Did you know why so many people convert from Steel to Plastic Strapping???

Many companies like yours, have switched from Steel to plastic strap and have saved money, and improved their system while dramatically improving worker morale!!
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Your Benefits When Converting from Steel Strap to Polyester Strap

Features and Advantages you will realize!!

You get Light duty palletizing that requires little stretch of strap over time

Your Heavy duty palletizing requires memory for load settling during transit

Your Heavy duty baling requires tight application

Your Bundling of packages with heavy weight challenges

Your Palletizing of heavy loads for transit or storage

Your Unitizing products for ease and safety of transport

Practicality-

Does your current methodology make sense today?

Will your production operate more efficiently and effectively?

Will your operators embrace change for the good of the company?

Safety-

Did you know that A coil of polyester weighs half that of a coil of steel?

Did you know that Polyester strap does not cut skin?

Did you know that Polyester strap is easier to dispose of in a trash can?

Economics

Your Polyester strap is 40% less money than steel!

Your workers won't file comp claims for lifting hazards!

Your workers won't file comp claims for cutting hazards!

Here are 9 things you can do if you want to get promoted at work!!!

Many people ask me "how can i make more money at work?"...i know it sounds simple..but the more value you bring to your company...the more they will WANT to pay you!!!
here are 9 things you can consider!!!



PLAN
1. Where Are You and Why Are You There?
How to get promoted? First you will need to have a reference point. Ask yourself, where are you now? And why are you there? Is there any key strength that has brought you where you are now that you can continue to leverage for the next promotion?
Are there any weaknesses that you really need to correct before the next promotion is possible? These questions, while simple are strategic. It allows you to check your strengths and weaknesses. It forces you to access what has worked and what will work to get you promoted.
2. Where Do You Want To Be and How Do You Get There?
You obviously need to have an objective and a plan. Just saying that you want to get promoted is not enough. You need to be clear on your next position. Is it a promotion to a different department or a different branch? Write this down.
Now that you have written this down, how do you plan to get that promotion? Develop a plan for to achieve that objective. If you are lucky, you can even work this out with your immediate boss. Most bosses do not promise that promotion at such discussions but at the very least you get an idea of what are the expectations.
ATTITUDE
3. Put Pride, Passion and Belief In Everything You Do
People who get promoted are those that have a sense of pride in their work. And they take pride in their work. They are driven by genuine enthusiasm and desire to do their best no matter how small the job.
They believe in themselves and they believe in the bigger goals of their unit or department and company. How to get promoted? Ask yourself; do you conduct yourself with pride, passion and belief?
4. Back it Up with Skills/Knowledge, Direction and Action
Having pride, passion and belief is only part of how to get promoted. It must be backed up skills and knowledge. That means having the necessary skills and knowledge to do a superb job. Having a direction is important to guide that energy generated by your passion. Otherwise, effort is wasted. Without action which is the actual completion of the task, all else is academic. You will be judged by what you do.

5. See Challenges As Opportunities
Another obvious tip on how to get promoted is to see challenges as opportunities. Very often I see young executives being thrown challenging assignments, which they choose to see as an additional chore.
If you want to be promoted, look at challenges as opportunities to shine. Do not complain about hard work, how hard you worked or if your assignment is tougher than your colleagues’. Trust me, no one wants to know how hard you work. In everyone’s mind, their own work is the hardest.
ACTION
6. What Is Your Part?
Know your part and play your part. What is your role? Are you an implementer? Or are you a leader? Know exactly what you need to do in order for your unit to achieve its goals. Knowing your part means being a team player. No one can succeed without help from others. We all need the support of colleagues. When the team succeeds, you succeed too.
7. Do Your Best NOW
I consider this as one of the most important tip on how to get promoted. Do your best NOW. Today. This week’s tasks and projects. Do not bask in the glory of your previous work. That is gone. In all likelihood, no one else cares about it especially your bosses.
Do not think too much about future projects that are not implemented yet. That is in the future. It is not here yet. Focus on DOING your best NOW. It determines how you are being judged. When you reflect too much on the past and think too much about the future, you forget to focus on the NOW.
8. Do More Than Necessary
If you want to know how to get promoted, do more than the necessary. That means volunteering for work and taking the initiative to make a job better. It also means not sitting around waiting for work to come to you.
Bosses like people who can help them solve problems. Even if the problem is not yours, but if you feel you can be of help and have the expertise to solve it, then volunteer to help. You become the team’s competitive advantage when you do that. And bosses like people who give their unit an advantage over the others. Helping your team stay ahead is then helping you stay ahead too.
9. Do Work from The Next Level Up
If you continue doing work for your current position then you truly deserve your current position. People who know how to get promoted know that if you want the position next level up, you start doing some of those work from that level now. If you are a senior executive now, do some work that is only expected of an assistant manager (assuming that is the next level up). This allows you to demonstrate that you are capable of that position already.

Your 20 point check list to see if you have the right vendor for you!!!

Would you like to know in advance if you are choosing the correct vendor for your company???  It can make you look great if you make the right choice!!.....

all the best!!

paul

 

A 20-Point Proposal Evaluation Checklist

PurchTips - Edition # 205 June 1, 2010

By Charles Dominick, SPSM

 

What Does A Compliant Proposal Look Like?

Proposals can contain a lot of information and are the basis on which procurement decisions are made. So you must evaluate them carefully for compliance with your requirements. Use the following checklist to simplify your proposal evaluations and ensure that a supplier is worthy of being considered.

Did the supplier:

• Submit its proposal on time?
• Confirm its ability to comply with the specification or provide an acceptable specification?
• Answer all required questions?
• Provide pricing in the proper currency and unit of measure?
• Refrain from charging "over-and-above" fees?
• Confirm its ability to provide the required quantity?
• Confirm its ability to deliver to, or perform at, the desired location(s)?
• Confirm its acceptance of the specified payment terms or propose acceptable payment terms?
• Confirm its ability to comply with the specified freight terms or propose acceptable freight terms?
• Confirm its ability to comply with the specified delivery/performance dates or lead time or propose acceptable delivery/performance dates or lead time?
• Confirm its ability to comply with the specified warranty or propose an acceptable warranty?
• Refrain from taking exception to your contract terms?
• Provide financial statements?
• Provide a cost breakdown?
• Offer value creating or cost saving ideas?
• Comply with proposal expiration date requirements?
• Provide the information necessary to be set up in the purchasing system?
• Provide evidence of any required certifications?
• Provide any required samples?
• Demonstrate that it has the capacity to handle the additional work if awarded your business?

Do you know how much it costs you when you stock out of product???

Hello...many folks never realize or calculate the true cost to their organization when they stock out of materal!!!

 

Calculating The Cost of a Stockout

PurchTips - Edition # 212 September 8, 2010

By Charles Dominick, SPSM

 

How Much Does A Stockout Cost Your Organization?

It is no secret that companies have been keeping their inventories extremely "lean" in an effort to contain costs in the unstable economy of the past three years. But when sales are lost, there is a such thing as "too lean."

I was recently reminded of this when I went to have my car tires replaced and my preferred retailer was out of my size of tires and couldn't get them in before my state inspection was due to expire. So, I had to buy another set of tires from this retailer's competitor.

Tires aren't cheap - I spent about $700. I wondered if the tire retailer's headquarters is calculating the cost of its stockouts in order to realize the need to improve its inventory levels. Calculating the cost of stockouts can be done using a formula like this:

CS = (NDOS x AUSPD x PPU) + CC

Where,

CS = Cost of a Stockout

NDOS = Number of Days Out of Stock

AUSPD = Average Units Sold Per Day

PPU = Price Per Unit (some use Profit Per Unit)

CC = Cost of Consequences

Cost of Consequences generally will apply only to stockouts of raw materials or subassemblies, not finished goods. These consequences includes costs associated with a production line that has been idled or must be switched over to accommodate another process due to the stockout. They can also include penalties payable to customers for failure to deliver on time.

Most experts agree that carrying costs - the downside of having extra inventory - are 18 - 35% of an item's value for a year. This translates to 0.05% to 0.1% per day. Though profit margins are certainly tight in this economy, getting a sale is many times more profitable than avoiding inventory carrying costs.

The moral of the story is that, when it comes to inventory levels, be lean. But don't be too lean. Stockouts negatively impact your organization's revenue and put money in its competitors' pockets.

Common Purchasing Mistakes

If you are human, like all of us...you may have accidentally committed these common blunders...i hope you enjoy this great article....
all the best!!
paul

Do You Make These Purchasing Mistakes?

PurchTips - Edition # 206 June 15, 2010

By Charles Dominick, SPSM

 

How Many Of These Six Mistakes Have You Made?

1. Assuming that a small order doesn't warrant much time. A purchase doesn't have to involve a large monetary expenditure to represent a big risk to the organization if it isn't fulfilled at the right time with the right quality item or service. So, evaluate the criticality of each order and invest an appropriate amount of time based on the degree of criticality.
2. Assuming that supplier offerings are equal except for price. Most suppliers strive to differentiate their products or services. You should seek to understand those differences, what value those differences have to your organization, and which offering is the best overall fit for your organization, price and other factors considered.
3. Failing to allow suppliers to suggest alternatives. Suppliers may know a better or cheaper way to accomplish your goals. Restricting them to your requirements without giving them the chance to suggest other options may result in forgoing profit improvement opportunities.
4. Failing to build stakeholder consensus in purchasing decisions. A big determinant in things like whether supplier onboarding is smooth, estimated cost savings are achieved, or volume guarantees are met is the compliance of stakeholders in your organization. If you give them a voice in the purchasing decision, the likelihood of compliance - and purchasing department success - is much higher.
5. Failing to qualify a new supplier. You should select a supplier because that supplier is the best fit for your organization, not because the supplier was the best proposal writer. Always qualify new suppliers in a way that is appropriate for the value and criticality of the purchase. This may even mean "dating the supplier before marrying the supplier."
6. Agreeing to things that the organization can't support. When purchasing agents focus solely on price, there may be temptation to do anything to achieve savings. But being able to trade concessions for lower prices means knowing your organization's limits. For example, don't agree to pay a supplier in 10 days or via EFT if you haven't confirmed that your organization can actually do those things.

Did you know the relationship between packagaing cost and performance?

The Concept of Cost/Performance

The preferred criteria for selecting appropriate interior packaging materials for any specific application is a combination of the cost of the final package and the level of performance it provides. This combination can be thought of as the overall value of the package.

In general, a package will perform one or more of the following functions:

1. Containment
2. Convenience
3. Communication
4. Protection

Each can be considered as a type of performance for the overall package or for specific components or parts of the pack. For interior packaging materials, we are most often concerned with protecting the products in the package.
Protection may be from spoilage, heat, cold, moisture, infestation, light, tampering, pilferage, Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), corrosion and physical damage resulting from the bumps, jolts, impacts, compression and vibrations encountered in typical distribution, shipping and handling environments. So, interior packaging materials are most often first considered on their ability to perform some required protective function. This should not be the entire basis for selection however, since all performance will come at some cost.

Over the years it has become obvious that overall value for a pack design is based on several cost factors, including (but not always limited to) the costs of:

       Materials

       Labor

       Freight/Postage

       Storage/Warehousing

       Shipping container

       Shipping damage

       Disposal

Each of these factors is typically included in the final analysis of a pack design we at Sealed Air define as "Value Analysis."

Packaging operations of the scale described earlier (1,000 - 5,000 packs per month) probably will use a limited range of internal packaging materials, depending on the types of products being shipped and the types and levels of protective performance required. The types of performance most often considered for these materials are:

       Surface protection

       Interleaving/Wrapping

       Void fill

       Blocking and bracing

       Cushioning

       Specialty

                       Atmospheric Barrier (humidity, moisture, dust, etc.)

                       Electrical Protection (shielding, anti-static, etc.)

                       Temperature

Areas of Packaging Performance

A brief description of each type of performance may help to explain why certain materials may be preferred over others.
Surface Protection: These materials serve to protect finished surfaces on products which might be susceptible to scratching, denting, marring and highlighting during warehousing and distribution. Products with finished, polished or painted metal or wood surfaces most often will require a surface protection material to ensure that these surfaces arrive undamaged at the ultimate user. Materials used for such purposes must be clean, non-abrasive, and non-reactive. Often, they must also "breathe" in order for surfaces to finish curing in the final package.
Wrapping/Interleaving: When several items are shipped in the same shipping container, they must often be individually wrapped or interleaved to prevent internal collisions and impacts during shipment. Often these types of contents can more easily be protected if they are consolidated into a single unit through wrapping and interleaving with the appropriate materials. The preferred materials for these applications must be thin enough not to add inordinate bulk to the contents while sufficiently resilient to ensure the items being wrapped are protected from each other during shipping and distribution.
Void Fill: In many packaging areas only a limited number of corrugated box sizes can be stocked. Therefore, it is not unusual that the contents will not fill the internal volume of the box being used. The excess space in the container in these instances can create problems in shipment. We often use void fill materials to compensate for any potentially damaging effects of these voids while also insuring the maintenance of the original packaging array throughout shipment. Void fill materials should be economical, "bulky," easy to use and resilient enough to maintain their bulk throughout the shipping cycle. If void fill materials compress and do not recover during impacts, vibrations or compression, then the void originally occupied will be created again in the pack.
Blocking & Bracing: There are times when the objective of a package assembly will be simply to keep the product inside in a specific position within the package. Cushioning may not be an issue (the product being rugged and not easily damaged from shock). Most often, this packaging function deals with large, heavy, rugged items which may be packaged in crates or on pallets.
Cushioning: Many items will be damaged if they are subjected to rough handling or transit vibrations without additional protection. Such fragile (and semi- fragile) products will require "cushioning." Materials which cushion will support the product within the pack and then deflect or deform under dynamic impact in a controlled manner, reducing the level of shock felt by the product to safe levels. Most effective cushioning forms will then recover after such an impact in order to maintain this ability for subsequent impact events. Cushioning is often designed and fabricated (or molded) for specific products but for the operations described here, more often the cushioning materials preferred are those which have broad ranges of potential usage including wraps and foam- in-place.
Specialty: Many types of products will require special types of protection. Products which might rust or corrode, which are sensitive to light, dust or electrical discharge, which must be kept frozen or be kept from freezing, will require materials providing these types of protection within the package. The features of concern for the interior packaging materials are relating to surface protection, wrapping/interleaving, void fill and cushioning.

Materials

The chart included breaks down the common interior packaging materials most often encountered in a typical packaging area. A brief description of the categories might help in understanding the materials and their uses. The list is by no means complete – there are materials which are not included. However, those listed are by far the most commonly in use in today’s packaging operations.
Paper: As an interior packaging material, paper has been in use for longer than any other of the materials listed here. As printed or unprinted news, kraft, bogus, tissue and wadding (multiple layers of kraft and/or tissue bonded together into a sheet or roll of material), paper has been wrapped, stuffed, wadded, crammed and jammed into packages to protect products, block them in place, fill voids and to even absorb any liquids which might be present should the packaged product be a bottle of one fluid or another. More recently, paper products which are processed through machines which crumple, crunch or slit and expand the sheets to convert the flat sheet into more bulky forms for void fill and cushioning have been introduced.
Air Cellular: The first and perhaps most recognizable of the air cellular materials are Sealed Air’s AirCap® and Bubble Wrap® air cellular cushioning materials. Available in rolls (both plain and perforated for ease of use), sheets and bags, these high efficiency materials have been used in packaging operations for over 40 years. Available in different bubble heights, air cellular materials can be used for all the protective functions listed on the chart quite effectively. They can also be laminated to various substrates to achieve other performance attributes such as insulation, cohesion and adhesion. Most recently, a form of these materials has been introduced which can be inflated on site, on demand, eliminating the issues associated with storing and handling these lightweight, bulk y products prior to their use. The Sealed Air® Inflatable Bubble Wrap® system is a unique, efficient new approach to interior packaging problems.
Inflatable Void Fill: This class of materials consists of pouches of air created on site, on demand for void fill applications. Using typically low density polyethylene (LDPE) or high density polyethylene (HDPE) films, various size pouches can be created on different types of equipment available from a number of manufacturers. These materials provide high efficiency, low density, low cost void fill for products which are considered light to moderately heavy (less than 25 pounds). Because of the broad range of providers, the equipment and the types of films used, there can be significant differences in products from different suppliers.
Loose Fill: Peanuts, discs, donuts, tubes, sausages all have been used to describe the various forms in which these materials may be provided. Although there may be some differences in how these various forms flow, compress or stabilize in the package, the major types of loose fills found today are based on the materials from which they are made. The first and most common types are those made from expanded polystyrene foam (EPS). These are extremely low density (nominally 0.3 pounds per cubic foot) and have been in common use as void fill for some time.
Several years ago, a new class of these materials was commercialized, made from starch (typically corn, wheat or oats). Being "bio-based" materials, these products are often promoted as being soluble in water and biodegradable. Heavier than their EPS counterparts (nominally 1 pound per cubic foot density), starch based loose fills have become more common in many void fill operations.
Foam-in-Place: These are polyurethane foams created by combining two chemical components on site, on demand. Dispensed in a liquid form, the combined components react, creating a foam in the package, around the item being protected. Highly efficient cushioning, void fill and blocking and bracing formulations are provided for many high performance applications. New approaches feature operations in which the components are dispensed into a bag in a foam-in-bag process and the bag is then placed into the pack where the foaming reaction then takes place. Foam-in-bag packaging also provides more accurate control over the amount of foam used in each application. A new offshoot of this approach is Instapak Quick® foam-in-bag from Sealed Air Corporation. Here, the two components are provided already in the bag. The operator simply activates the reaction in the bag without the need of any equipment other than a warming device used to keep the Quick™ bags at the optimal reaction temperature.
Polyethylene and Polypropylene Foams: These are two different closed-cell foam materials, commonly used in roll or sheet form. Note that they are both also available in plank and molded forms, but for the operations described for this article, these are most often found on rolls, as perforated rolls or as sheets for wrapping, interleaving and cushioning. Made from different kinds of polymers (polyethylene and polypropylene), these materials are somewhat similar in appearance, but will have different performance characteristics as is demonstrated in the accompanying chart of materials.
With the number of different materials available for surface protection, wrapping and interleaving, void fill, blocking and bracing and cushioning, most small- to-medium packaging operations will include perhaps two or three different options, particularly when the products being packaged are not all identical and all the packages going out the back door are not the same. Selection of the most effective interior packaging materials to use (alone or in combination with others) will typically require the consideration of both the performance requirements of the application along with the total costs involved with the use of the various candidate materials. Optimizing the value of the total package based on these criteria will most often result in successful shipments along with controlled packaging costs for both the interior packaging materials and the outer shipping container.

Why people choose to utilize Static Sheilding Bags

Looking for an extremely cost-effective way to protect your electronic merchandise while taking orders, packaging and shipping? Whether you’re shipping your electronic products to your customers or selling them in your brick-and-mortar store, you’ll want to use the static shielding bags for packaging and shipping at Wrapnpack. These products are vital packaging and shipping casing for all ESDS (ElectroStatic Discharge Sensitive) electronic products.

What are ESDS products for packaging and shipping? These are items that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge. That just means that they’re sensitive to charges that can spark when two items with different electrostatic potential come into direct contact with one another. In other words, it’s similar to the static shock one may get after walking across a nylon-carpeted floor and then touching metal.

Packaging and shipping items like microchips are sensitive to electrostatic discharges. Over the years, microchips have become increasingly complex and efficient; they only require a small amount of electricity to run, which makes packaging and shipping them more difficult. They’re sensitive to the static electricity produced by electrostatic discharges. Packaging and shipping ElectroStatic Discharge Sensitive bags keeps these microchips safe from potentially dangerous shocks that may occur if the microchip comes into contact with other charged items.

At Wrapnpack you can get packaging and shipping products that are either open-ended static shielding bags or sealable Ziploc-style bags. These packaging and shipping bags have 4-layer construction and are sturdy enough to handle even the most heavy-duty electronic equipment.

How you can use Kraft Paper to protect irregular packs!!!

How you can use Kraft Paper to protect Irregular Packs

Looking for a package wrapping design that’s both understated and unique? Try our corrugated Kraft paper single face rolls. Our corrugated Kraft paper rolls are available in either white or brown. This Kraft paper is made with a smooth fiberboard on one side and raised corrugated flutes on the other. This lightweight and versatile corrugated Kraft paper design means you get a wrapping product that’s both handsome and simple.

All corrugated Kraft paper rolls are A-fluted, 3/16” thick, with 36 flutes per lineal foot. That means they’re the thickest corrugated Kraft paper you can get. And they’re great for protecting fairly delicate items while shipping. The corrugated Kraft paper is also versatile; our corrugated Kraft paper rolls start at 6” in length and run all the way to 72” in length. These corrugated Kraft paper rolls are also easily cut and pliable, so whatever the size and shape of your shipping product, you can get the proper corrugated Kraft paper roll at  Wrap-N-Pack to secure your product.

These corrugated Kraft paper rolls have many great, simple decorative uses. You can make folders, gift boxes or a collage. Or if you simply want lightweight and secure padding for shipping your products, then check out our selection of corrugated Kraft paper rolls.

Paul's October Pack Blog!!

Keeping Your Important Documents and Posters Safe with Telescopic Mailing Tubes

With our mailing tubes, you can be sure you’re keeping those really important documents safe. Perfect for drawings, blueprints, screen prints, calendars, flags, posters, promotional materials or any other set of papers that you need to keep clean and crease-free. Telescopic mailing tubes are the sturdy and elegantly simple solution to sending valuable papers.

You may be surprised to find that the telescopic mailing tubes available at Wrap-N-Pack.com  are among the sturdiest shipping containers we have in stock—but it’s true. These mailing tubes are made from a 1/8” spiral-wound double wall cardboard, which means that they’re very resistant to crushing or bending. Because they’re so durable, the telescopic mailing tubes available can be reused, often several times.

The Wrapnpack telescopic mailing tubes also come equipped with solid metal flush caps that will securely seal items and protect them from damage. Great for shipping and storage, the metal ends of our mailing tubes will keep your documents secure whether you’re sending them across town or across the country. Order mailing tubes in a subdued professional brown, or get mailing tubes in a flashy red and add a little character to your shipping packages. These telescopic mailing tubes are available in lengths beginning at 2” x 24” through 4” x 42”.