With supply-chain challenges more front-and-center of public awareness and concern, optimizing the product journey and protecting upstream value has proved to be increasingly essential.

Walk into any store and one encounters a plethora of products. The typical Walmart has more than 120,000 different product SKUs available. Each one required packaging consumables to safely make it to store shelves. 

By the end of this century, our planet will be home to another four billion people, with Africa’s population nearly tripling and making up almost half the world’s population. 

A new study by SourceHUB, provider of a collaborative technology platform for packaging procurement, found that automating specifications and artwork processes in the packaging procurement process can result in key efficiency gains as up to as much as 30%.