The Packaging Problem: Impact The impact of packaging systems on the total cost of product is many times the cost of packaging materials. Systems Companies lack the systems to quantify these costs and impacts and the tools to guide the development of optimized solutions. Competency When product manufacturers seek solutions for packaging problems they encounter a fragmented and specialized packaging industry that lacks standards and fails to take the complete product/package problem into account across the supply chain, throughout product life-cycle. Trends Trends in Product manufacturing practices such as outsourcing and globalization are creating more and more complex supply chains and demanding greater visibility to the problem across greater distances. Variables that drive the development of packaging are becoming more and more distant from those responsible for implementing packaging solutions. Solution: GlobalPKG’s technology solutions combined with its exquisite understanding of the complexity of packaging variables in the context of product variables and new product introductions (NPI’s) provide a comprehensive, dynamic and real-time solution to a critical issue for every product manufacturer.