E-Pack
The increasing popularity of e-commerce has led to a growing demand for sustainable packaging solutions. VIL’s E-Pack project aims to explore the potential of reusable packaging in the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.
status: Starting up |
theme:
Green Supply Chains |
type:
Regional
Consumers are dissatisfied with excessive cardboard packaging for their online purchases. Meanwhile, the logistics sector seeks packaging that is more standardized and durable.
Standardized packaging will simplify handling, improve stackability, enable more automated packing and sorting, and reduce costs. Robust packaging will better protect contents and minimize damage during transportation and logistics processes.
Goal
In this project, VIL aims to introduce reusable packaging in the B2C market to promote local and sustainable online businesses.
Opportunities
This project offers opportunities for greater standardization (efficient transportation and automated packaging processes), improved representation to better meet customer demand and potential new initiatives that can lead to profitable business models (e.g. pooling reusable packaging).
Specific activities
- Gaining insight into the demands for reusable packaging.
- Gaining insight into the role and impact of the customer: What would it take to encourage consumers to use reusable packaging? At what point would the consumer consider using reusable packaging?
- Developing return scenarios: How to organize returns more cost-efficiently and ecologically?
- Evaluating logistics return concepts from a broad scope.
- Developing a Proof of Concept and learning lessons from it.
Practical details
Start: June 2021
Total Lead Time: 21 months
Would you like to know more?
Contact Ludo Sys (ludo.sys@vil.be)
Target group
The project targets companies active in e-commerce:
- Logistics service providers
- Webshops
- Companies and organisations active in the packaging (material) sector
- Companies active in collection and return technology, data management systems, etc…
