Sustainable Packaging workshop

Moving Beyond Reduce/Reuse/Recycle

Sustainable packaging gives future-focused firms a way to stand out among their peers and gain a competitive edge--at a time when packaging is in the crosshairs of environmentalists and regulators. Gain the benefits by reassessing the selection, use, and end-of-life possibilities for your packaging. You can gain long-term cost and value advantages. It helps you answer leading retailers and consumers who are developing higher expectations of the products and packaging.

This one-day PTIS Solutions Workshop™ helps you learn how:

  • To deliver triple bottom line benefits by integrating sustainable packaging with the product.
  • Retailers promote “green" stores, and their need for holistically designed products and packaging to mirror that
  • Companies can move to the forefront of sustainability
  • Voluntarily self-regulation often heads off more onerous regulation and set standards others must follow
  • Sustainable policies can be cash-neutral or even cash-positive
  • Consumers look for environmental and sustainability benefits in the products and packages

This workshop helps you refine sustainable packaging strategy and tactics. It is a management tool that uses the PTIS Critical Information Download (CID)™ process. That method focuses on developing business-enhancing ideas. These members of your team could benefit:

  • Top management
  • Product and packaging development
  • Marketing and brand managers
  • Supply chain management
  • Finance
  • Design professionals

In one day, your team develops an understanding of:

  • The latest environmental hot-button language—sustainability, eco-efficiency, eco-effectiveness, zero waste
  • Packaging’s local and global impact—as well as a look at consumer sentiment
  • The latest global regulations (pending and implemented) and the potential impact on packaging materials and costs in the US
  • The latest "environmentally friendly" materials and environmental benefits
  • Analysis of how sustainable development impacts packaging, including insights and best practices from Europe and Asia
  • How to work within your business model to meet long-term goals
  • Collaborative efforts across the value chain to standardize communication methodology and metrics

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Detailed agenda

We tailor the agenda to your needs. Here’s the core agenda Fortune 500 companies have followed to sharpen their teams’ focus:

Kick-off sets the group’s workshop goals. It uses a PTIS Ice Breaker with the Critical Insight Download (CID) Process. Example CID Question: What are the top three sustainable packaging  issues that your company faces over the next y three years? 8:30-9:15 am

Today’s sustainability terminology with CID. How shifting priorities affect sustainability objectives. Example CID Question: What are the sustainability terms and metrics that are most significant to your organization? 9:15-10:00 am

Break 10:00-10:15 am

Consumer and regulatory drivers and CID. How consumer trends and regulations are impacting packaging. Example CID Question: Which trends and regulations will shape package management and development over the next three years? 10:15-11:00 am

Analysis of “bio-friendly” materials and CID. Cost drivers and environmental benefits. Example CID question: Where can these materials support brand positioning and lead to cost-savings? 11:00-11:45 am

Lunch 11:45 am -12:30 pm

Analysis of sustainable processes and best practices from Europe and Asia and CID. PTIS shares a variety of cost saving/system optimization tools and processes; Europe has been working with sustainability longer and offers studies of successful programs and key watchouts. Example CID Question: What is the biggest challenge to implementing sustainable processes to your company? 12:30 -1:15 pm

Break 1:15-1:30 pm

Fit sustainability into your business model and CID. Sustainability has to support business objectives and this module brings together the earlier sessions and works to identify top opportunities to explore going forward. Example CID Question: What three sustainability tactics and strategies best fit your company’s goals? 1:30 – 3:15 pm

Develop a Press Release and “Elevator Speech.” Both actions are best practices to communicate the workshop’s accomplishments to others in the company and to define key business opportunities and next steps. 3:15 - 3:45 pm

PTIS/Group review and summary 

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About the presentation

The Workshop builds on PTIS proprietary research. You get unique insights and tactics. They are supplemented with secondary research, and all materials are current to 2010.
  • PTIS recommends either one full-day, or one-and-a-half days.
  • Your company provides the facility along with any refreshments and lunch.
  • PTIS provides the presentation with as many as 500 slides. The content can be modified to fit your time and group needs. PTIS can also customize to incorporate specific brand attributes and strategy components.
  • Presentation includes two PTIS instructors to present materials and facilitate Critical Insight Downloads.
  • Presentation includes a report on the workshop that incorporates the team notes on each CID along with key discussion points.
  • Each participant gets an electronic copy of the presentation slides and a licensed use of the slides. PTIS retains copyright to the materials it presents at the workshop.

Cost

  • One-day workshop with reasonable modifications to existing materials. Not more than 15 attendees: $9,500. Call to learn about further modifications, larger groups or other ways to customize to meet you needs.
  • Additional elements such as New Product Works facility and learnings can be added and priced separately.
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About the presenters

PTIS has a decade of business and packaging consulting experience. Its Principals and selected Associates trained in presenting and facilitating similar workshops lead the sessions. These PTIS Principals present the workshop, and PTIS brings in other Associates and subject matter experts who add value to meet your specific needs.

Phil McKiernan, Principal, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions

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Phil McKiernan brings over 20 years of new product development, productivity enhancement, and process-oriented business leadership to PTIS. Phil joined PTIS as a principal in 2008, with prior work as a PTIS Senior Associate. His resume includes leadership positions at organizations at Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Sweetheart Cup Company.

As a leader in the creation of new products and packaging, Phil guided cross functional teams in the development of multi-year product and intellectual property plans, leveraging consumer insights, technology trends and qualitative and quantitative research. Phil delivered a number of speed-to-market, cost savings and quality enhancements throughout his career. Phil is also a leader in sustainability and sustainable packaging. He is an expert in the Wal-Mart Sustainable Packaging Scorecard and modeling software and is qualified to teach the Sustainable Packaging Coalition Essentials of Sustainable Packaging workshop.

 

Todd Bukowski, Associate, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutionst_bukowski_100px

Todd Bukowski is a packaging professional with more than 15 years of packaging experience in food and pharmaceutical packaging. He has worked in both R&D and operations capacities. Todd's past work experience includes packaging development at Kraft Foods, M&M/Mars, and Tap Pharmaceuticals.

At PTIS, Todd has worked on technology search, package development process improvement workflows, packaging development strategy projects. He has been instrumental in many PTIS sustainability initiatives. He also tracks consumer, channel, sustainability, and technology trends. Todd was a lead presenter at the Future of Packaging 2007 – 2017 and Future of Sustainable Packaging 2008-2018 programs. Todd is also an instructor for the Sustainable Packaging Coalition’s Essentials of Sustainable Packaging course.

He holds an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University.

 

Brian Wagner, Principal, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutionsbrian_wagner_100px

Brian Wagner is a business and technical leader known for innovative solutions. He is a principal of Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions, and he builds on more than 20 years of business experience. His career includes positions with Kellogg, Sara Lee, Multiform Desiccants, Carton-Craft Corp., Burger King, and General Foods. He entered the Michigan State University School of Packaging Hall of Fame in 2008. He was also recognized as a Western Michigan Business Review 2008 Thought Leader.

Brian's career spans packaging, business development, sales, marketing, and operations. His hallmark is developing and communicating practical solutions to complex problems. This process is driven by knowledge of consumer and retailer needs, and Brian has led cutting edge consumer insight programs and worked to drive new methods to quantify packaging’s value in the marketplace.

 

m_richmond_100pxMike Richmond, Ph.D., Principal, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions

Mike Richmond is a strategic business and technical leader with 25 years of experience. He co-founded PTIS in 2000, building on experience with Kellogg, Kraft, and Michigan State University. At Kellogg, Mike developed and started up departments including Technology Discovery and Global Packaging Innovation. Mike was instrumental in developing and implementing strategic plans and programs nationally and globally for both Kraft and Kellogg. He led the research and development component of strategic sourcing at both companies, resulting in millions of dollars in savings.

In addition to strong vendor knowledge, Mike has brought new consumer and trade focus to the development of superior solutions to packaging problems globally. He also  is an expert in benchmarking and best practices. Mike has completed executive business programs at both Harvard and Thunderbird and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Alliance Foods.

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