Automotive
Customer Challenge
A high-performance auto-parts manufacturer wanted to balance its demand for packaging and shipping supplies to avoid costly downtime with their need to also save precious warehouse space. Save time and money with stock on hand? Or have additional warehouse space to allocate to production:
- Overstocking of packaging supplies was costly as the company had challenges forecasting need with production
- Idle packaging/shipping supplies consumed space needed for production
SSI Solutions for Success
SSI Packaging Assessment
- SSI’s Packaging Assessment offered key opportunities to not only free up precious warehousing space for production, but also found new ways to combine / reduce the need for multiple packaging/shipping SKUs
SSI Solution Recommendations:
- SSI’s Packaging Inventory Management Program (PIM)
- Packaging Inventory Analysis
Customer Results
Through SSI’s partnership, assessment and industry expertise, the customer was able to recapture their ROI in the following ways:
- Elimination of overstocked items
- 15% reduction in packaging costs, annually
- 30% reduction in warehouse space due to PIM management by SSI
