“When is saving money, not truly saving money?”
The following brief videos are NOT E-Z Set™ designs.
They are just real examples from various club stores to serve as examples.
E-Z Set™ success stories to follow videos.
Lowering total cost while improving structure integrity
Previous PDQ
Our E-Z Set™ PDQ
Challenges
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​Survive the rigors of a very challenging frozen and thawed at store level supply chain
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Lower material and assembly cost
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The rolls are frozen then packed in a PDQ. The product can be stored up to a year. Since the product has a limited shelf life once thawed, the pouches of rolls need to be date coded before shipping to the club store. It is not feasible to do this as part of the internal production process.
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To maintain freshness, as orders are released to the club store, their 3PL warehouses unwrap each skid, remove each PDQ, remove the product pouch to be date coded, repacked and restocked on the CHEP pallet and stretch wrapped.
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Reduce product damage/returns due to PDQ's nesting inside the PDQ below squishing the rolls
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Existing design failed due to tearing on front lip and imploding side panels
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Extremely cumbersome to assemble
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Facilitates easier set up of the stacking shoulders and entire PDQ
Solutions
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Superior front corner support for improved top to bottom compression
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Preferred embodiments significantly improve side to side compression
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Improved front corner post and lip reinforcement resists sides imploding, front lip deflecting and PDQ nesting inside
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Increased product count per PDQ lowers cost per package by prorating it over more pieces per PDQ
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Lower cost corrugated materials provided excellent performance due to patented design
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Drastically reduce assembly time improving time to market
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Improved product presentation, easy product access, reduced damages and in store maintenance
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Increased side to side and vertical compression strength facilitated clamp truck pallet movement
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Improved warehouse, freight and assembly floor space utilization
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Improved sustainability
Dog Treats Cost Reduction Case Study Goals and Solutions
Putting “Strength where it’s needed, not wasted” resulted in eliminating 44 total pieces of corrugated per pallet
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3-layer pads
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A bottom tray
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20 two-piece sets of partitions
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Drastically quicker and easier to set up due to patented design features (See Video)
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intuitive assembly process
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easier to train set up a typically transient assembly workforce
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Less number of “touches
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easier to manage smaller PDQ footprint
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Less corrugated SKU’s
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Less floor space
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