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Ukraine-Russia War: Combating The Increase In Raw Material Prices

Businesses everywhere are feeling the effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the form of exorbitant procurement costs. There are several measures that could be taken to offset such costs during the ongoing phase.

How MSMEs Can Dream Big: A Roadmap To ₹1000 Crores Turnover

All businesses aspire to eventually make it to the holy grail of ₹1000 crores in revenue annually. A combination of technology implementation, crafty investment, and risk-taking are key for businesses to have a real shot at this arduous but achievable objective.

4 Financing Options Your Business Can Avail For A Steady Working Capital

Businesses have a multitude of financing options to choose from to stabilize their cash flows and working capital management. Opting for a tech-led financing solution can ensure their long-term survival and growth.

How To Make Supply Chains More Cost-Efficient

MSMEs incur the highest supply chain costs due to an aversion to using technology. Data-driven, digitized supply chain management can significantly reduce the spending of MSMEs.

What MSMEs Can Learn From Amazon About Digital Procurement

Amazon’s path-breaking business strategies, investment choices, and technology adoption have made it the biggest conglomerate of the 21st century. Some of the retail giant’s strategies, especially the ones related to sourcing, can be emulated by MSMEs to make their supply chain operations more efficient.

How Tech-led Supply Chain Financing Bridges The Finance Gap In India’s Agri Industry

MSME agribusinesses find it routinely challenging to secure credit from banks and other financial institutes to sustain their operations. Technology-based solutions can offer avenues to correct this problem.

E-Auctions or RFPs? What MSMEs should choose for Efficient Procurement and Why

E-auctions help businesses control their procurement costs, create long-term vendor partnerships and strategies, and make their logistics operations smoother — things that can be difficult or impossible by going down the RFP route.

Role of Supply Chain Finance in Fueling MSME Growth in India

MSMEs are an important source of growth for India's economic development, yet just 10% of the country's MSMEs have access to institutional financing. Learn how SCF can save the day.

Top 10 Secrets of B2B Procurement Revealed

A detailed explanation of the top 10 essential features you should look for in a B2b procurement software offering Live Bidding. Read to know more.

Supply Chain Finance Hacks To Transform Your Sourcing

Developing a robust supply chain finance plan is vital for streamlining the working capital and cash flow of an organization. Read on to know more.

Why Online Bidding Is The Future Of Smart Sourcing?

Online bidding on B2B platforms add efficiency to your sourcing, bring suppliers online & simplify price discovery. Read on to know how.

Transforming Businesses through Timely Vendor Payments in 2022

It is imperative for everyone to understand in 2022 and beyond that, even the smallest of businesses would require timely working capital influx to keep themselves afloat and profitable. Read on to delve deeper.

How to Make it Easy for Your Vendors to Go Digital?

Digital vendor management is the thing of the future with the dominance of technology rising. To help your vendors adopt technology easily & without hesitation, you need to be a bit strategic. Let us tell you how.

3 Levers to Build a Winning Supply Chain Network

Implement these supply chain strategies to ensure improved productivity, reduced inventory & savings via cash discounts.

Warehouse Sanitation: During Coronavirus & For Later

With the coronavirus pandemic affecting us all in 2020, sanitation becomes even more significant especially in warehouses as anything stored there comes in contact with the world one way or the other. Here are some tips to keep it spick & span.

Struggling With Packaging Stock-Outs? Here's What You Can Do

Without the required packaging, products don’t reach their final destination. In this article, we’ll discuss how packaging stock replenishment can help you in the long run.

Merchandise Packaging: Keep Pace With Fluctuating Trends

Merchandising isn’t new but it has evolved. Brands see fluctuating product demands not just throughout the year but sometimes, from week to week. Here's a way to keep merchandise packaging planning smart and effective.

Becoming Sustainable: Overcome Packaging Inventory Ageing

With so many headlines focusing on how to cut down on packaging waste, let’s talk about how inventory control can help & explore how to cut down packaging inventory ageing.

7 Easy Ways to Reduce Packaging Inventory Replenishment Costs

By cutting down on the inventory replenishment cost, businesses save time and money. In turn, they can prevent packaging stock-out. We have listed down 7 methods to optimize inventory replenishment cost.

Work Smarter: Make Digital Asset Management Part of Your Workflow

Using digital asset management can help you to work smarter & better. Learn more about the topic & increase the efficiency of your workflow.

Artwork Flow Can Help With Changes In Packaging Regulations

Packaging rules & regulations are ever-evolving. Brands need quick processes to comply with any changes & roll out products that are safe.

How to Plan A Successful Product Launch (Holiday Calendar)

Marketing doesn't happen overnight. Plan your product launch marketing with this handy guide. Free 2020 holiday calendar included.

5 Ways To Make Sure You Save Costs On Corrugated Boxes

With their unique blend of cushioning and structural rigidity, corrugated boxes are indispensable when it comes to storage, bundling or shipping. Read more to know how to save costs on corrugated boxes.

3-Step Guide To Begin With The Best Artwork Management System

We're here with a guide on Artwork Flow to get you started with our artwork management system. 3 simple steps & you are closer to efficiency.

5 Common Artwork Management Failures that Delay Product Launch

Supercharge your product launch strategy with Artwork Flow - a powerful system that will help you resolve common artwork management failures.

7 Free Artwork Proofing Tools You Need to Bookmark Today!

Marketers can now work smarter with free online proofing tools. Get results faster & deliver accurate artwork files.

Ditch Emails For A Seamless Artwork Management System

Emails might be making you unproductive. Artwork Flow, a cloud-based artwork management system is here to solve your problems.

Why is the Demand for Recyclable Laminates Increasing?

40% of the plastic produced is packaging, used just once and then discarded. This is why there is a dire need to find alternatives to single-use plastic. One such option is recyclable laminate.

E-commerce Packaging Innovations: Revamping Logistics

E-commerce has transformed business models in the world. This article enlists the noteworthy e-commerce packaging innovations that walk in-line with the new-age dynamic retail industry.

Ace the Shrink Wrap Packaging Game!

Shrink wrap is a versatile packaging option that can be used for bundling, labelling, weatherproofing, tamper-proofing and more. Here's everything you need to know about shrink wraps.

Color Consistency In Packaging - A Game Changer

Packaging is the first thing that comes to a consumer’s notice and through the color he’s able to identify the brand’s product. In this article, we will discuss how a lack of color consistency in packaging hampers the brand identity.

Packaging Design Review: Sugar Alternative Brands

Diabetes and weight-consciousness are the main drivers for the sugar alternatives market. Here's a review of the leading sugar alternatives packaging designs and their effectiveness in the consumer market.

A Handy Guide on Packing Unusually Shaped Products

Packing unusually-shaped products can get tricky. Therefore, pack smart so that the shipping overhead is minimum. Here’s a handy guide for packing unusually shaped products.

Zero Waste Packaging: Eliminating Plastics to Level Zero

The zero-waste philosophy encourages the reuse and recycling of packaging. Here are some of the most commonly used zero-waste packaging solutions.

Fashion Retail Packaging: Moving Out of the Box

Fashion retail brands face quite a lot of packaging challenges. Following are the recent innovative fashion retail packaging, which are wooing the customers.

Game of Thrones Fervour: Packaging Beyond Branding

Let’s have a look at the admirable examples of Game of Thrones themed packaging by well-known brands like Adidas, Mountain Dew, Oreo, Jhonny Walker & Urban Decay.

A Handy Guide to Packaging Glass Products Safely

Packaging brittle and fragile products can be quite challenging. Here are some handy tips on packaging glass products for easier handling while shipping.

Conquering The Consumer Durables Packaging Challenges

Packaging consumer durables for storage, shipping and transport can be quite a challenging task. Here are some of the major consumer durables packaging challenges & solutions.

Create Global Impact with Language Specific Packaging

Majority of tourists face hassle communicating at duty-free stores, local markets, and pharmacies. Hence, language-specific packaging is necessary to eliminate the gap.

Learn from Zomato : The Need of Tamper-Evident Tapes?

After a viral video of Zomato’s delivery boy eating food from customers’ packages and repacking them to deliver, many e-commerce retailers are keen on using tamper-proof packaging. Especially the Food and Beverage industry.

Thermochromic Tape Used in Temperature-Sensitive Packaging

In packaging, if there’s a contender that adds a new dimension to taping, it is a thermochromic tape that is temperature-sensitive & changes colour with temperature changes.

Overcoming Pharmaceutical Packaging Industry Challenges

Complications are run-of-the-mill in the pharmaceutical packaging industry. Here a list of the common challenges of the pharmaceutical packaging industry & the solutions to overcome them.

Celebrating High-Spirited Women at Bizongo: Women's Day

This year we wanted the women at Bizongo to cherish their womanhood. This is how the celebration for International Women’s Day went.

An Extensive Consumer Durables Packaging Guide

Consumer durables are high-value goods. This consumer packaging guide lists all types of consumer durables packaging to protect such products.

Innovations in Packaging Security Features

We today face the challenge to incorporate packaging safety features sustainable with the scale of production. Following are the remarkable innovations in the packaging security features.

Why Does Your Commercial Warehouse Flooring Need a Makeover?

Warehouses floor need to bear massive weights and go through everyday rough handling. Read on to know why your commercial warehouse flooring needs a makeover.

How Safe is the Biodegradable Food Packaging Market?

With sustainability at its core, food packaging is moving swiftly towards biodegradable options. But is the biodegradable food packaging market really safe? Read ahead to know more.

Simple Packaging is Ruling the Market. Read Up to Know Why?

Brands spend hours and weeks and days brainstorming to come up with a packaging that’s simple yet attractive. The present trend favors simple and minimalist packaging. We tell you why.

A Detailed Guide for Ancillary Packaging Materials

The ancillary packaging materials add value to the primary packaging in the automotive industry. Here's a list of types of auto-ancillary packaging materials and their importance for packaging in the automotive industry.

Why Is Chemical Packaging a Mindful Task & How to Best Do It?

When it comes to chemical packaging, the challenges are manifold. Here are some of the main concerns regarding chemical packaging & how to put them to rest.

Save Time & Manpower With Packaging Automation Systems

The benefit of packaging automation is it saves time and accuracy is impeccable. Let’s have a look at noteworthy innovations in the field of packaging automation.

This is How Mood Boards Help In Packaging Design

When you have to convey your style and quality as a designer, it often becomes tricky to describe that in words. This is how mood boards can help.

Why You Need a Good Label Design to Upscale Your Brand Identity?

The role of packaging is to draw attention followed by customer’s curiosity towards your product and finally the purchase. Here are a few reasons why labels might be a big deal than you expected.

Packaging Trends From 2018 That Are Here to Stay

Necessity is the mother of innovation and the year 2018 thoroughly emphasized the need for smart and environment-friendly packaging. Let’s sum up the packaging trends from 2018, which are expected to stay.

The Story Behind Bizongo’s New Avatar

We introduce to you, the brand Bizongo. All our past experiences, our values and our aspirations have led up to this moment. This is the face of our present and our future. It gives expression to everything that Bizongo encapsulates.

What Should You Consider Before Changing Your Office Space?

Let us take you through the things we took into account when Bizongo changed its office space and you could consider too.

Packaging Prototypes Decoded - What You See Is What You Get

Prototyping is an important part of the package designing process and they are created for a wide variety of reasons. Here are different packaging prototypes that are used in the industry to explore new packaging designs.

Picking the Right Packaging Printing Method for Cartons

Since cartons are rigid and flat, you can get a lot of printing options that other flexible packaging materials do not have. Here are some of the common printing technologies that are available for printing cartons.

Plastic Bans Around the Globe That India Can Learn From

Plastic has become a threat to the environment. Let’s have a look at remarkable plastic bans across the world and the factors that drove them.

8 Innovations are Reshaping Automotive Packaging

The automotive industry is a pioneer in designing packaging to optimize space utilization. In this read, we bring to you noteworthy innovations in the automotive packaging industry.

How to Boost Sales through Point of Sale Merchandise

According to your business, you can plan out your point of sale marketing strategy. Read ahead to know a few point of sale merchandising strategies.

Flexible Packaging Testing Methods for Reliable Packaging

To monitor how packaging behaves under different kinds of stress, flexible packaging testing is quite important. Let's discuss some of the flexible packaging testing methodologies

6 Packaging Trends Influencing Decisions at Leading Brands

The packaging industry trends of 2018 clearly depict that manufacturers have recognized packaging as an important branding asset. Let’s have a look at the new market trends influencing the $851 billion packaging industry.

Child-Resistant Pharmaceutical Packaging to Ensure Safety

As per the World Health Organization, child-resistant packaging has provided high success rates when it came to the prevention of unintended poisoning in children.

Dose of Innovative Pharmaceutical Packaging You Surely Need

The pharmaceutical packaging industry is driven by the factor of safety for both- drugs and patients. In this series of packaging innovations, we bring to you the recent trends in the pharmaceutical packaging industry.

Understanding Standard Methods of Testing for Rigid Packaging

Rigid packaging testing is something that needs extra care hence is divided into two sections. Here are some of the testing for rigid packaging methodologies categorized as per the ways of testing.

Choose the Right Blister Packaging for Your Business

Blister packaging, commonly known as unit-dose packaging, is used in the pharmaceutical industry for packaging medicine. Here's everything you need to know about blister packaging.

Innovative Chocolate Packaging Concepts You Must Check Out

With the increasing popularity of chocolates for personal taste and gifting, companies are especially conscious of their packaging. In the August series of Packaging Innovations 2018, here we bring the innovative chocolate packaging appealing to every taste bud.

Role of Packaging Through Key Stages of a Consumer’s Journey

Packaging imposes an impression on consumer’s likelihood to purchase the same product again. Here's how packaging impact in 3 consumer journey stages - before, during & after buying.

Optimize Packaging Cost to Improve Your Company's Bottom Line

Organizations whose main business is not packaging tend to sideline it, causing unnecessary increment of packaging cost and brand name deterioration. So, here are a few tips to curate a smart and cost-effective packaging procurement strategy?

Innovations in the Packaging Industry | July 2018

Millions of tons of packaging waste contribute to landfill every year. Thus arises the need for biodegradable packaging. Let's have a look at some remarkable environment-friendly packaging innovation.

9 Prerequisites to Packaging Design & Development

Packaging can get tricky. Given is the list of 9 things you should be aware of before you kickstart packaging design & developemnt.

9 Reasons Your Business Needs Frustration Free Packaging

Frustration-free packaging is beneficial for both, the consumers and the manufacturers. We've listed 9 reasons you should opt for frustration-free packaging too.

Innovations In The Packaging Industry | June 2018

With the aim of reducing this landfill, many manufacturers are switching to plant-based and recyclable raw materials for packing their products. In this series of packaging innovations, we bring you some of the recyclable food packaging worth notice.

Update: Plastic Ban In Maharashtra & Alternatives Available

The Maharashtra government, on 28th June, revised the ban on the initial ban issued on 23rd March. The following article has all the details mentioned related to the ban along with the alternatives present on the Bizongo platform.

5 Guaranteed Benefits of Localised Procurement for Every Business

Localising the packaging simply means sourcing packaging materials from vendors that are closest to a client’s location. Here, we have highlighted the complete benefits of how localizing packaging supply can be beneficial.

7 Reasons Your Business Needs a Packaging Procurement Software

Move over the manual procurement process. Packaging procurement software is here to stay. Here are 7 reasons why your business needs it too.

[Case Study] India's 1st Biodegradable Spill Proof Meal Tray

Winner of the 2018 Dieline Awards, this project was focused on putting together an eco-friendly food packaging solution

Innovations In The Packaging Industry | May 2018

Organizations are attempting to create packaging solutions, which not only appeals to the customers but also reduces their carbon footprint associated with recycling. In this series of packaging innovation, we bring to you packaging that is worth preserving.

5 Techniques to Boost Brand Recall with Customized Packaging

Developing customized packaging gives businesses the advantages that are tied to functional as well as aesthetic aspects of the packaging. Here’s a look at some of the merits of using customized packaging for your business.

Innovations In The Packaging Industry | April 2018

In this series of packaging innovations, we bring to you the techniques that reduce packaging material and still win it. Using less material for packaging will reduce every effort- logistics, inventory, recycling & disposing.

Innovations In The Packaging Industry | March 2018

The world today has realized how outer packaging can appeal to consumers. Especially when the consumers are kids, packaging should be friendly as well as match their interests.

Everything about Gummed Paper Tape

Gummed paper tape is the preferred choice for shipping a large number of boxes. It is an eco-friendly option that allows customization and provides a higher degree of tamper-proofing than regular plastic packing tapes.

Is Your Business Choosing The Right Type of Corrugated Boxes?

Corrugated boxes come in many different styles, each with its own pros and cons, as well as different pricing and assembly time. Here's everything you need to know to make the correct choice.

Introducing New Types Of Mailers for Protective Packaging

Generally, mailers are of two types - kraft paper mailers and poly mailers. Here's a small rundown on the different types of mailers and how to choose the one best suited for your business.

Innovations In The Packaging Industry | February 2018

Packaging trends and innovations go hand in hand. In this series of Packaging Innovations, we bring to you packaging that ensures product safety and is consumer-centric.

Innovations in Packaging Industry | January, 2018

In this series of Packaging Innovations, we bring to you the foremost front-end technologies in the packaging industry that are not only enhancing the appeal of the outer packaging but are also shelf sustainable for a longer time.

Understand The Concept of Tooling

Tooling refers to the printing plates and the cutting dies used to produce a box. Read up to know in detail about the process.

How is a Sample different from a Prototype?

Both samples and prototypes are the physical representation of the aspects of your packaging design. Depending on your timeline and budget, you can choose either. Let’s have a look at the difference between samples and prototypes.

[COLLECTION] The Top 24 Packaging Innovations from 2017

Here's a sneak peek at the beautiful collection of Packaging Innovations from the year 2017. This year, we witnessed some of the biggest revolutionary inventions in the packaging industry.

How To Save Money By Choosing The Correct Box Size

Shipping costs can have a great impact on the revenue from your business. Here are a few tips on how you can tweak your shipping habits to make the most out of your business.

10 Packaging Materials That Are Recyclable (Don't Discard)

Sustainability in packaging is a prime necessity these days. It reduces wastes & encourages and enables consumers to recycle. Here is a list of go-to packaging materials that are recyclable.

Bizongo #Breakthrough: Pizza Parties of 2017!

Here's how the community, culture, innovation, and pizzas defined 2017 for Bizongo.

How to Make Freight Shipping A Stress-free Process

Freight shipping process is slightly more complicated than the shipping of regular parcels. Here are a few tips to make freight shipping simpler.

Decoding the Pantone System for Packaging Design

Pantone is globally preferred in the printing industry. Decode the Pantone system for better packaging design communications.

Why Did FedEx & UPS Discard Shipping Charges Based on Weight?

Until 2015, even companies like UPS and FedEx charged for shipping based on the weight. Until recently, they discarded the system. Here's why.

Innovations In Packaging Industry | November 2017

This November, in our packaging innovation series, we bring to you creative and unique packaging solutions that encourage consumers to either reuse or opt-for environment-friendly packaging.

How to Read a Box Maker’s Certificate in Under 3 Minutes

A Box Maker’s Certificate is a stamp that’s printed on the box to tell you or a freight carrier that the box meets certain requirements. Learn how to read it effectively.

Body Wash Packaging Design: Gelling-In Right Or Standing Out?

Packaging Review: From soap bricks to a more hygienic and convenient option of body washes, the Body Care industry is seeing a steady evolvement. Bizongo reviews the packaging of big body wash brands like Pears, Nivea, Palmolive & Lifebuoy.

Packaging Prepress 101- Dielines and Proofs

Packaging prepress involves dielines and proofs, i.e. preparing the digital copy of the box. It is only after the prepress process, the actual manufacturing can begin. Know the basics of prepress.

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