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Returnable Packaging Calculator
Use the calculator to estimate how quickly your investment in returnable packaging can pay for itself.
How many cardboard boxes or cardboard containers do you use per year?
What is the average cost of each cardboard box used?
Additional cost for adhesives, shrink wrap, bands, and miscellaneous materials you will use.
$ X.XX MXN Annual cost of cardboard and miscellaneous currently used.
Annual hours incurred in cardboard box assembly.
Number of hours per year.
Labour cost per hour.
$ X.XX MXN Cost hours today.
Additional annual costs.
Total product damage (caused by misplaced staples, broken boxes, water contamination, etc) valued by damaged product annually.
Duplicate handling of packaging materials or repackaging between processes costed by duplicate material cost.
Storage costs for packaging materials.
$ 0.00 MN Total cost of using cardboard boxes in current packaging system.
Total number of returnable containers required to replace the Carton / Packaging System, consider the following.
• Number of containers packed each day.
• Number of containers collected in each collection.
• Frequency of collection.
• Time required to unpack and return containers (in days).
• Container loss due to loss, calculate 2% per year.
• Buffer inventory for peak seasons (if required).
Total amount of containers required.
Cost per plastic container.
$ 0.00 MN Cost of implementation of returnable packaging system.
Other potential costs.
Annual transportation cost of return of empty packages.
$ 0.00 MN Total implementation cost of the returnable system.