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Your Stretch Wrapping Is Causing More Damage Than You Think!

 

Damage You Know About

We all know about truck load shipping failures like those in Photo 1. Or about products damaged during shipment like those in Photo 2. This is visible damage, the catastrophic damage we see or hear about. This is the damage that winds up in reclamation and reprocessing centers or even in landfills.

Truck load of products that were damage during shipment     One day's damage at a grocery distribution center

Damage You Don’t Know About

But there’s damage that we don’t hear about or see. This is invisible damage. It’s subtle, non-catastrophic damage.  It happens when only a small part of the shipment fails to arrive at its destination in “as made” condition. It can be something as simple as the wasted time, extra effort, and inconvenience of having to restack a pallet or two before they can be unloaded from a truck like in Photo 3.

Boxes that shifted off their pallets during shipment

Or maybe it’s only a few units or shipping cases on single pallet that were scuffed, dented, or crushed like those in Photo 4. If the marketing department or the sales team would want a product replaced at the point of sale for any of those reasons, then it’s damaged. The dollar cost of this damage may be small, but what does brand quality erosion cost you when your customers are presented with shoddy looking products?

Lost Brand Quality

Shipping Damage is Costing You Money

Whether damage is visible or invisible, there’s too much. And its cost is too high. The Grocery Managers Association and the Food Marketing Institute calculate that .5 % of the gross shipments in the food, beverage, and consumer products are lost to damage that happens between to point of production and the point of sale. That’s $500,000 a year for a $100,000,000 company or $50,000 a year for a $10,000,000 company. Those are serious losses.

 

Cut Your Shipping Damage in Half with Better Stretch Wrapping

The good news is that shipping damage doesn’t have to be a cost of doing business. Much of it’s avoidable. We’ve learned that better stretch wrapping can eliminate as much as half the damage that happens as your products ship to your customers.

Stop being victimized by shipping damage. Get your free copy of Lantech’s 10 Step Process for Damage Reduction Through More Effective Stretch Wrapping and start reducing your shipping damage today.

 

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This post was published on December 3, 2012 and updated on September 13, 2017.

December 3, 2012

Shipping damage is excessive and avoidable. Better stretch wrapping is the easiest, cheapest, and best way to combat this expensive problem.

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