The Full Packaging Audit: Think Before You Buy? Strategic Diagnostic for Supply & Compliance
Stop Guessing. Start De-Risking.
Your packaging portfolio is likely exposing your business to three critical risks: crippling non-compliance fines, avoidable supply chain damage, and massive overspend on materials. Without a comprehensive audit, you are operating blind to your legal and financial exposure.
The PackMentor Full Packaging Audit is the structured, non-negotiable assessment that transforms risk into a prioritized, executable roadmap for savings and certainty. It is the diagnostic that drives all future strategic decisions across your entire supply chain.
🔍 Audit Scope: The Three Pillars of Review
We examine your current packaging through the lens of PackMentor’s three core value pillars, ensuring you achieve regulatory peace of mind, verifiable sustainability, and total cost control.
Pillar 1: Compliance & Risk Mitigation
The Focus: Eliminating your legal exposure and securing market access.
| Scope Detail | Challenge We Solve | Deliverable and Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Global Regulatory Assessment | EPR, PPWR, REACH. Are your materials legally fit-for-purpose across the markets you sell into? | Compliance Gap Analysis. Identifies and flags immediate legal breaches, providing the plan to Avoid Future Fines |
| Material & Chemical Safety | Food Contact Materials (FCM). Are your materials safe, and is the documentation audit-ready? | Material Risk Assessment. Confirms compliance with FCM & REACH standards, providing verifiable documentation to Protect Your Brand. |
Pillar 2: Performance & Optimisation
The Focus: Protecting your product, eliminating damage, and driving out waste.
| Scope Detail | Challenge We Solve | Deliverable and Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Structural Integrity | Transit Damage & Cost. Is your board grade (ECT/BCT) too light, leading to damage, or too heavy, wasting money? | Structural & Palletisation Review. Optimises material thickness and stacking patterns to Reduce Damage Claims and Material Cost. |
| Savings & Efficiency | Overspend & Inefficiency. Where is material being wasted through poor design or over-specification? | Audit-Ready Savings Roadmap. A prioritized action plan detailing immediate material specification changes that Unlock Supply Chain Savings. |
Pillar 3: Sustainability & Circularity
The Focus: Verifying environmental claims and planning for future circularity mandates.
| Scope Detail | Challenge We Solve | Deliverable and Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Recyclability & Material Status | Is your packaging genuinely recyclable in key markets, and are your materials from verifiable sustainable sources? | Eco-Design Scorecard. Grades your current portfolio on its recyclability, recycled content, and sourcing (e.g., FSC), aligning you with Future Sustainability Mandates. |
| Waste Reduction Potential | Can your complex, multi-material components be simplified to meet upcoming circular economy goals? | Circularity Opportunity Report. Pinpoints where material substitution (e.g., mono-materials) can be executed to Future-Proof Your Portfolio. |
Next Stages: Your Path to Optimisation
Achieving true TCO reduction is a complex process. Whether you are ready to launch a comprehensive optimization strategy or just need immediate guidance on a compliance risk, we have a clear path for your next step. Choose the option that best fits your current business needs and timeline.
Start your Audit Information & Scoping Request to identify meaningful cost, efficiency, and performance improvements across your packaging supply chain.
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