The shock of COVID-19 and the potential for more shocks to the supply chain.

It is unrealistic to assume local capacity will be enough to sustain both the volumes and economics.

Therefore moving forward…

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging businesses to re-think in unique and different ways. The disruptions caused by the virus outbreak have left deep impacts on consumer behaviour and preferences. Customers are now increasingly exercising caution on what, where, and how they buy. As demand surges for essential products, companies across the globe have been scrambling to streamline their supply chains to secure immediate operations.

It is important to have a local specialist with a global reach that can react fast and understand your business so that you can access any region in the globe quickly.

The KEY FACTOR in managing a global packaging supply chain.

How efficiently are you managing your artwork and packaging production through a global supply chain?

Should one region close down, how fast can you transfer to another region and the key to doing that?

Working with a truly global supply chain of packaging manufactures is a good way to bring cost savings and better technologies to large volume production. However, this creates challenges where your brand and artwork is concerned.

The issue brand managers face when passing on their trusted and valued brand assets to printers around the world, is mainly with regards to proofing, amendments and poor lead-times to approval. The most common issues are time difference, poor communication and language barriers that lead to misunderstanding and critical errors in production.

We all want the best of both worlds and a risk-free process, however, it is rare to find that perfect balance of a global supply chain with UK operations in key areas.

DM Flexibles is one of many upcoming global packaging specialists that have targeted these areas of concern by bringing in-house and regionalising services within the key areas of the manufacturing chain. We offer a brand manager, a regional creative and artwork team who can efficiently manage the front end of the production process face to face, providing a safety net on the project. Therefore, you can now work with a truly global packaging partner and gain the following manufacturing benefits:

• Face to face sales and consultancy
• A single end to end point of communication within the UK
• Access to a specialist regional creative brand development agency
• Efficiency in proofing
• Ease of the amendment process
• A robust and lean transition of artwork into live production anywhere in the world
• Clean follow through into delivery

A truly global supply chain is the future and lean processing is the key to its success.