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Discover how reusable auto parts packaging programs with asset management can help solve your complex circular supply chain challenges.

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The Problem

Depending on your role in the auto & truck parts industry, you may face challenges related to your packaging and supply chain:

  1. For manufacturers and suppliers, current packaging is often disposable, which is costly and unfriendly to the environment. Made of wood, this packaging is often heavy and awkwardly shaped, making it more difficult to handle for retailers and dealers.
  2. For auto repair shops and dealers who offer products that require refurbishment or a return to the manufacturer during its lifecycle, recovery of these items and delivery requires coordination of complex logistics.

You should not have to worry about creating these programs from scratch.

Reusability has experience designing and developing solutions and is ready to help.

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The Solution

We help auto and truck manufacturers and suppliers convert from disposable packaging to reusable packaging for shipments to OEMs, dealers and retailers. For 20+ years, we’ve provided rental racks and asset recovery. Managing 100,000+ of our own assets, we’ve completed over 10,000,000 recoveries. 

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No matter where you are in your reusable auto parts packaging journey, we have the solution for you.

Design

 

We partner with the best reusable packaging design firms to develop eco-friendly, durable, and cost-effective packaging for our customers. If you don't have reusable packaging, we leverage our consulting expertise to help in design and development. If you have an existing design but are looking for improvement, we share best practices to enhance your existing design. 

Manage

When our partners ship their reusable packaging to retailers and dealers, our proprietary software enables them to track and manage their assets and see the economic and environmental impact of their reusable packaging programs.

 

We manage hundreds of thousands of our own assets so we know what it takes to manage successful programs.

Recover

Leveraging our expertise in recovery, we handle the management and pick-up of all reusable packaging assets. With our 40+ strategically placed facilities nationwide, we handle all logistics of asset recovery including full inspection and quality assurance. We also assist with refurbishment solutions, product sorting, kitting, repackaging, warehousing, recycling and storage solutions.

With Reusability, auto & truck parts manufacturers save up to 50% on their packaging costs over 3 years.

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How Reusable Packaging Programs Work

No matter where you are in your reusable journey, our multi-step management process ensures you see the ROI of reusable packaging with as little capital outlay as possible.

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Packaging Development: If you don't already have reusable packaging, we connect you to one of our design partners who will create options, financial analysis benchmarks, and prototype development of a returnable solution for your products.

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Shipment: Once packaging is designed and developed, customers ship their product in reusable packaging, which they own or rent, to their customers (Dealers, OEMs, Distributors, Retailers, Installers) and inform us of where they ship.

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Status Confirmation: We leverage our proprietary software to email, text, or call locations to confirm that empty packaging is ready for pickup and dispatch our agents.

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Recovery: Our agents recover empty packaging along specified routes and return to regional facilities.

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Repackaging and Quality Control: We consolidate shipments at our regional facilities, inspect for damage, and repair per your custom requirements.

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Return: We return packaging to our customers, generally in full truckload quantities, ready to be used again.

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Once the program is established, we focus on continuous improvement to ensure the best financial and sustainability results for our customers.

Reverse Logistics for Returns Management

For dealers and auto repair shops who offer products that require refurbishment or a return to the manufacturer, we will handle the logistics of recovery for you.

We’ve fulfilled 10,000,000 recoveries of returnable assets to date from our 10,000+ retailer locations, so we know what it takes to deliver successful reverse logistics programs.

Through our proprietary software, we track and manage the recovery process and other aspects of the program to provide you with top-notch reporting and visibility. Our solution enables you to increase production and add additional returns quickly and seamlessly.

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Program Benefits

Cost Savings

You’ll reduce the number of units purchased with reusable packaging, and we will handle the processing and pick up. This means you’ll save on labor and logistics cost. On average, our programs have a 13-month payback period.

Reduce Waste

Sustainability is at the heart of many corporations today. Reusable packaging means no more wood going to landfills, less energy used, and less total greenhouse gas emissions.

Safer Choice

You’ll improve your workplace safety by eliminating the workplace injuries experienced with disposable wooden packaging. No more need to build and tear-down single-use packaging or handle broken debris.

Product Protection

Reusable packaging is durable and sturdy, and designed specifically for your product. Moving to reusables reduces the frequent damages that are caused by inconsistent single-use, wooden packaging.

Retailer Network

We currently manage assets that are sent to some of the largest retailers in the world, including The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Sam’s Club and more. We will support you on a national scale when it comes to recovering reusable packaging.

Higher Turns

Our accurate pickups save clients over 30% with faster turnover. The shape of reusable packaging often allows for better utilization of trucks, as units can often be stacked. This means improved logistics and transportation efficiencies, which result in fewer trips and reduced fuel costs.

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Case Study

See how a reusable packaging program saved a transport temperature control manufacturer $1,000,000 and 2,000 tons of solid waste to landfills annually.

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Retailers Love Reusability

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“…For retailers, environmental concerns are top of mind. Any product brought into stores - in boxes, crates, racks, whatever - they prefer to see that packing material immediately taken away for reuse. I know The Home Depot and Costco have so many environmental concerns, they want solutions so that they do not have to worry about a product’s packaging being put in the dumpster…” 

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