Fapco: Top 10 Reasons to Partner with a Full-service Contract
Packager
“With over 25 years of serving some of the largest OEM firms in the USA, we have
identified these “Top Ten” reasons why manufacturers, both large and small, can
cut costs, streamline operations and concentrate more on their core competencies by
partnering with a full service contract packaging firm like Fapco,” states Fapco
Founder and President, Larry Gardiner
1. Focus your company’s talents and capacity on your core business.
OEM manufacturers can and should stick to their core competencies of research and
development, engineering, building quality products, growing their business through
sales and taking their products to market. Partnering with Fapco, OEMs are better able to
keep their eye on the manufacturing ball and do what they do best—build quality
products. Building a Tier One relationship with a contract packager such as Fapco
liberates a manufacturing firm from the overhead and associated labor costs, and
headaches of package design, packaging processes, material handling, equipment
maintenance, warehousing, finished part inspection and even parts purchasing and
assembly. Fapco continues to help some of the largest OEMs in the world, do what they
do best.
2. Take advantage of Fapco as your source for highly trained, flexible labor to meet
your exact needs for packaging and materials management.
Partner with a contract packager to reduce the training, labor, facility and equipment
costs associated with packaging and warehousing in-house. At Fapco our people are
already highly trained, dedicated and ready to help with your next packaging challenge.
Freeing up your labor pool from the tedious burdens of material handing, packaging and
warehousing translates to big cost savings in training and payroll. Eliminate much of the
time and labor it takes to manage and receive raw materials from suppliers for packaging
related goods. Receiving, inspecting, kitting, packaging, consolidating, warehousing and
fulfilling parts and products to the distribution chain is our job 24/7. The highly trained
staff at Fapco can provide these services to your firm faster, more efficiently and at a
lower cost in labor and overhead.
3. Move expensive packaging equipment purchases, maintenance and facility costs
off your books.
The time has come for your company to ask the tough question, “Can we really afford to
handle all this packaging in house?” Fapco has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars
in the finest automated packaging equipment to increase your bottom line. We’ve already
made the investment in equipment, training operators, automated technology and the
square-foot cost to house the operation. Maintaining and servicing equipment and
facilities is yet another item transferred to Fapco. Continuing packaging operations inhouse is an expensive proposition. And the decision to pull the investment into expanding
these operations in-house can actually be a volatile move in this competitive global
environment. Fapco can provide you free analysis of these key scenarios with the cost
savings provided to your bottom line.
4. Handle seasonal and spike demand seamlessly with half the headaches.
The rush season is here. With it comes the seasonal work for your staff to handle the
packaging of all these parts and replacement kits. Many OEMs will call the temp agency,
un-tarp the packaging equipment, schedule the equipment maintenance and set up the
new temp training for the operation. Other manufacturers will make just one phone call-to Fapco. Take the burden off your internal operations and labor costs to handle spike
demand periods by partnering with a contract packager. Lower your temp, training,
management, labor, equipment, utility and facility costs. Dedicate that square footage to
manufacturing. Employ our experienced staff of packaging professionals who stand ready
to handle your flex periods—from receiving the orders through our system, to
warehousing excess projected parts left over from the program for next year—Fapco
understands flex-demand, seasonal packaging and fulfillment.
5. Improve your company’s capital management parts program—partner with a
contract packager as your Tier One supplier.
Take the burden of dealing with multiple parts suppliers off your staff. Partner with your
contract packaging firm to make them your primary, Tier One supplier for parts
fulfillment. Purchasing the parts and components, receiving the inventory, warehousing
and fulfilling parts are services now available to you from Fapco. Imagine dealing with
one supplier for your parts fulfillment plan instead of over 100. Let the contract packager
purchase, receive, inspect, assemble, package and hold the parts in their supply until they
are ready to be fulfilled. In today’s lean environment the following OEMs are good
candidates for Fapco’s Tier One Parts Purchasing Program: 1) limited parts warehouse
space, 2) too many parts suppliers in a given parts program, 3) the need to focus on more
key competencies in manufacturing, 4) companies in flux with either high growth or
down sizing, 5) a need to better expedite emergency orders for JIT delivery, 6) require
help with packaging engineering.
6. Improve your distribution and supply chain systems by adding a team of creative
logistics specialists with hundreds of years of combined experience.
From shipping to overseas ports, distribution centers, depots, terminals, stores,
dealerships or even the customer in their home, the Fapco staff has hundreds of years
combined experience to incorporate and fine-tune your logistics. Fapco offers a team of
experienced contract packaging and logistics specialists ready to help you with flex
demand, private labeling strategies, bar coding, strategic fulfillment services,
consolidation services, container and overseas shipping. When it comes to packaging,
Fapco can sort out cost savings solutions based on decades of implementing programs for
parts as large as diesel engines to poly bagging nuts and bolts. Partnering with Fapco
provides your company with a virtual team of experienced, packaging and distribution
experts without increasing your overhead.
7. Take advantage of a full-service, certified packaging design engineering staff
without adding a cent to your payroll.
Certified, degreed packaging engineers at Fapco have the experience and expertise to
help your company solve packaging challenges. Fapco provides innovative packaging
solutions as part of our overall services without burdening your resources in-house. Our
packaging engineering staff creates the best solutions to package, carton and ship your
products with the highest degree of protection for the lowest cost. Fapco has all the
solutions ready at your disposal--from carton packaging to poly bagging, large-part
crating to shrink wrapping. Whether your company has stringent packaging specifications
or is in need of packaging prototype development to ship a delicate part, Fapco stands
ready. And when it comes to print production for custom branding applications we have
you covered with in-house printing and secondary resources.
8. Eliminate warehousing facility, labor and management costs from your core
business.
Make sure your contract-packager has completely scalable warehousing and distribution
operations like Fapco. Fapco offers completely customizable, one-stop warehousing
services to OEM and tier suppliers. From complete online integration, ordering and
fulfillment processes, replenishment systems, and fast turnarounds, contract packagers
like Fapco can help your bottom line. These services are far more affordable for OEMs,
taking the place of staffing, equipping and maintaining a stand-alone warehouse facility.
Fapco can then take fulfillment orders through e-mail, fax or integrated online services.
Every part in the warehouse is stored within the system so Fapco can pull parts and fulfill
them on an as needed basis. Fapco can pull and ship parts with any shipping supplier a
customer prefers, be it FedEx, UPS or airfreight to meet the tight deadlines of expedited
orders anywhere in the world.
9. Take advantage of Fapco’s central location to service your customers.
Its Buchanan, Michigan location places Fapco within a five-hour radius of 44 million
people. Fapco’s strategic location to Tier One manufacturing suppliers and their OEMs
allows companies to benefit from close proximity to major markets: Fapco is just 90
miles from Chicago, 150 miles from Indianapolis, 140 miles from Toledo, 200 miles
from Detroit, 225 miles from Cleveland, 390 miles from St. Louis and just 585 miles
from Pittsburgh. For next day, small package ground and less-than-truckload services
Fapco’s location to the nearby South Bend, Indiana UPS hub has the second largest, overthe-road, overnight ground delivery, in terms of population, out of any of its U.S.
centers. This hub serves a next-day ground population of 47 million people. Less-thantruckload service provided by carriers like FedEx Freight reach over 70 million people
next day and nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population within two days.
10. Partner with a full service contract packager to consolidate much of your
manufacturing parts purchasing, packaging, warehousing and fulfillment business
into one supplier at one location.
The right full-service, contract packaging firm can drastically streamline your parts
supplier base, labor costs, warehousing, shipping and accounting systems into one major
supplier. Why deal with multiple parts suppliers on replacement parts programs when
you can just deal with one – Fapco. Stop shipping parts to multiple locations for different
packaging needs when Fapco has them all in one location. Eliminate the costs of
warehousing facilities, with the associated labor and overhead, by engaging Fapco’s
completely scalable warehousing resources. Let Fapco assist in your supply chain and
distribution network with direct ship options. And when you use a contract packager such
as fapco in combination with all these logistics disciplines, your company will experience
significant savings in ship-through cost alone. Why deal with literally hundreds of
suppliers when you can deal with just one – Fapco!