Here are a range of benefits you’ll see from using one supplier, and why they will significantly enhance your business:

• Cost Savings: By working with one packaging supplier you can potentially reduce your costs in a range of ways. Volume discounts; these are often the most immediate benefit, with one supplier you can leverage negotiations over a broad range of products. Reduction in shipping cost; One packaging supplier results in fewer deliveries, leading you to substantial savings on transport. Lower administrative overheads; fewer invoices, purchase orders, and supplier communication,  all contribute to lower administration for procurement departments. 
• Reduced Admin and Shipping Costs: If your team are managing multiple suppliers, they’ll likely they’ll be dealing with a variety of admin tasks; invoicing, schedules, and communication channels. Using one supplier can reduce the amount of resource taken up with admin, and apply this resource to better use within the organisation. Amongst these admin tasks is also juggling shipping schedules and payments, you could significantly lower both of these by having a sole packaging supplier, because of fewer shipments and the use of different carrier networks.
• Improved Efficiencies and Streamlined Operations: By consolidating to one packaging supplier you can simplify the management, processing orders is less complex, issues are resolved faster, and operation structures remain better in place. Other stages of the management and operational account maintenance, ave additional benefits for using one packaging partner, you are able to more easily integrate systems that need to be shared for stock ordering, this leads to better and more accurate forecasting, inventory management, and overall supply chain visibility. 
• Stronger Relationships and Better Service: When you commit all of your packaging to one supplier, you become more than just a customer, you become a valued partner, meaning you get an investment from them into your unique business needs. A trusted single supplier is more likely to collaborate with you effectively, developing bespoke packaging solutions, explore innovative ideas, and provide insights to the latest developments within the packaging industry.