Packaging 101
This material is used to manufacture Consumer Packaging, while containerboard is primarily used to manufacture corrugated containers
What is paperboard?
Cosmetics and personal-care products fit into this Consumer Packaging market category
What is Hair, Beauty, and Health (HBH)?
This common packaging material is made from renewable fiber
What is paper/ paperboard?
These letters stand for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
What is EBITDA?
Turning raw business data into dashboards and insights falls into this IT capability
What is Data & Analytics or Business Intelligence?
A carton of cereal is a familiar example of this type of paperboard packaging
What is a folding carton?
This sturdy packaging format is often associated with premium products and gift packaging?
Paper-based packaging can help brands reduce their reliance on this commonly used material
What is plastic?
This ERP system is being implemented in NA, EMEA, APAC, and Mexico
What is Radius
Accurate customer, product, and material information are examples of this foundational type of enterprise data
What is master data?
This term describes turning paperboard into a finished package such as a folding carton
What is converting?
A cylindrical paper-based package is known by this name
What is tube packaging?
Returning recovered fiber back into production is an example of this process
What is recycling?
Smurfit Westrock's Consumer IT priorities identify reducing this burden in older environments as part of building secure, stable, resilient foundational capabilities.
What is technical debt?
When two systems automatically exchange information, they are connected through this IT concept
What is systems integrations or an interface?
Beyond holding a product, name a way packaging can create value
What are any of product protection, branding, shelf appeal, consumer experience, transportation efficiency, or sustainability?
Aside from HBH products, name a type of consumer product where packaging can influence a shopper's purchasing decision
What are food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, electronics, or spirits?
Designing packaging so its materials can remain in use rather than becoming waste supports this economic model
What is circular economy?
These three letters describe the electronic exchange of standardized business documents, with onboarding being targeted for automation using AI and webMethods.
What is EDI?
A plant wants to monitor production equipment, downtime, and output digitally. This category of technology connects IT with manufacturing operations
What is Operational Technology (OT) or manufacturing technology?
This process uses cutting, creasing, folding, and gluing to transform printed paperboard into a finished carton
What is carton converting?
You're launching a premium product. Name a factor you would consider when designing its packaging?
What are and of product protection, material selection, structural design, branding, sustainability, consumer experience, manufacturing feasibility, transportation, or cost?
Name three ways packaging design decisions can potentially improve sustainability
What are any of reducing material use, improving recyclability, increasing renewable or recycled content, reducing package weight, replacing harder-to-recycle materials, or improving transportation efficiency?
Along with ERP and logistics, Consumer IT priorities identify these three letters as a core type of system supporting manufacturing operations.
What is MES (Manufacturing Execution System)?
Name two IT capabilities that could support the journey from customer order through manufacturing and delivery
What are ERP, manufacturing/MES systems, data & analytics, systems integration, infrastructure/networking, cybersecurity, supply-chain applications, cloud platforms, customer-facing systems, or master-data management?