Why contract packing
Manufacturing capacity continues to focus into a small number of large, inflexible, automated plants, unable to produce small batches cost effectively. Against this background, there is a greater call from brand managers and manufacturers for products to be tailored and taken quickly to market.
The solution
Cannon contract packing is the solution. It is a highly flexible secondary process that adds value by converting stored products or parts into finished products and solutions. In some cases, further assembly will be required, in others, they may need to be re-packed and labelled, before shipping direct to customers. Whatever your need, Cannon has the answers.
Decades of experience
Since the early 1960’s, Cannon has been providing contract packing and fulfilment services, allowing it to add significant value to warehousing and distribution services and bring major economies of scale to clients. Over the last 40 years, the company has packed hundreds of millions of items for hundreds of companies.
Safe hands
Today, the business has a team of over 125 staff, totally dedicated to delivering high quality contract packing services for any product outside the food sector. Cannon continues to make significant investment in machinery and systems, allowing it to enhance the hand packing services that have founded the business. The company completes more than 80,000 packs every day, with a success rate consistently higher than 99 per cent.
Enhance your margins
By offering such economies of scale and with full access to the Cannon distribution network, companies can make huge savings by outsourcing their storage and fulfilment operations. These significant cost savings will make it straight through to the bottom line, whilst levels of customer service will improve.
Consultative approach
Cannon works in partnership with its customers and aims to continually increase operational efficiencies, helping customers to drive down distribution costs. By re-defining key processes within one major packing client, we have been able to strip £80,000 worth of cost from their business over the last 12 months. It is this approach that makes Cannon different from other contract packers and explains why Cannon clients renew their contracts again and again.
Traceability
All production is fully traceable via production records, batch labelling and the computer system, from receipt of components through assembly/collation to final delivery. The latest systems can also provide on line proof of deliveries.
From container to customer
Cannon can receive products by the container load, before de-stuffing, storing, picking orders, packing and distributing your products. Whether it’s a single item, or a pallet load, it can provide every method of despatch including pallets, parcels or even letter post.
Pack to demand
If you want to cut costs and reduce obsolescence, Cannon’s tightly controlled pack to demand strategy can help. By reducing the amount of stock you hold and by only packing to order, your customers will also receive better service, whilst you can tailor each product to meet specific customer needs more effectively. In some markets, this can significantly improve profitability, particularly in aftermarket spares management.
Hand assembly
There are many jobs that cannot be cost-effectively assembled, labelled, glued, packed or collated by machine. Our team of over 125 loyal packaging staff can adapt to many types of complex assembly or collating exercises, with quality and efficiency.
E-commerce
All packing is managed by our integrated computer system, which can be linked to our customers on line sales or order processing systems, for instant communication of sales orders, stock control, production and despatch. Fully web enabled systems allow clients to review progress from anywhere, instantly.
Find out more
If you would like to find out more about Cannon's range of packing services, please contact Jason Horn on 01235 232000, or complete the
enquiry form. All enquires will treated with the strictest of confidence.
