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Maximizing Success when Converting to Reusable Packaging

Bob Klimko, Director of Market Development at ORBIS, joins Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director of Peerless Media’s Supply Chain Group in a discussion on the key steps necessary to convert your operation to reusable packaging.



As we’ve shared in the previous two ORBIS podcasts, reusable packaging offers advantages across your supply chain, including increased productivity, less impact on the plant and rapid payback. And to gain these advantages right away, companies are seeking to efficiently convert to reusable packaging as quickly as possible.

However, the question remains: How do you make the switch to reusable packaging simple for your operations?

Bob Klimko, Director of Market Development at ORBIS, joins Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director of Peerless Media’s Supply Chain Group in a discussion on the key steps necessary to convert your operation to reusable packaging.

The conversation covers some best practices, including communicating your vision, finding advocates in your business to help in the transition, determining automation requirements…all the way through to piloting and implementing a trial reusable program.


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About the Author

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Michael Levans
Michael Levans is Group Editorial Director of Peerless Media’s Supply Chain Group of publications and websites including Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management Review, Modern Materials Handling, and Material Handling Product News. He’s a 23-year publishing veteran who started out at the Pittsburgh Press as a business reporter and has spent the last 17 years in the business-to-business press. He's been covering the logistics and supply chain markets for the past seven years.
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Plastic reusable containers and pallets improve the flow of product all along the supply chain to reduce costs. ORBIS, based in Oconomowoc, WI, helps world-class customers move their product faster, easier, safer and more cost-effectively. Using proven expertise, industry-leading knowledge, innovation, superior products (containers, pallets and dunnage) and supply chain services (pooling, cleaning and logistics) to implement plastic reusable packaging systems.



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