The Pack-Ecosystem, Your Roadmap to Start-Up

I’ve noticed over the years, individuals (including myself) tend to develop and exhibit idiosyncrasies over time, which highly correlate back to the what, how and when climate of executing the daily duties in their particular profession. Some of the less neurotic traits are easy to conceal while other tics may absolutely give you away as to what your profession is. For the members of the FMCG packaging industry ecosystem, we’ve got our tags, too.

On a particular occasion several years ago, as I explained typical work streams and tasks needed to produce a packaged product, including briefly summarizing the supply chain activities required to ensure the orange candy coated double stuffed sandwich cookies are always waiting for you in Aisle 9 by October 1st, the curious colleague, largely unfamiliar with packaging, respectfully quips back “You [packaging] folk are an odd bunch.”

Yes we are.

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However, everyone need not be in the same circus act spinning around in Uncle Tony’s marinara over in the Marshall Islands. As long as the baton twirlers in the side ring in Peru are sharing the vodka sauce with the magicians performing in Ireland among the Flemish audience while paddling out to the cresting wave in North Shore, and the trapeze artists drop in from the Gold Coast with their mozzarella, Fine China, North Dakotan red sauce and German thermo-formers as coached by the ring master in the tube just off Hermosa Beach, stuff just seems to work out…With all the moving parts, ingredients, machinery and people coming and going from different directions, locations and at all hours of the day and night with this oops, these uh-ohs and a couple oh-$hits, trying desperately to get to the moon on time, how does stuff just-work-out?

1. Because we love what we do
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About Pack Systems

Karen is a recovering corporate engineer turned consultant for small, medium-sized and large CPG firms in the Food & Beverage industry. She can be found tweeting about engineering, food making and food waste, making the Denver Mini Maker Faire, sewing bags and clothes, screen printing, making a mess in her kitchen or engineering facility network optimizations and product launches.

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