Mark Component as 'Internal Packaging Waste'

Retailers will now have the option to ask their product suppliers to specify when components are ‘internal packaging’ in the Bills of Materials for their products.

This information can be used to flag components within your overall packaging footprint that are discarded internally within your supply chain / transit operations, allowing you to manage your entire packaging footprint in e-halo while differentiating between consumer destined and internal packaging. Examples of this include packaging that is unpacked/repacked and discarded in warehouses or fulfilment centres.

This functionality can be used to ensure internal packaging is correctly flagged and is therefore able to be excluded in your e-halo dashboards for relevant reporting requirements and legislation such as EPR and other packaging tax instruments, where different inclusion and exclusion criteria apply.

If the ‘Internal Packaging Waste’ feature is on for a retailer, when a product supplier is completing a Bill of Materials for that retailers, they will see an ‘internal packaging waste’ column in the secondary and tertiary components of the Bill of Materials:

A component should be marked as ‘internal packaging waste’ when that component is used  for internal transit only. This relates to packaging used to transport products between sites/departments within the internal supply chain e.g. boxes used to ship product from one internal warehouse to another that are discarded as operational waste.

Extra information on the ‘internal packaging waste’ is displayed to the user when they click on the ‘i’ icon of the column:

If you would be interested in collecting the ‘internal packaging waste’ data for your organisation, please contact your Customer Success Manager or our support team on support@sunbranding.com, and they will set this up for you.