Freeze, heat, vibrate, drop, crush, mangle, melt, tear apart, burn, beat, and slam. Would you do this to your products? Well, we would....
The key to handling product damage is finding the root causes — zeroing in on the when, where and why damage happens. Does it happen due to routine movements through your network and supply chain? Is it caused by environmental factors? Or is it automated systems and material-handling equipment? Yours or even your customers’?
Whether it's our state of the art product testing, supply chain modeling, or unit load optimization, our Innovation Center is a hub customers can utilize to ensure they're getting the most out of CHEP's services.
Reducing product damage can be done efficiently and cost effectively as part of our comprehensive offering to reduce unsaleables. CHEP has the knowledge and tools to help you get it done. We have deep operational experience with both manufacturer and retailer supply chains, an ISTA-certified Innovation Center for testing, and we literally “wrote the book” on best-in-class strategies to reduce unsaleables together with the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Grocery Manufacturer Association (GMA).
There are many elements that can affect the performance of your unit load: packaging, design, transportation, etc. Based on your needs, we will customize your experience at the Innovation Center to help you validate or realize areas of improvement. Our engineers will scrutinize everything from how product is arranged on the pallet (or container) to how the unit loads are positioned in a rail car for a cross-country train shipment.
Services Include:
A trip through the CHEP Innovation Center is a trip through the supply chain. CHEP will work with you to simulate the supply chain conditions that your package/product will endure during transit or while in storage.
Our testing will identify packaging or material handling opportunities that can be modified to improve performance, ensure safe delivery and help reduce product damage.
Imagine being able to visit Your Innovation Center and test your product’s unit loads in multiple supply chain scenarios (racking, stacking, and storage) and in different climates (hot, cold, dry, and humid). We can even test a unit load’s performance during a simulated 500 km trip on a rail car or in the back of a truck with our vibration table.
ISTA Certified testing services:
Validating the performance of packaging materials and their compatibility with material handling equipment in real-world conditions is essential for supply chain optimization.
CHEP engineers will perform laboratory and on-location testing with material handling equipment and systems to help you maximize the cost-benefit of using CHEP pooled pallets and containers.
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