Valuations – ACG determines the capability of your company to successfully implement a new comprehensive multi-dimensional packaging strategy in the geographic markets you serve using existing personnel, infrastructure and financial position. Your capability assessment provides us with a base line value to measure the success of improvement efforts.

Financials – Your existing financial statements hold the key to your ability to implement a new or refine your current sales and marketing strategy. ACG will provide clarity on the financial prerequisites to successfully implement a comprehensive traditional packaging strategy or a more refined, higher contribution and globally-sourced multi-dimensional packaging strategy.

Strategies – A new or refined strategy specific to your organization provides a direction for your business and helps prevent losing sight of objectives. ACG can help by determining the processes needed and the resources required to successfully implement a strategy that provides market differentiation, employee alignment and a continuum of contribution that exceeds financial expectations.

Process improvement – A leaner, more efficient utilization of resources means working smarter instead of harder. ACG helps refine strategies to ensure you and your customers realize process improvement and accelerated throughput by measuring and analyzing process data to improve efficiency, increase quality and reduce downtime.

Manufacturing automation – Evaluation of current operations finds ways to reduce labor costs and increase manufacturing efficiencies for your customers. ACG provides access to resources with demonstrable capabilities to provide increased output, greater consistency and reduced costs for processing and packaging lines by using automation which transcends traditional packaging mediums.

Engineering services – ACG provides access to engineering and technical personnel with proven design, development and implementation capabilities that improve throughput processes across the entire packaging spectrum. Using engineering and math models to provide throughput process improvement for your high-profile customers will contribute differentiated value-added deliverables while improving ROI.

End-to-end distribution – From optimized unit of measure purchases in concert with dependable transportation plans to on-time deliveries that delight customers, end-to-end logistics planning means easily being able to respond quickly to any disruptions. ACG helps you positively impact your customers’ profit margin with a solution that maximizes resource utilization, improves delivery times and reduces costs.

Material handling – Integral to the design of most production systems, it is critical that all the equipment and processes – including manual, semi-automated and automated – work together as a unified system. ACG provides your customers access to engineers and system designers who can redesign and upgrade existing systems to improve customer service, reduce inventory, shorten delivery time and lower overall handling costs.

Inventory management – Inventory, whether in component materials or finished products for sale, is synonymous with cash – it’s paid for and it can’t be recouped until it’s sold. That’s why good inventory management as part of a new comprehensive marketing strategy from ACG, can help you deliver world class customer service, positive cash flow and business success to your high-profile and high-potential customers.

Skills assessment – Both technical skills – the ability to accomplish a specific task – and soft skills – the ability to fit in and get along well in the workplace – are critical to developing the perfect workforce. ACG helps you identify and describe the skills you need to allow you to employ personnel who are the right fit for the job.

Training – Advanced training is the best way to improve your business operations using your existing workforce. ACG’s training expands the knowledge base of your employees ensuring improved performance, process consistency and adherence to quality standards resulting in an enhanced company reputation.

Outsourcing – Sometimes it makes good business sense to use another company or a freelancer rather than doing it internally. ACG can help with an outsourced talent base for anything that isn’t strategically important to get the job done without generating some of the overhead costs that come with having employees.

Differentiated substrates – Modern packaging goes beyond traditional paperboard and corrugated to substrates that not only preserve your customers’ products, but also promote their brand and communicate their unique value in an environmentally- and consumer-friendly manner. ACG helps determine the best type of material for packaging products from thermoformed and blister packaging to Form Fill Seal (FFS) and flexible films and pouches.

Material testing & certification - Some packaging materials are full of toxins that are either carcinogenic or affect the reproductive system. It is critical to your business, especially in direct contact food packaging, that the suppliers and the materials they provide, have been tested and certified. ACG provides access to world-class packaging suppliers with the highest level of quality certification.

Market research – Who is the customer? What do they want? Where do they want to get it? What do they want to pay for it? A key deliverable of ACG, determining and understanding target market and demographics is extremely important very early on in the process of creating a successful product.

On point branding – Today’s definition of brand is more than a name, slogan or logo. It is the perception a consumer has when they hear or think of a company name or product. Ultimately, your customers’ brands should motivate consumers to see them as the sole provider of a solution to a need. ACG ensures that the packaging medium chosen to deliver their product to market not only creates, but also reinforces their image.

Point of sale distinction - Packaging and point-of-sale displays are the first things consumers see when they come into contact with your customers’ products. As part of a comprehensive marketing strategy, ACG can help you use them to evoke how special and unique your customers’ products are to their target audiences.

Sales strategy & tactics – A game plan for how to sell products and actions to put that plan into action – they go hand-in-hand in order to convince consumers to buy your customers’ products. ACG will help develop a sales and marketing strategy that aligns best with your sales and marketing team, as well as identified market opportunities.

Sales support – Behind every great sales representative is a sales support team to help them do their job more effectively and efficiently. From creating sales tools and collateral to providing administrative support, ACG can show you how sales support contributes to good customer relationships and enables the field to spend more time selling.

Prospect identification – Using marketing to identify high-potential customers by product type is key to keeping your sales pipeline full. ACG will help you generate a steady flow of prospective high-profile sales opportunities within the geographic markets you serve to build consistent revenue streams and reduce competitive pressure.