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| INDUSTRY PANEL Product Traceability Through a Reusable Packaging Platform The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the share of digital or digitally enabled products by seven years, and today most business and IT executives report an accelerated pace for their company’s digital transformation with 92% revealing urgency in their call to action. Having durable and lasting properties, reusable packaging products like pallets, bins, and containers offer an optimum platform for technology integration and the opportunity for real-time product visibility into location and condition from point of manufacture to point of sale. In this panel session, learn the latest technology developments and applications with smart packaging for the supply chain and how technology available today is creating unit load and case level visibility for more efficient, resilient, and value-creating business operations. | | |
| How Bringing Intelligence to Pallets and Packaging Can Save the Planet and Make Us All Rich at the Same Time Tiny self-powered computers, called IoT Pixels are being embedded into everyday things include reusable plastic crates and pallets. How will brining intelligence and cloud connectivity to these ordinary things change the way business is done. What is possible and how will this sea change happen? Wiliot technology is being used to reduce cycle time, cut waste and increase profits. In this presentation we will dive into the capabilities and business model that is changing the way things are made distributed, sold, used, reused and recycled. | | |
| Technology for Reusable Packaging Assets and Supply Chain Applications The Technologies that Enable Reusable Packaging. Learn how one of largest US logistics providers of cold chain shipping and supply chain management found a solution to enhance their reverse logistics and reusability of electronic data loggers for their major pharmaceutical customers using AIDC technology. Hear insights on the implementation of a reuse data logger program which returned loggers by 125%, while decreasing e-waste by turning their supply chain from linear to circular. This session also reveals how the use of QR codes on the logger devices enabled rapid download and re-programming in order to get these assets back into use. | | |
| Automation Value Proposition – An Automotive Manufacturer Case Study To invest in sophisticated automation systems, but choose containers that fail to fully maximize the use of space in the system, in effect wastes part of the return on the project. Join Georg Utz VP of Sales and Marketing, Leslie LeMair as she discusses how major manufacturers have implemented packaging strategies that enhance the operations of their automated processes. | | |
| INDUSTRY PANEL Leveraging Supply Chains for Consumer Reuse: The Case of Refillable Glass Wine Bottles Reusable or refillable packaging for consumer products is rapidly gaining popularity to prevent waste and pollution and to create more value through an enhanced customer experience. But many startup challenges exist in building reuse models that will incentivize consumer participation such as operating logistics and costs. Established packaging reuse systems for the supply chain can help consumer reuse models succeed with scale and operating efficiencies. Refillable glass bottle company Conscious Container, in partnership with the Reusable Packaging Association, is developing a commercial pilot involving wine packaging to test and demonstrate the opportunities from a holistic transport and primary reusable packaging system. The pilot is a grant award winner from CalRecycle. This panel session features a conversion with Conscious Container, RPA, and ecommerce solution provider Liviri on the pilot program and how its deliverables will identify market synergies to advance and strengthen reusable packaging across use patterns. | | |
| Returnable Packaging Adoption 2021 - How the Pandemic Fast-Forwarded Sustainable Packaging Solution Decisions Discussion around how Covid-19 forced the broad consumer goods vertical to quickly adapt, expediting future plans for automation and sustainability projects. The pandemic and ensuing stay-at-home orders forced consumers to shop differently. Curbside pickup and home delivery became the norm. Merchants struggled to keep up using manual labor and needed to automate. This coincided with the increasing public outcry and firm stance taken by leading investment firms calling for companies to employ more sustainable processes, legitimately. Major consumer goods companies reprioritized projects moving both automation and sustainability projects to the forefront. Companies are moving more quickly towards automation that requires robust, returnable packaging that, in some cases, can be used in closed-loop B2B applications. These projects may have been on companies 3-5 year adoption radar, or not at all, but have been fast-forwarded to now! | | |
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