Ever thought about uncovering some hidden ways to save money on your custom cereal box packaging? A decade ago, this wasn’t a priority for cereal manufacturers. Fast forward to this day, brands are keen to bring their packaging cost down as warehousing and transportation costs are only steadily increasing.

Despite the familiarity with the notion, many cereal manufacturers are still struggling to identify how exactly they can reduce their packaging cost by avoiding the bigger problems down the line. According to the experts at The Legacy Printing, a good place to start is with small changes that lead to big shifts.

Below are a few prolific ways to save money on your custom cereal boxes.

Re-evaluate Your Packaging Size

Think about reducing the size of your primary packaging. Because sometimes even a trivial change to the packing leads to a big reduction in overall cost.

For instance, a cereal manufacturer decides to redesign its packaging so that the height and length of the box were reduced by 2/8th and 1/16th of an inch. This is almost an indiscernible change, but the small reduction in size allowed the company to use pallet better and pack a sizeable portion.

This change eventually results in lower transportation cost, which means you’ll get to save more on your custom cereal boxes every year.

Alter the Size of Secondary Packaging

Altering the size of your shipping case can also allow you to make huge savings. For example, by slightly changing the size of your secondary packaging a prominent retailer was able to add another layer of product on the pallet.

The extra layer allowed them to ship more product by reducing the number of shipments.

Increase the Product Count

Sure, changing the size of your packaging can work wonders for a cereal manufacturer but sometimes you don’t need to change the size of the packing. All you need to do is change the count so you can slide in more products.

A renowned health and beauty brand managed to save a quarter of a million dollars by altering the packing which allowed the company to encase more products by reducing the package profile. The new packaging enabled the brand to increase product density by 50 percent.

An increased product density creates a kind of ripple effect and gains efficiencies in storage as well as transportation.

Make Smart Changes

Sometimes you don’t even need to change the overall size of your cereal box packaging. One day a cereal company’s executive began to wonder whether he could make use of less material to craft secondary packaging for cereal boxes.

At that point, the company was transporting its cereal boxes in fully covered slotted cartons that were created by pasting the flaps together. This creates a gap in the middle but it still allowed the brand to ship cereal boxes.

This simple change alone saved the firm around 20 percent on the shipping case material, which means the company has managed to save a little over a million dollars when it comes to material savings during a year.

All they did was moved the nozzles by a mere inch on the case erector and saved a huge amount of cash.