Analysis of Packaging Products for Storage or Distribution at Guardian

This report examines the packaging of products for storage and distribution at Guardian Drug Company, a pharmaceutical and biochemical company. It identifies cold-chain packaging as an area for improvement, emphasizing the need to protect delicate drugs from damage and contamination during transportation and storage. The report discusses the benefits of cold-chain containers, including temperature control, product protection, and improved stacking. It outlines the implementation of cold-chain packaging, including active, passive, and hybrid systems, and highlights the importance of vaccine management. The report recommends focusing on off-the-shelf solutions for cost-effectiveness and avoiding custom-designed solutions. It stresses the need for barrier protection, customer satisfaction, barcode labels, and product traceability to optimize the cold-chain packaging system and enhance Guardian Drug Company's operations.

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Introduction
The appropriate packaging of different products for storage or distribution in every
organization just like in Guardian Company remains to have a significant influence on the
efficiency of the logistical system. In most cases, costs of different logistics packaging are
always considered or measured by various designers for packaging, nor by logistic designers.
There is a need to protect different products, as well as materials during transportation,
distribution, along with storage through the available variety of packaging types, are applicable.
For instance, most organizations use different techniques of packaging such as defensive
dunnage, containers, unitizing items tending to hold various materials jointly to outline absolute
load, along with pallets offering steady platforms for transporting different goods (Voroskoi and
Borocz 2016, p. 191). Besides, all these packaging components come in a range of different
sizes, shapes, and materials. The size of packaging used by Guardian Company depends on
materials or merchandise that needed to protect. Classic applications of the active technique for
packaging that Guardian Company uses embrace sharing and safeguarding vast items, masses, or
entity items used for delivery along with receiving, arranging different merchandise in stationary
or preset storage schemes as well as performing as vessels to grip items for the separate order
(Dominic 2012, p. 54). Therefore, the principal target of this research paperwork is to examine
the area of improvement about the packaging of products for storage or distribution in Guardian
Company that deals with Pharmaceutical and Biochemical. The paper also targets at discussing
the typical development that can be implemented as well as how those improvements in
packaging systems can be implemented efficiently.

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An area of improvement with regards to the packaging of products for storage or
distribution in Guardian Pharmaceutical Company
Cold-chain packaging system
The need to reduce packaging damage during distribution along with transportation
through the supply chain, Guardian Drug Company, needs to examine how different costs to the
products occur while pondering these questions. There is a need of improving the cold-chain
packaging by the company as a way of ensuring that the delicate drugs are not easily destroyed
by either adverse weather conditions during packaging, or destroyed by different organisms that
can contaminate the drugs (van der Merwe et al., 2013, p. 652). The focus on the cold-chain
packaging can be the new holistic approach that the company can use to improve its operations
of packaging optimization and manage the cost of small packages delicate drugs. The use of this
packaging system during storage or distribution of the product can help in protecting the product
that the company deals with from damage or contamination by different microorganisms and air,
toxins, together with moisture. Besides, improving the packaging of products by use of cold-
chain containers can help in keeping the drugs during distribution and storage together by
containing the products so that the drugs do not spill (Chen and Cai 2012, p. 611). Besides,
improving temperature of containers during storage can help in developing how the company
identifies the products. The use of cold-chain containers during transportation, distribution, and
storage can assist in improving how the products are stacked so that delicate drugs do not
become spoilt during the process of putting different products on top of others.
Guardian Drug Company has been under pressure to deliver more value through
improved packaging logistics. Besides, increase taxes and charges, expenses of understanding

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and complying with ever more complex regulations in Pharmaceutical sector continuously raise
the cost of operating business for Guardian and this make it challenging to sustain profits. The
need to improve the packaging of products for storage or distribution through the use of cold-
chain packaging containers can bring considerable benefits to operations of Guardian (Rawal and
Sagar 2012, p. 2). The idea can help the company’s packaging logistics professionals to increase
their efficiencies in the supply chain while retaining the confidence of different shareholders by
their advancement in operations. Furthermore, cold-chain containers that the company can focus
on usage and packaging of products for storage or distribution need to be receptacles that can
hold, protect, as well as organize product and material during the process. These cold chain
containers for operations can end up the diversity of types that include cartoon, bags, cylinders,
barrels, and gears among another form (The Lancet 2013, p. 793). The conventional materials
that need to be used in making these cold chain packaging should comprise corrugated
cardboard, metals such as aluminium and steel. Other materials used to improve the packaging to
cold chain containers should include corrugated plastics, welded wire mesh, together with high-
density polythene that remains to be the material most regularly applicable in structuring of
different returnable together with reusable vessels for drugs packaging.
Usage of improved packaging containers that are cold chain will help in ensuring that
sensitive products of Guardian Drug Company remain in the saleable. It also ensure that these
products remains in an usable condition for the extended period despite being transported by the
distance of up to several thousand of miles and time periods that can last for several days (Dyer
2014, p. 6452). The objective of Guardian Company to concentrate on transporting its drugs to
faraway places around global society make the use of cold-chain packaging to be the ideal
method as it offers the total transport solution. For instance, containers with sealed air tend to

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ensure the safe along with the secure distribution of cold-chain packaging of controlled
temperature on different products that the company offers such as pharmaceuticals. The
packaging system can also help in improving the lifetime of different drugs and chemicals used
for treating various patients (Olsson and Gyorei 2012, p. 236). The packaging can improve
conditions of products during for storage or distribution as the system offers the protective
solution that reduces void fill, control cases of vibration, insulates drugs against changes in
temperature, as well as minimizing costs of freights.
How to implement the Cold-Chain Packaging
Guardian Drug Company can focus on the practical way of achieving the technique of
using cold-chain packaging of its products for storage or distribution as a way of improving its
services and goods delivery. The system of cold chain packaging can form the ideal packaging
designed with the purpose of maintaining perfect temperature sensitive payloads at the
appropriate temperature such as cold, warm, or frozen (Gromo et al., 2014, p. 14092. The
implementation of this system of cold chain system can be of the different form. These forms
comprise active, passive, as well as hybrid systems for packaging different drugs for storage or
distribution around the healthcare sector. The company should consider this packaging system
for storage or distribution as it comprises of several advantages (Ndukwu 2017, p. 23). For
instance, logistic packaging of cold chain entails series of activities that relate to the management
of required temperature-controlled within the chain of supply. The implementation intends to
protect as well as maintain the appropriate temperature for different cargos while avoiding delays
in the process of storage or distribution that can later result in late shipments together with
spoiled pharmaceutical products. The implementation has to focus on the procedures required for

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storage, clearance of customs, along with the selection of the necessary storage materials
(Magnier and Schoormans 2017, p. 748). Besides, management of Guardian Drug Company has
to understand that vaccine management remains to be a vital factor in the cold chain packaging
for storage or distribution of pharmaceuticals.
Conclusion
The implementation of the use of cold chain packaging system for storage or distribution
of different products by the company has to include discussion of pre-qualified and custom
tertiary packaging. The need to concentrate on the use of off-the-shelf solution should be taken
into consideration. The purpose of such solutions remains to have tremendous advantages during
the implementation of cold chain packaging systems since they are cheap and easier or faster to
use as packaging to acquire. The company and its management should avoid the use of custom-
designed solutions during the implementation processes on the use of cold chain packaging
system. The primary reason why the administration should avert custom-designed solutions is
that in some cases the design can take more than a period of twelve months to design, test, and
validate to help in operations of Guardian Drug Company. Besides, for implementation of the
use of cold chain packaging system to be useful in the activities of Guardian Company, there will
be a need to improve the ratio of product payload to shipping case size. The idea is essential in
helping in reducing the overall costs of transportation of total unit transported or distributed in
different marketplaces or health facilities.
Recommendation

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The management of pharmaceuticals company needs t improve the systems of cold chain
packaging by understanding where it is intended to be used for storage or distribution. It is
necessary to ensure that the company offers barrier protection to the system as the packaging
through cold chain provide a barrier for water, humidity, dust, and other contaminants to
essential drugs used for treating different health complications. The management can help in
implementing the system by focusing on how to achieve customer satisfaction. Such ideas are
attained by maintaining in mind multiple variables that can construct effective process Guardian
Company need to improve the implementation of the cold chain packaging system by use of
barcode label as a way of optimizing all factors that play the prominent function during for
storage or distribution of pharmaceuticals (Molina-Besch and Palsson 2015, p. 49). Additionally,
the idea of enhancing product traceability remains to be one way of critical improving the use of
cold chain packaging system. Traceability can help in integrating inventories, the process of
transportation, and manufacturing while maintaining the overall cost (Dyer 2014, p. 6452).
Therefore, Guardian Drug Company can focus on improving their operations by use of cold
chain packaging system as a way of enhancing their products during to storage or distribution
processes

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