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How a Buyer Cut Packaging Costs 19 Percent with Reusables
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a surprisingly overlooked lever in procurement: reusable packaging. They walk through how a mid-sized food manufacturer, a company most listeners won't have heard of, cut packaging spend by 19 percent in eighteen months — not by negotiating harder with suppliers, but by changing what the packaging was made of and how it moved through the supply chain. The conversation covers the real numbers behind the switch, from an initial capital outlay of about $2 million to a payback period of just fourteen months, and the operational friction that almost…
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