Boxes are an essential part of your distribution, they play a vital role in protecting your products during transit, ensuring goods arrive undamaged to your customers...

The ecommerce and fulfilment industry has seen exceptional growth over recent years, and supply chains have become a complex part of the growth, although it is difficult to get a precise number for boxes shipped throughout the UK, the number is likely to be hundreds of millions, if not billions, and getting your box right for a journey in the expanding and fast paced distribution network is essential…
There are huge benefits to making sure your box is the right fit for your product when being shipped across the UK.
- Cost: Even the lightest box can incur extra costs, if your boxes take up space, the size itself can make it more costly to deliver. Couriers charge on sizing as well. Packaging an item into a box that is to big comes at a cost. Reducing the size can result in significant savings.
- Damage: Thousands of products are damaged during transit, due to rough handling and packaging that gives products to much room to move. This results in hundreds of customers being refunded and huge losses to businesses. Damage doesn’t just impact initial financial costs, but also brand reputation and customer experience.
- Poor customer experience: Whether it is due to damage or or excessive packaging, the unboxing experience you create through your packaging can have either negative or positive impact on your brand. Excessive packaging makes it difficult for customers to dispose of, and can even cause frustration due to unnecessary waste. Custom and bespoke box designs can take away the hassle of to much packaging, keeping it simple for your customers.
- Sustainability: By designing your box to meet the specific requirements of the product that’s being packed, you will significantly reduce the amount of packaging you use. Customising your box can potentially take away the need for other packaging materials, inserts that fit around your product provide protection and support in transit, by stopping the product from movement and shifting, and take away the need for fillers and padding.
- Increased efficiencies: Save time with a better design, boxes that need extra materials to fill them, or additional packing, take up time and valuable resource. Designing a box that is tailored to your product means easier handling and is faster for employees to pack. Your overall operation will benefit from more efficiencies; storage space could be increased through better design and less material.
The benefits of using the right box for your products and shipments are potentially huge, saving costs on shipments, better protected products, increased efficiencies, better customer satisfaction and retention, and reduce waste.
We manufacture boxes at our manufacturing facility, find out specialist advice today about the boxes you are using, to pack and dispatch.