How Printing Cases off-line, just-in-time, can save you a significant amount of Money $$$$$, direct labor time, eliminate the hassle factor, and ship new customer orders immediately with the printing on the cases they need.
How Printing Cases off-line, just-in-time, can save you a significant amount of Money $$$$$, direct labor time, eliminate the hassle factor, and ship new customer orders immediately with the printing on the cases they need.
Problem: High Labor Cost and Case Cost for inventory of preprinted cases
When you have many SKUs and you use preprinted cases, you have a lot of material handling Direct Labor involved and related costs. Here are the costs that are “under the hood”. They include:
- Constant ordering of preprinted cases in small quantities at a higher cost.
- Overbuying and underbuying – never knowing the correct amount.
- The Lead Time it takes to receive preprints from a supplier.
- The high cost of printing plates and the time required to get them made.
- Delayed shipments to your customers waiting for preprinted cases on order.
- Warehousing cases, retrieving them and trying to find them in the warehouse.
- Throwing away unused/obsolete preprints.
- Tying up valuable warehouse space for printed cases for months.
- Labor to constantly Inventory them.
- The cost of preprinted shipping labels, inventorying them, and storing them.
- The cost of labor and materials to print labels on a desk top printer and apply
them. Different size labels required. - Staffing shortages that cause delays.
- Other related costs.
Whether you purchase printed shipping cases, print labels, and apply them by hand, or purchase preprinted labels, you are constantly chasing the rabbit!
Solution: Eliminate these constant costs and delays by automating your case identification, Just-In-Time. And realize permanent cost reduction.
You can now print your shipping cases in-house and just-in-time. No more ordering printed cases, no plates, just the right quantity, one day ahead of time. If you need four more, print four more!
Purchase and Inventory cases by Case Size, not by SKUs. Reduce your material handling costs by as much as 75%. Most manufacturers use a limited number of case sizes to pack hundreds of SKUs.
Print in larger characters so your cases at customer sites are easily read by a forklift driver.
How: Print your shipping cases off-line, just in time, very fast, on one or all four sides, in or near your production area.
You can print 25 to 40 cases per minute, depending upon your case sizes, with text, graphics, logos, barcodes, and other information. Print as a stand-alone or interface it with your IT database.
More and more customers want to interface this printing system with their IT database for “tight” control of product ingredient statements, Barcode Symbologies and their location on your case, your message content, and message layout on your case. Never run out of cases again! At 30 cases/minute, you can print 300 cases in 10 minutes on one or all four sides in one pass. You can print just a few cases if you need to! One person operation, 1 – 2 hours as needed.
Who makes this Cost Savings Equipment?: Eastey & Squid Ink jet Company.
Eastey div. of Engage Technologies manufactures this Vertical Case Transport System (VCTS). Their sister division Squid Ink manufactures a reliable, high resolution ink jet printer, that attaches to one or both sides of the Eastey VCTS to print text, images, and graphics in up to 5.6” of available print height space. Because cases are being printed when they are flat (not erected), you can print one or two adjacent sides in one pass, orall four sides in one pass. This entire system is easy to learn, use, and maintain.
Find Out More Details: Call Marktec sales today at 585-344-4102, so we can:
Understand what you need to accomplish, send video links showing this system in operation, have a discussion how we can help improve your efficiency, and lower yourcost of doing business.. With continued production and warehouse staffing shortages, it’s time to start automating to realize permanent savings. We can provide an attractive lease-purchase option to meet your budget so you can stop chasing the rabbit!
Marktec Products, Inc. 8785 Ag Park Drive, Batavia, N.Y. 14020,
585-344-4102. sales@marktecprods.com. www.marktecprods.com