The benefits of Combination Packaging don’t end yet.  Our last entry talked about what the benefits of Combination Packaging mean for your business such as reducing inventory and machine downtime.  Additional benefits include the following:

What is the cost of inbound QA events?  How does $0 sound?!  Savings are realized with respect to the time and documentation involved in typical multiple component sampling and inspection.

Combination packaging also reduces component reconciliation errors

Reconciliation is time consuming and complex!  Combination packaging helps eliminate steps and the time to reconcile.

What are your options for Combination Packaging?

•Folding Carton & Attached Literature: Combining your literature (glued inserts) with your folding carton on (typically) the inside of the carton before you receive them. You receive one combined component. An additional benefit is that the insert is positioned inside the carton to make access to it easier for your customer.

• 5th panel cartons: Allows the insert to be attached inside of the folding carton and the insert can be accessed without the product chamber being touched.

•Multi-panel labels: Can be attached to folding cartons to allow for multiple language information to be provided either inside or outside of the carton.

•Fix a Form labels: Can sometimes provide enough copy space to be able to eliminate the folding carton by combining both the insert and the label.

Finally, it’s important that additional process controls over and above those required in the cGMP’s are integrated into the process at your supplier to ensure combination packaging is properly controlled and maintained.

Please leave a comment if you’d like to be contacted. One of our Package Engineers can take you through a step by step cost-savings calculator based on your commodities.