the registration of reusable packaging items. In a single system. That saves time, prevents mistakes and adds power to your management.

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