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• Packaging Projects/Solutions Overview
• Packaging Focus Areas
• Packaging Innovation and Development
• Packaging Solutions
• Packaging Process/Cost Reduction
• Packaging Design Software/Standard

Packaging Design, Development, & Consulting

Packaging Projects/Solutions Overview

Alison’s company, AVA packaging solutions, brings a unique innovative focus to client
organisations: a blend of technical with creative and commercial areas to drive innovation
and packaging projects through to fruition.

AVA packaging solutions holds a proven record of delivering innovations and


performance improvements to the market place and have won a number of packaging
innovation and merit awards. They also have an impressive track record of delivering
effective cost reductions and efficiencies.

Innovative Packaging Solutions

AVA packaging solutions offers innovative packaging solutions in the following areas:

• Effective cost savings, sourcing strategies and complexity reduction programmes.


• Packaging innovation and development – primary, secondary and transit
packaging.
• Time-compression for speed-to-market. Realistic pack models in days for better
decisions and faster tooling to slash development lead-times.
• Team and process development and optimisation.
• Design-for-manufacture - early assurance of achievable concepts and designs.
• Strategic planning, feasibility and implementation of new packaging, technologies
and suppliers.
• Graphic design management from artwork to print.
• Market research and analysis. Marketing your company to customers.
• BRC-IOP Packaging Standard consultancy and evaluations.
• Short-term specialist skills for expertise in management, resource or skills gaps –
project management, advice and trouble-shooting.

Packaging Consultancy for Packaging Requirements

AVA packaging solutions is a professional, independent packaging consultancy able to


help you with your packaging requirements. Our key focus areas are:

• Effective cost reduction


• Innovation and development
• Speed-to-market
• Team and process optimisation

Specialising within the fast moving consumer goods industry, AVA provides effective
packaging solutions to packers, retailers, design agencies and suppliers. Through
understanding your needs and a structured approach AVA delivers optimised solutions
tailored for your organisation.

Bridging the gap between creative, technical and commercial, we are adept in working
with all players within the industry, securing the best from them and directing them to
effectively meet your packaging needs and requirements.

AVA takes pride in delivering packaging solutions to achieve your brief with an effective
service that represents value for money.

To solve your packaging requirements please contact AVA for a free initial discussion to
agree how we can help and to propose a solution for you

Packaging Development Expertise in Food & Non-Food Categories

AVA packaging solutions links via strategic alliances into a wide network of independent
consultants and expertise and has access to specialist facilities such as design, rapid
prototyping, marketing, market research, systems, software, merchandising, POS and
training.

With extensive industry knowledge and experience of all packaging and print materials
and processes, AVA packaging solutions will bring a strategic and innovative focus to
your packaging.

Our experience spans food and non-food categories within manufacturing and retail
environments.

AVA packaging solutions draws upon many years’ blue chip packaging development
expertise and a record of delivering innovations and performance improvements in
packaging and print within

• Diageo
• Tesco
• WM Grant & Sons
• Sara Lee
• Safeway
• Marks & Spencer
• Kettle Produce
• Procter & Gamble
• The Boots Company
• Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages
• UCB Lyons Tetly
• Motherare
• Well Wel Well
• RHM Le Pain Croustillant
• AWA bv
• Charles Worthington
• Cepi Eurokraft
• Bodyshop
• Creightons
• Society of Cosmetic Scientists
• The Packaging Group

Alison Vincent, Managing Director, has held hands-on and strategic senior management
roles in both domestic and international scope. She is a qualified professional holding an
MBA, BSc Honours and is a Member of the Institute of Packaging.

Packaging Focus Areas

AVA packaging solutions is an independent packaging consultancy with extensive up-to-


date industry experience of blue-chip fast moving consumer goods, retailers,
manufacturers and their suppliers; extensive experience in FMCG packaging including
food & drinks, cosmetics & toiletries and household categories.

6 key areas of focus

• Packaging innovation and development including project management


• Identification and delivery of effective cost reduction and sourcing strategies
• Fast speed-to-market
• Establishing and optimizing people and processes
• Packaging specification and design software
• BRC-IOP Packaging standard and Hygiene consultancy

We have a proven record of delivering innovations and performance improvements to the


market place and have won a number of packaging innovation and merit awards. We also
have a track record of delivering effective cost reductions and efficiencies.

We establish sourcing strategies for packaging materials and are adept at supplier
evaluation and management. We have successfully consolidated the supply base of blue-
chip organizations to deliver cost benefits and controls. We are familiar with the new
BRC/IOP Packaging Standard and Alison is lead assessor qualified.

We have extensive technical and commercial experience of all packaging and print
materials, processes, suppliers, supply chain and industry structure and dynamics.

Our experience spans food and non-food within retail and manufacturing, in hands-on to
strategic management roles in both UK and international scope.

We work with all industry players, locally and internationally, obtaining the best from
them and directing them to meet project requirements to drive initiatives to successful
implementation. Naturally, we are accomplished at project management, supplier
management, cost analysis and negotiation and establishing optimized teams and
processes.We work with manufacturers, retailers, design agencies & packaging suppliers
to provide innovative strategies and hands-on solutions that work.

Packaging Innovation and Development

Whether you are looking for a strategic input and fresh approach to your existing ways or
perhaps you do not have the internal skills or resource to manage and drive packaging
developments we are able to help you.

We provide a complete serve from idea generation, through development of packaging


optionsand technical complexities, specification, sourcing and commercial aspects,
samples and management of trials and technical and consumer testing and project
management through to on-shelf launch.

We are able to either provide a full service or to tailor elements from the menu to deliver a
service that dovetails with your own abilities.

You will benefit from innovative packaging developments, to promote your products
and brands.

Packaging Solutions

Rapid development techniques allow the design and development of 3-dimensional


packaging and assemblies using digital CAD data. Once designs are approved on-screen,
a prototype model can be made within hours. The prototypes are working models - used
to check fit, function, compatibility with production and filling lines and market research.
The design can quickly be perfected at low cost.

Very early in the process you have a fully agreed design – no more judging designs from a
paper technical drawing, only to wait weeks and spend £thousands on tooling and to then
find the design is not ideal and face re-work or live with second best. Very quickly you
are able to proceed with confidence into rapid scale-up or production tooling to cut time-
to-market, costs and increase the certainty of NPD success. In addition we can open up an
arena of custom designs for lower volumes. We can manage this process and provide
samples for you.

We can also advise on additional techniques to speed graphic design management as well
as project management to ensure swift processing with the correct levels of control.

Packaging Process/Cost Reduction

Establishing and Optimising Processes and teams

We can benchmark, review and set up or enhance existing processes – such as the New
Product Development process – to bring this to world class standard ensuring it is
effective and streamlined but with the right controls at the right places and the right
people involved at the key points. Through reviewing the steps you take we can also
often enable you to cut time to market, especially if the above rapid development
technologies are also involved.

In parallel, if you are setting up or reviewing a new packaging development or buying


team we can review how you mange and control all aspects of packaging and help to
understand the skills and competencies required and whether these are best located
internally or sourced externally. We help companies in suggesting optimal structures for
teams and functions – number of roles, skills, roles and responsibilities, location of the
team within the organisation, reporting structures, etc.

Identification and Delivery of effective cost reduction and sourcing strategies

We are able to help you in identifying and delivering effective packaging related cost
savings, taking a total picture approach. We can optimize specifications to ensure you are
using appropriate specification for the job and where appropriate we can rationalise
duplication and complexity of specifications and formats to ensure you simplify your
operations and drive economies of scale.

We can manage the sourcing and tender processes for you to deliver cost savings and our
knowledge of the supply base and supplier approvals will ensure optimized sourcing
strategies for your organization.

Speed-to-Market

How can a Formula 1 team develop and launch a car – far more complex than most
packaging – in a season? Through analysis of the F1, automotive and aerospace industries
we have identified the enabling technologies and processes that allow rapid development.
By applying the relevant techniques to packaging developments packaging projects can
develop faster with lower cost and less re-work, delay and risk.

Packaging Design Software/Standard

Packaging Design and Specification Software

Whether you need a standard system or tailored specification and document control
system to design and control your packaging specifications, technical drawings, bills of
materials, pallet plans and link with SAP system, we can provide the ideal solution
together with full technical back-up and training plans to meet your needs.

BRC-IOP Packaging standard consultancy

We are able to help packaging suppliers by providing BRC-IOP Packaging Standard


consultancy to help you to attain the level of performance required to achieve BRC-IOP
Packaging Standard accreditation – key where retailers now stipulate their own brand
products should have packaging supplied by accredited companies. We can also help
with Hygiene training.

We also provide help in other areas so if your needs are not listed here please do contact
us to discuss how we can help provide a solution for you

http://www.idspackaging.com/packaging/europe/Alison_Vincent_Associates/Packagi
ng_Innovation_Consultancy_Development/10_0/g_supplier.html

Packaging Consultancy, Innovation & Development

Packaging Focus Areas

AVA packaging solutions is an independent packaging consultancy with extensive up-to-


date industry experience of blue-chip fast moving consumer goods, retailers,
manufacturers and their suppliers; extensive experience in FMCG packaging including
food & drinks, cosmetics & toiletries and household categories.

6 key areas of focus

• Packaging innovation and development including project management


• Identification and delivery of effective cost reduction and sourcing strategies
• Fast speed-to-market
• Establishing and optimizing people and processes
• Packaging specification and design software
• BRC-IOP Packaging standard and Hygiene consultancy

We have a proven record of delivering innovations and performance improvements to the


market place and have won a number of packaging innovation and merit awards. We also
have a track record of delivering effective cost reductions and efficiencies.

We establish sourcing strategies for packaging materials and are adept at supplier
evaluation and management. We have successfully consolidated the supply base of blue-
chip organizations to deliver cost benefits and controls. We are familiar with the new
BRC/IOP Packaging Standard and Alison is lead assessor qualified.

We have extensive technical and commercial experience of all packaging and print
materials, processes, suppliers, supply chain and industry structure and dynamics.

Our experience spans food and non-food within retail and manufacturing, in hands-on to
strategic management roles in both UK and international scope.

We work with all industry players, locally and internationally, obtaining the best from
them and directing them to meet project requirements to drive initiatives to successful
implementation. Naturally, we are accomplished at project management, supplier
management, cost analysis and negotiation and establishing optimized teams and
processes.We work with manufacturers, retailers, design agencies & packaging suppliers
to provide innovative strategies and hands-on solutions that work

http://www.idspackaging.com/packaging/europe/AVA_packaging_solutions/Packagin
g_Consultancy_Standard/10_0/g_supplier_2.html

Effective Packaging Development, Cost Reduction and


Market

Packaging Process/Cost Reduction

Establishing and Optimising Processes and teams

We can benchmark, review and set up or enhance existing processes – such as the New
Product Development process – to bring this to world class standard ensuring it is
effective and streamlined but with the right controls at the right places and the right
people involved at the key points. Through reviewing the steps you take we can also
often enable you to cut time to market, especially if the above rapid development
technologies are also involved.

In parallel, if you are setting up or reviewing a new packaging development or buying


team we can review how you mange and control all aspects of packaging and help to
understand the skills and competencies required and whether these are best located
internally or sourced externally. We help companies in suggesting optimal structures for
teams and functions – number of roles, skills, roles and responsibilities, location of the
team within the organisation, reporting structures, etc.

Identification and Delivery of effective cost reduction and sourcing strategies

We are able to help you in identifying and delivering effective packaging related cost
savings, taking a total picture approach. We can optimize specifications to ensure you are
using appropriate specification for the job and where appropriate we can rationalise
duplication and complexity of specifications and formats to ensure you simplify your
operations and drive economies of scale.

We can manage the sourcing and tender processes for you to deliver cost savings and our
knowledge of the supply base and supplier approvals will ensure optimized sourcing
strategies for your organization.

Speed-to-Market

How can a Formula 1 team develop and launch a car – far more complex than most
packaging – in a season? Through analysis of the F1, automotive and aerospace industries
we have identified the enabling technologies and processes that allow rapid development.
By applying the relevant techniques to packaging developments packaging projects can
develop faster with lower cost and less re-work, delay and risk

http://www.idspackaging.com/packaging/europe/AVA_packaging_solutions/Effective_
Packaging/10_0/g_supplier_5.html

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