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Packaging manufacturing
High volume, many SKUs, and very little room for a costing error.
The shape of it
When margin per unit is measured in fractions, a costing model that is a few percent out stops being an accounting inconvenience and becomes the difference between a profitable line and a busy one. Add frequent changeovers, where setup time is a real cost that per-unit thinking hides, and quoting becomes the highest-leverage thing the business does.
Specifics
What's different here
- Setup and changeover costs that per-unit costing structurally hides
- SKU counts high enough that nobody reviews costs line by line
- Board and film prices moving faster than quotes are refreshed
- Quote turnaround competing directly on speed as well as price
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Where we start
Next step
Start with discovery.
Tell us what your operation runs on today.