Empty Space is a consistent puzzle in the logistic field. Botta Packaging has just released a new market research about the impacts of the Empty Space problem on the sustainability in packaging and transportation, namely “The Packaging Impact: Empty Space, Sustainability and Customer Satisfaction”. The report has drawn the attention in the industry as it focuses on the million-dollar question of logistic optimization.
With the well selected empirical or theoretical data and case studies, Botta Packaging’s market report emphasized the importance of an efficient packaging design in reducing the space waste, transportation trips or the number of vehicles resulting in logistics cost saving and decreasing the consequences to the environment. According to the paper, “packaging design would decide how a company can use available space and equipment; while packages’ shape, strength, and materials impact the ability to use the full cubic capacity”.
The second part of the report is, in fact, very useful for logistics managers and researchers since it gives them an insight of current regulations related to packaging and space optimization. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Balanced Scorecard are common tools used to evaluate the environmental impact produced by existing packaging systems. Then, the paper presented the implementation cases of enterprises who successfully minimized empty spaces by managing their supply chain system or innovating their products and packaging methods.
Despite the fact that Empty Space is not a new problem, the solutions for them are still being figured out and renovated by enterprises day by day. Any firms or manufacturing industries who could solve the issue of Empty Space through wise packaging solutions will gain the significant cost savings as well as positive impacts on the environment. For this reason, Botta Packaging’s research on Empty Space is a paper worth reading. The report is available for interested audience on Botta Packaging’s website: https://www.botta.it/en/empty-space/
