RPA Presentations

The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion main­tains copies of pre­sen­ta­tions from con­fer­ences, sem­i­nars, work­shops and other spe­cial events events.  Click on the pre­sen­ta­tions to view.

2012 RPA Con­fer­ence at MODEX
 

Reusable Pack­ag­ing – Effi­cient, Cost Effec­tive and Sus­tain­able Solu­tions for Today’s Sup­ply Chains – Pre­sented Feb­ru­ary 6, 2012 at MODEX show in Atlanta

Con­fer­ence Open­ing Remarks – Mike Hacht­man, Chair­man RPA
Hacht­man slides 

Sec­tion 1 – Bob Klimko, ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion, Chair­man RPA Edu­ca­tion Committee

• Why reusable/returnable pack­ag­ing is a grow­ing trend in today’s sup­ply chain envi­ron­ments
• Strate­gies and tools for how to assess whether reusables makes sense

Klimko slides 

Sec­tion 2 – Janet Smartt, Pro­gram Man­ager StopWaste.Org

• Lessons learned from com­pa­nies switch­ing from expend­able pack­ag­ing to reusable pack­ag­ing and how that is mak­ing a dif­fer­ence in our com­mu­ni­ties and the envi­ron­ment
• What some indus­tries are already doing

Smartt slides 

Sec­tion 3 — Paul Koleske, TOSCA, Ltd

• Which finan­cial strat­egy works best for you leas­ing vs. purchasing

Koleske slides 

Sec­tion 4 — Keith Schall, Con­tainer and Pool­ing Solu­tions (CAPS)

• How to man­age and pro­tect your valu­able reusable assets

Schall slides 

Sec­tion 5 — Sharon T. Spauld­ing, Pack­ag­ing Engi­neer­ing, IBM Poughkeepsie

• How IBM a lead­ing US com­puter and tech­nol­ogy com­pany uti­lizes reusable solu­tions in their sup­ply chains

Spauld­ing slides

PACK EXPO Las Vegas Con­fer­ence Ses­sion Pre­sen­ta­tions
Octo­ber, 2011

The Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (RPA) is mak­ing avail­able con­tent from four infor­ma­tive ses­sions con­ducted at PACK EXPO in Las Vegas. The ses­sions were designed to pro­vide reusable pack­ag­ing end users with help­ful infor­ma­tion about imple­ment­ing and man­ag­ing reusable prod­ucts in their sup­ply chains. Pre­sen­ters included RPA mem­bers and sup­ply chain pro­fes­sion­als from Ghi­rardelli Choco­late Com­pany, Coca Cola and Alpha Bakery.

To view all pre­sen­ta­tions click here

Fun­da­men­tals of Reusable Pack­ag­ing Work­shop at PACK EXPO
Tues­day, Novem­ber 2, 2010
PACK EXPO Chicago, IL

On Tues­day after­noon at PACKEXPO, the RPA pre­sented its Fun­da­men­tals of Reusable Pack­ag­ing Work­shop to a group of about 70 end users and mem­bers. RPA pre­sen­ters Jon Kalin of Rehrig Pacific, Bob Klimko of ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion, Lane Pence of CHEP USA, Drew Mer­rill and Keith Schall of CAPS, and Lyle Schmitt of John Deere Com­pany out­lined for atten­dees the first of four phases – Under­stand­ing — of imple­ment­ing a reusable pack­ag­ing strat­egy in a sup­ply chain.

To view the slides from the pre­sen­ta­tion click here

Other Past Presentations

2008 Edu­ca­tion Forum

The Sci­ence of Mea­sur­ing Envi­ron­men­tal Sus­tain­abil­ity
Bev­erly Sauer, Franklin Associates

Sup­ply Chain Eco­nom­ics — How Reusable Pack­ag­ing is Mea­sured
Diana Twede, Michi­gan State Uni­ver­sity School of Pack­ag­ing

Update on Reusable Sys­tems in Deere’s World­wide Logis­tics
Lyle Schmitt, John Deere

Sup­ply Chain Eco­nom­ics: User Cal­cu­la­tions & Indus­try Mod­els
Andy DeWitt, RPA Mod­el­ing Team, Tosca, Ltd.
Bob Klimko, RPA Mod­el­ing Team, ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion


2009 Choose Reusables Con­fer­ence at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Uti­liz­ing Reusable Pack­ag­ing in the Whirlpool Sup­ply Chain
Jen­nifer Schle­icher, Whirlpool Cor­po­ra­tion

The Energy & Cli­mate Ben­e­fits of the 3’s — Reduce, Reuse, Recy­cle
Sara Hartwell, U.S. EPA

Busi­ness Oppor­tu­ni­ties In New Reg­u­la­tory Era
Heidi San­born, CPSC

How Reusable Pack­ag­ing Fits Into a Sus­tain­able Busi­ness Strat­egy
Bob Klimko, ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion

How RFD & Reusable Pack­ag­ing Con­tribute to a Suc­cess­ful Sup­ply Chain Track­ing Sys­tem
Michael McCarnt­ney, QLM Con­sult­ing