April 15th, 2012 by packagingsupplies
Easter is nearly here! This is one of the most fun and excitingly crafty holidays, but the prices of Easter decorations and supplies can get a little steep. That’s why a DIY Easter is the best, and the best supplies around are discount packaging supplies!
For all your delectable desserts and treats there are cake and pie boxes that you can order to house them, and take them to your family Easter gathering. And if you exchange gifts on Easter you can get bags, bright colors of tissue paper, colorful wrapping paper, and jewelry boxes at low prices!
Sending out Easter cards and photos of your kiddos hunting Easter eggs? You can get great deals of envelopes, custom labels, and bubble wrap if you’re sending delicate gifts by mail, and so much more.
Package Easter candy for the kids with cellophane party bags, and colorful ribbons. Fill their Easter baskets with shredded paper in bright colors to house their eggs. Let your crafty-self shine using a wide variety of colored ribbons and bows, and get a hot glue gun and glue sticks to make the perfect Easter table arrangement and decorations.
One of the best parts about Easter is the food! So while you and your family are cooking up a storm, make sure you have everything you need to serve it up right, from deep food trays, serving trays, pitchers for lemonade and iced tea, placemats, table covers and skirts, plastic cutlery and more. Then when everyone is stuffed and happy, make sure you have all the food storage containers and food wrap you need to send everyone one home with a bit of Easter yumminess.
You can find all of this at discounted prices online, so you can have the best Easter gathering without breaking your wallet!
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April 12th, 2012 by packagingsupplies
It’s that time of year once again. Spring is in the air and with it the promise of new life, growth, and freshness. Each year we celebrate Easter to ring in the spring season and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. With a little effort, you can make creative Easter-themed decorations that won’t break your budget by using inexpensive packing supplies! Here are a few ideas.
1. Easter Bunny Lane
Something that is always fun for the kids is to have “Easter Bunny Lane” through your house when they wake up on Easter Day. With some durable shipping paper and a festive colored tape, you can easily tape down a lane to direct traffic, protect your carpet, and delight the kids. The secret is to paint little bunny footprints down the lane so the kids can follow where that elusive rabbit went and perhaps, where he left eggs!
2. Custom Easter Baskets
The terms “Easter” and “Baskets” are so highly connoted that you can’t think of one without the other. For a great Easter craft activity with your kids, let them create their own custom Easter Baskets. They can use colored ribbons, rubber stamps, tissue paper, fake grass, or anything of their choosing to make their baskets truly original. On Easter morning you can place some goodies in their baskets and wrap it with a plastic gift basket wrap to keep items fresh.
3. Mail-ready Easter Baskets
Another great idea is to send custom Easter “baskets” in gift boxes to your faraway friends and relatives. Using a flat-rate shipping box you can simply decorate it with Easter themed stamps, ribbons, and stickers, fill it with fake grass, homemade candies, treats, and other gifts, and with the addition of postage and a custom shipping label, your “Easter Basket” will be on its way to that special someone.
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April 9th, 2012 by packagingsupplies
In the last post on this subject, we talked about several things to consider in order to reduce your shipping materials budget. We discussed using blanket orders for volume discounts, how to decide if volume discounts are worth the extra investment, and ways to optimize your volume discounts over time.
Here are three more tips to help you lower your budget for wholesale shipping supplies:
1. Try To Find Local Suppliers
Consult the yellow pages to find local vendors who can produce custom cartons in bulk orders. Since the vendor is local, the cost of transporting shipping supplies that will be passed on to you is reduced. The carton supplier can produce your cartons to your exact specifications, with any printing of logos and branding, and can often deliver directly to your production site or fulfillment house. Alternatively, some carton manufacturers might be willing to warehouse some of your production runs and can fulfill and release product in blanket quantities for fulfillment.
2. Optimize Packaging To Reduce Infill Use
Optimize your packaging dimensions for the maximum necessary stability, but the minimal amount of dunnage or infill use. Infill, such as bubble wrap, sealing tap, foam peanuts, shipping paper and other infill material used to cushion and protect products, often costs far more than cardboard boxes. Keeping this in mind, if you can reduce the dimensions of your cartons to where the minimal amount of infill is used in each, you can stretch your shipping supplies budget and shave even more off of materials cost.
3. Optimize Packaging to Reduce Dead Shipping Volume
While this factors in to the last tip, you also want to design cartons so that empty volume space within cartons is minimized. There is a hidden cost in shipping boxes with poorly utilized space. Also the smaller your cartons can be relative to your product, the more product you can ship at once, further reducing shipping costs, especially for expensive international shipping.
With these six tips in mind you should now have a solid plan of attack for whittling away your shipping supply budget! Stay tuned for more tips to help you reduce costs, and optimize your shipping operations.
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April 5th, 2012 by packagingsupplies
Wholesale shipping supplies, such as bubble wrap, shipping paper, and corrugated boxes are among the top three highest overhead costs in fulfillment operations. If you run a fulfillment business, or perform your own fulfillment in-house, following these tips for reducing costs will help you reduce your shipping costs, and find the best quality wholesale shipping supplies.
Here is Part 1 of tips for reducing shipping costs:
1. Blanket Purchase Orders
While developing relationships with suppliers, most operations will buy small volumes of shipping supplies at advertised prices. As the need for volume increases, you will then want to contact your supplier’s sales department to negotiate a standard, blanket order with discounts for volume that you can submit monthly. Not only does this lower your cost for shipping materials, it also streamlines your materials ordering for better inventory management.
2. Carefully Weigh The ROI On Volume Discounts
While the unit cost of shipping supplies decreases as the volume of supplies ordered increases, ordering extra quantity requires an investment in extra units, as well as maintaining an inventory of supplies. In order for volume discounts to work, extra savings due to the discount must be divided by the additional investment. This quotient is then compared to the rate of return you can get from other investments.
3. Set Blanket Orders Subject To Batch Releases
Even if investing in extra units of shipping supplies yields a low ROI, you may be able to get around this by placing blanket orders subject to batch releases. This means that rather than ordering monthly, you only order new inventory of shipping supplies, when you need it. This results in a more efficient budget for shipping materials, and lower cost of maintaining inventory. It negates the cost of your investment for volume discounts by spreading it out over the maximum time window.
Stay tuned for more tips to help you lower your shipping costs in Part 2!
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