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 PACK EXPO Con­fer­ence Presentations

Mea­sur­ing the Impact of Reusables
Reusable pack­ag­ing can pro­vide an effi­cient method to han­dle, store and move prod­uct through the sup­ply chain while also reduc­ing a company’s envi­ron­men­tal impact in terms of solid waste gen­er­a­tion, elec­tric­ity con­sump­tion and green­house gas emis­sions. But how can you mea­sure the envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fit? Life-cycle analy­sis is an effec­tive tool to mea­sure a product’s impact on the envi­ron­ment through­out its life cycle, from raw mate­r­ial extrac­tion to make the prod­uct to its dis­posal or recy­cling at the end of its use­ful life. This pre­sen­ta­tion out­lines the use and value of this impor­tant mea­sure­ment tool. Pre­sen­ter: Bob Klimko, ORBIS Cor­po­ra­tion, Direc­tor of Marketing-Retail Sup­ply Chain ORBIS Dri­ving Mea­sur­able Envi­ron­men­tal Results

Overview of the Nation­wide Use Reusables Cam­paign
The “Use Reusables” cam­paign is a joint project of Alameda County, CA pub­lic agency StopWaste.Org and the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion with finan­cial sup­port from the U.S. EPA. Use Reusables has helped many busi­nesses make the switch to reusable pack­ag­ing solu­tions, ben­e­fit­ing the company’s bot­tom line and mak­ing a pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tion to sus­tain­abil­ity efforts. This pre­sen­ta­tion pro­vides an overview of the campaign’s free resources, includ­ing a suite of online tools and edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als, work­shops and finan­cial assis­tance. The pre­sen­ta­tion also describes results achieved by com­pa­nies that have employed the resources of the cam­paign. Pre­sen­ter: Maia Colado­nato, Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer, SAIC Use Reusables.Org PACK EXPO Pre­sen­ta­tion 2012

Opti­mize Your Sus­tain­abil­ity Efforts through a Reverse Logis­tics Cen­ter Model
The pre­sen­ta­tion out­lines the sus­tain­abil­ity ben­e­fits and busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties that are pos­si­ble when a reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing pro­gram is sup­ported by a reverse logis­tics cen­ter. The pre­sen­ta­tion includes infor­ma­tion on how reusable asset track­ing and waste stream man­age­ment increases sup­ply chain effi­cien­cies and trans­lates into finan­cial sav­ings and rev­enue gen­er­a­tion. Pre­sen­ter: Matt Dan­nen­feldt, Vice Pres­i­dent of Logis­tics for Rehrig Pacific Com­pany Rehrig Pacific Presentation

Imple­ment­ing an Asset Track­ing Sys­tem is Eas­ier Than You Think – And It’s Key to Meet­ing New Reg­u­la­tions
Upcom­ing gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions such as the Food Safety Mod­ern­iza­tion Act (FSMA) require data cap­ture at numer­ous crit­i­cal con­trol points through­out the sup­ply chain. An asset track­ing sys­tem can auto­mate the required data cap­ture, and imple­ment­ing one is much eas­ier than most peo­ple think.

The pre­sen­ta­tion explains how to uti­lize an asset track­ing sys­tem to reduce labor, avoid loss, and auto­mate com­pli­ance with upcom­ing gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions. It goes through the 4 steps of review­ing avail­able tech­nolo­gies, review­ing sys­tems and use, setup and com­pli­ance, and imple­men­ta­tion. Pre­sen­ters: Keith Schall, Direc­tor of Busi­ness Sys­tems and Tech­nol­ogy; and Drew Mer­rill, Vice Pres­i­dent, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment and Strate­gic Plan­ning, CAPS.CAPS Asset Track­ing Presentation

Return­able Con­tainer Selec­tion Cri­te­ria
There are many fac­tors to weigh in order to select the most effec­tive reusable con­tainer. This pre­sen­ta­tion out­lines tools that are avail­able to help busi­nesses make informed deci­sions regard­ing the type, size and den­sity (parts per con­tainer) of the most effec­tive return­able con­tainer for their oper­a­tions. It also helps busi­nesses weigh oper­a­tional con­straints such as ergonom­ics, space in the man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions, avail­able stor­age space, inven­tory poli­cies, and oper­a­tor effi­ciency. These con­straints need to be bal­anced against inbound trans­porta­tion costs to pro­vide the low­est total deliv­ered cost of mate­r­ial to a plant or ware­house. Pre­sen­ters: Michael McGrath, Pres­i­dent of 3P Sup­ply Chain Engi­neer­ing Pre­sen­ta­tion , and Michael Kennedy, Vice Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions at 3P Sup­ply Chain Engi­neer­ing.
 

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

See related articles:

Man­ag­ing and Track­ing Reusable Assets: A Four-Stage Process
Track­ing Sys­tems and Mod­els for Reusable Assets

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

See Related Articles:

1. John Deere: Track­ing Reusables in a Global Assem­bly Man­u­fac­tur­ing Sup­ply Chain
2. Pack­ag­ing Rental and Pool­ing Mod­els in Perishables
3. Weigh­ing the Ben­e­fits and Com­plex­i­ties of Reusable Pack­ag­ing
    

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

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