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# How to Improve End-of Line Warehouse Packing Efficiency

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The packing operation in a warehouse often has room for improvement. To help in this effort, we’ve compiled a few useful tips to improve efficiency.

## **Measure Your Key Performance Indicators**

If your organization does not have operational performance standards, there’s no way to measure if changes you make have a positive impact on your efficiency. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are standards internally created that allow a company to have an ongoing report card. Developing them enables you to gauge your progress and to benchmark against industry standards.

 

Many of the packing processes can be measured. Here are 4 KPIs you can look at to measure productivity and performance:

- Number of cartons packed per hour
- Cost of labor
- Amount of packing material used
- Percentage of packing errors

## **Reduce the Number of Touches**

Unnecessary motion creates operational inefficiency. One useful approach to improving warehouse efficiency is to examine the packing process and eliminate unnecessary movement or “touches”. Examine the steps in your processes. By streamlining the steps and reducing the number of touches involved, you can help workers make better use of their time and improve productivity.

## Add End-of-Line Automation to Improve Warehouse Packing Efficiency

Automation has revolutionized the manufacturing process. Goods are now assembled in a fraction of the time previously required, thanks to the automation of manufacturing. Similar improvements in efficiency can be achieved by incorporating automation in your end-of-line packing processes.

 

## **The Benefits of Water-Activated Tape for Warehouses Looking to Improve Efficiency**

If your packers are using hand-held tape guns dispensing plastic, pressure-sensitive tape to seal packages, your company is missing an opportunity to reduce the number of touches. Several passes of pressure-sensitive tape are often used to try to adequately seal cartons.

 

In comparison, by using water-activated tape, a single strip of water-activated tape is sufficient to create a strong and secure seal. If your staff is using three passes of pressure-sensitive tape to seal cartons (representing 3 touches), making the switch to water-activated tape will reduce the number of touches by 2/3, and greatly reduce the time spent sealing each carton that leaves your warehouse.

 

To use water-activated tape efficiently, you need a water-activated tape dispenser to wet and cut the tape. These machines come in both manual and electric models. If you are packing at least 50 cartons per day, you will realize the greatest efficiency by using an electric water-activated tape dispenser. These machines automatically dispense a choice of pre-set tape lengths required to seal each carton and further boost packer productivity.

Shifting to water-activated tape will also reduce the amount of packing material used for every order shipped. Your packers also benefit from using water-activated tape, for eliminating the tape gun means less fatigue and less risk of repetitive stress injury.

  
**Other Benefits of Water-Activated Tape**

**Theft and tamper resistance:** Cartons sealed with plastic, pressure-sensitive tape are vulnerable to theft. When using pressure-sensitive tape, one only has to press down on the top of the carton to create an opening through which goods can be taken, leaving little or no evidence that the package was tampered with. On the other hand, water-activated tape creates a bond with the carton, so there’s no way to access the contents of the carton without tampering being obvious.

Modifying processes comes with challenges, but the benefits can be significant. We’ve shared a few relatively simple things you can do to improve your warehouse end-of-line efficiency. Why not give them a try?

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