Are you relying on a cooler and gel packs to protect your product's integrity? If so, it might be time to evaluate your packaging’s shipping performance.
A cold chain system that has been developed without proof of performance may not be meeting the demands of your product’s requirements or the shipping conditions it must weather in transit.
If you can’t remember ever completing a shipping profile or testing shipping performance, this guide will help you feel confident in your product's integrity.
Establish the Conditions: First, you need to know your product's safe temperature range. Next, how long is it in transit? Is it shipped via ground or air? Be sure to account for potential delivery delays.
You need to clearly examine the real-world conditions your product must endure.
Assess Your Materials: From coolant materials to the packaging itself, what items are included in your pack-out process? When your shipping solution has failed to maintain optimal conditions for your product, what was the weak link?
Look at the Process: In particular, examine your pack-out process and your training procedures. Are your employees following the exact specifications demonstrated in training? Are processes consistent across every employee?
The shipping solution only works when the packaging is used as tested and qualified.
Know the Combination: Being well-versed in every component that goes into shipping performance helps you identify potential weaknesses. The right cold chain packaging, coolant, configuration, conditioning, and shipping procedures must be engineered to protect your product’s integrity for the required duration.
Turn it Over to the Experts: Another option is perhaps your best. Integritemp reviews your temperature requirements, payload, transport conditions, time required and current shipping solutions. We identify potential failure points to assess whether the solution is meeting expectations, as well as where there is an opportunity to improve it.
In other words, let’s see if your packaging is built for the ways your product is actually shipped.
For more information about a comprehensive shipping packaging evaluation, reach out to us at Integritemp. We look forward to talking with you about optimizing your cold chain solutions.