Business Management – Supply Chain

Total job, label versions, and output volumes are growing, while average run lengths fluctuate. Add in ongoing material and labor shortages, and the time to optimize workflows is now. The latest report from NAPCO Research delivers data and perspectives converters and suppliers can do to stay ahead.

The Flexible Packaging Association has issued a notice about potential trade actions that threaten the supply chain for a material that plays a crucial safety role in a variety of markets from food and beverage to medical and pharmaceutical.

The global market for glassine paper is expected to double in the next decade to $4.7 billion USD. And almost every other paper market in the world utilizes glassine: Europe, Asia, South America. Every market except North America.

Noting supply chain challenges hitting businesses in general, AGE Industries is promoting how its dynamic inventory management system is empowering the packaging converter and supplier to make just-in-time delivery of corrugated boxes and other packaging.

Here’s a closer look at the supply chain challenges printers are facing, as well as strategies on how to manage them.

Here are 10 realities about the packaging supply chain from industry experts.

Aging inventories, continued labor challenges, and paper shortages were hot topics at the TLMI Annual Meeting 2022 as supplier and packaging converters and printers discussed the current state of the supply chain for label printing and how they can adapt.

Domino has released a brand-new VIDEO: Supply Chain in Crisis which features a wide cross-section of label industry leaders who discuss and share their thoughts on a very important and serious topic. This documentary-style video, a project five months in the making, includes…

Could there be a bright spot on the horizon in the paper industry?

The second quarter 2022 State of the Industry Update focused solely on measuring evolving supply chain dynamics.