Preventing Distribution And Packaging Hazards

Dallas TX

06 April, 2021

9:07 AM

Description

The objective of packaging your products appropriately is to ensure their safe arrival at their destination. The challenge is that your products are up against a harsh environment during transit. If you are an e-commerce brand, not only do you have to make your product packaging contributing to your brand, but you also have to protect your products against all hazards. The first step to keep your products safe during transit is to know all hazards they might be up against during shipping. This knowledge can help you formulate the best strategy to keep your products well-protected. Here are a few common packaging and shipping hazards. Rough handling Your package is up against a shock hazard every time it gets struck by something or drops. This hazard usually results in an impact around the bottom face, corners, or edges. Protecting your package on all these surfaces can help prevent product and package damage. Vibration Your products are at risk of damage due to any kind of vibration. While the severity o vibration seems lower compared to rough handling, long exposures of products to vibrations can result in abrasion, loosening of fasteners, and other types of damages. Compression You have to stack products before shipping. The weight of the products and vibration can result in dynamic compression forces that can cause significant damage to products. Since package orientation is not always consistent, designing all packages to withstand compression from any angle is crucial. Atmosphere The characteristics of your product tend to get affected when the package is exposed to certain atmospheric conditions such as humidity, changing temperature, altitude, and static electric charge. If your products are primarily made of plastic, they can weaken due to high temperatures. Cold temperatures, on the other hand, can make them brittle. Your corrugated boxes will not do well during highly humid environments. High altitudes can result in the distortion of air-cushioning packaging. And, static electric charge can damage electronic products. Packaging hazard solutions After knowing potential hazards, now is the time to see how your products will react to each of these hazards. You will need to see if they break or leak, discolor or deform, or scratch or corrode. What makes your product package unacceptable when it arrives at the customer’s doorstep. After outlining all possibilities, you will need to configure all of your packaging supplies, including bags, tubes, corrugated boxes, custom boxes, and envelopes. Make sure to analyze the amount and type of protective packaging supplies such as paper fill, air pillow, form-in-place protective materials, bubble wrap, and loose-fill materials. Once you know the configuration, order the stock of these supplies. Ensure that you do not run out of these supplies regardless of the number of orders you have to fulfill. If possible, hand the packaging operations over to a contract packaging firm to get rid of packaging worries. If you have to keep your workforce engaged in the packaging operations, be sure to keep in touch with your packaging vendor to get suggestions regarding supplies and strategies.