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MarketEmpfohlen

Announced Is Not Recognised: Board Prices and Your Open Quotes

Every converter knows containerboard is rising. Far fewer can say which of their outstanding quotes are priced on a board cost that has already gone.

Dominik Danninger · 7. September 2026 · 7 Min. Lesezeit

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You Were Cut Before Price: The RFQ Gate Nobody Shows You

A packaging RFQ can be lost before any price is compared, in a qualification step nobody shows you. Here are the four gates, and how to clear them early.

21. August 2026 · 7 Min. Lesezeit

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Buyer's Guide

Why Every Packaging CPQ Result Is Software That Has Never Priced a Box

Search packaging CPQ and no packaging vendor appears. The reason is structural: CPQ prices a combination of options, a box price is a manufacturing route.

20. August 2026 · 6 Min. Lesezeit

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Market

Digital Transformation in Packaging Dies in the Pilot

Digital transformation in packaging rarely fails on technology. It fails between a working pilot and the second team using it.

16. August 2026 · 9 Min. Lesezeit

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Market

The €500 Million Version of a Mistake Packaging Makes Quietly

A grocery ERP programme died on one modelling mismatch. Converters face the same fork, with sheet yield instead of stock valuation.

16. August 2026 · 6 Min. Lesezeit

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Buyer's Guide

Do You Need a Packaging ERP, or Just a Faster Quote Desk?

Most converters shopping for a packaging ERP have a quoting problem, not a production-control problem. How to tell which one you actually have.

9. August 2026 · 6 Min. Lesezeit

An RFQ arriving in five inboxes at once, with one converter answering first

Trends

Whoever Quotes First Wins: Why RFQ Response Speed Is the New Edge

Most B2B replies take about 42 hours. In packaging the slowest part is not the press. It is the quote, and the first credible number usually takes the job.

9. Juni 2026 · 6 Min. Lesezeit

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Trends

What a 68% Supplier-Agreement Rate Means for Packaging Converters

Procurement agents hit a 68% supplier-agreement rate at Walmart. What agent-mediated buying at scale means for the converter on the other end.

28. Mai 2026 · 4 Min. Lesezeit

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Trends

Why Packaging Is the Last $1.2 Trillion Industry Without an Operating System

Packaging produces $1.2 trillion a year and still runs on email, PDFs, and spreadsheets. Why no platform has claimed the category, and why that is changing.

28. Mai 2026 · 5 Min. Lesezeit

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