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Full Service Packaging: Schütz Broadens Its Range of Services – Greater Benefits for Customers
Innovative service at the new Schütz plant in Moerdijk,
Holland, reduces the supply chain to essentials
Selters / Düsseldorf. Full Service Packaging – in its 50th anni-
versary year, Schütz GmbH & Co KGaA has created a particularly apt slogan for the Interpack 08 trade fair in Düsseldorf. By taking care of all the logistical, organisational and administrative aspects of the filling, handling and transportation of industrial packaging at its new site in Moerdijk, Holland, Schütz has now broadened its range of services to become a true full-service provider to its customers.
Market developments, changing customer demand, a constant stream of new statutory requirements, along with other influencing factors, are all reasons for Schütz today offering its customers far more than pure packaging.
The latest answer to ever new expectations and requirements:
the new facility in Moerdijk, Holland. Logistically an excellent location between Rotterdam and Antwerp, Moerdijk is now not only the site of one of the world’s biggest production plants for steel and plastic drums and IBCs, but also the place where Schütz provides the totally new and innovative service it calls “Full Service Packaging”, which offers customers considerable added value.
In Moerdijk, the company’s core competencies, evolved over decades, are brought together in one innovative and comprehensive concept. This all-inclusive package includes the performance of all services, incorporating packaging development and production, filling, packaging, chemicals and logistics management, and ultimate reconditioning of the used packaging. Result: the supply chain is reduced to bare essentials. At the same time, costs are reduced and, above all, environmental pollution is kept to a minimum.
A glance at the procedure generally followed until now reveals the potential advantages of the Full Service Packaging concept:
- the customer buys the packaging;
- the empty packaging is then transported – usually by road – to the customer;
- on arrival, it initially goes into interim storage;
- the end user orders a particular filling product from the Schütz customer and the empty packaging is taken out of interim storage and filled;
- the producer of the filling product (the Schütz customer) instructs a transport company to take the filled container to its own customer, (the end user);
- once the container is empty, the end user requests collection by Schütz.
The Many Advantages of Full Service Packaging
This general worldwide practice is radically curtailed in Moerdijk –
absolutely in the customer’s interest and also with some significant ecological and economic improvements:
- Schütz produces the required transport packaging as individually required and just in time;
- Schütz takes care of the entire packaging management for the customer, thus guaranteeing that the best possible
packaging solution is chosen.
- the customers deliver their cargo in bulk for filling. Particularly in intercontinental transport., this saves a great deal of time, effort and expense as well as is more environmentally-friendly.
- filling is performed as a service right on the packaging
production site so that transport needs and interim storage of empty packaging simply no longer arise.
- in addition to this “Toll Filling Service”, Schütz takes care of all other tasks, from labelling to batch management, quality assurance and warehousing all the way to complete logistics
(transportation to the end user), including all administrative tasks connected with customs clearance and despatch.
- Schütz collects emptied packaging and reconditions it. Where possible, delivery and collection are done in a single journey.
Full Service Packaging arose from the Schütz philosophy of continuously questioning existing solutions – with the aim of saving time and cutting costs to the customers’ benefit.
Schütz sees the new service as being particularly attractive to overseas customers, who can deliver their filling products (for their European customers, for instance) conveniently by sea in tank containers. Schütz then takes care of everything else – from filling the appropriate packaging to logistics all the way to the European end consumer.
In Düsseldorf, Schütz also demonstrates its unbroken innovative strength with regard to industrial packaging by presenting new IBC and drum.
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