Keeping Costs Down
Simple advice to keep your costs down
At WH Skinner we know the importance of keeping costs down for our customers, and whenever we see an opportunity to save money we will talk to you about it. The following are just some of the ways that we can help you achieve the best value for your money:
Board grades
Generally the brown board grades are cheaper than the white. If you need white on the outside of your box/display but can accept brown instead of white on the inside then you will make a saving.
Have you considered that a rustic style of box or display might fit in well with your marketing strategy? Brown board with carefully chosen printing can look very stylish and particularly eco-friendly whilst saving money too.
Styles
Very often we are asked to quote for boxes that a client is already buying regularly elsewhere. Sometimes we find out that just changing to a different style of box can save on board or manufacturing costs.
Quantities
When you ask us for a quote, you may choose perhaps 3 quantities such as 500, 1000 and 2000. When we issue your quote we may change the quantities slightly if we think that we can save you some money. We may quote for, say, 600, 1200 and 2000 simply because changing those numbers may just take you over a couple of price breaks and might make a valuable difference. If you want a specific quantity and no more then just tell us and we will of course accommodate you.
With printed work the quantities typically have a large bearing on the price. When you consider that the setting up of a print job may incur the same cost to print 20 as it would to print 1000, you can see that the unit cost will fall significantly as the quantity increases. Sometimes we do jobs that have 4 components from plain board and one that is printed. In this case, if you wanted 200 finished units it could be cost efficient to have 200 completed but to print an extra 200 sheets and store them for next time. This way you could well bring the overall unit cost down quite significantly.
Your distribution process
On many occasions we have saved our clients thousands of pounds without actually reducing the cost of their packaging. The reason for this is that the price of the actual boxes is only part of the total cost of packaging. Other components include how long does it take to assemble the containers, how easy they are to fill, do they fit the pallets easily, is space being wasted both in your factory and on the trucks, what is the cost of breakages both directly and to your reputation? We are experts at understanding the complete process and helping you to improve efficiency just by choosing your packaging design very carefully.
