Find the answers to frequently asked questions about the PackControl reusable packaging registration below. Would you like to know more? Feel free to contact us! We'll be happy to help.
Packaging software is also known as packaging registration software. It allows you to accurately record the administrative processes surrounding your empties flows, packaging flows and reusable packaging. PackControl offers a versatile and comprehensive software package that allows you to perform and automate all administrative tasks related to packaging.
We started developing the PackControl software because we believed that empties flows, which are always difficult to manage, could be better controlled. During the development process, we combined the practical experience of logistics sector professionals with the programming expertise of software developers. We automated the entire packaging management process step by step, ensuring that transactions were recorded correctly and that the exchange behaviour of locations was improved. A packaging administration in PackControl ensures accurate balance reconciliation, error-free cost allocation, and a higher turnover rate for packaging.
Automated packaging registration allows you to register packaging faster. PackControl's software covers all processes related to packaging registration and management. It enables you to apply registration, responsibilities, agreements, rules and exceptions automatically, handle claims quickly and have documents signed securely online. You can also send balance statements directly from the software to your counterparties, who will then know exactly how many items they still need to return. This improves swapping behaviour and ensures a higher turnover rate. PackControl also enables you to accurately calculate costs to be settled for rental or deposits and export them to your accounting system. PackControl users report significant time savings and a more efficient use of packaging.
Packaging loss can be a significant expense for many companies. Although you know that items are at various locations, it is easy to lose track of exactly where they are. This can make trip planning and ensuring optimal use difficult.
With accurate packaging registration in PackControl, you can keep track of your reusable packaging items and ensure that you have full control over your reusable packaging. You can see which locations still have items to be collected and keep those locations informed. You also know exactly who is responsible for the balance and any associated costs. This enables you to plan the use of your packaging more effectively. You can calculate the correct costs, plan more efficiently, and increase your packaging's turnover rate.
Packaging rental can be calculated in various ways, based on balance, daily rental, activities such as storage, cleaning, collection and delivery, or volume prices for quantities per period. In addition, there are deposit fees (possibly with waiting days), and applicable price agreements and exceptions.
With the PackControl Rental Module, you can automate all these cost calculations. Based on agreements and rules, you can always calculate the correct amounts at the right time without any further effort. The transparent system ensures that you can see exactly how the calculation was made for each booking. This makes it easy to check whether the rules have been applied correctly.
PackControl prepares rental and deposit journal entries for you, which you can easily export to your accounting system for invoicing.
It is not yet clear exactly what you need to do to comply with the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). However, this will become clearer in the coming period, and PackControl is closely monitoring developments.
What is certain is that companies must be able to demonstrate how much of which type of reusable packaging they use, and how frequently items are used. Sustainability begins with optimising the use of packaging, which is precisely what the PPWR is all about. If you start using PackControl for accurate, efficient registration now, you will be optimally prepared for the reports that will soon be mandatory for the PPWR.
Most software solutions for managing reusable packaging focus on only a small part of the overall process. PackControl is a comprehensive packaging management software solution that covers all processes related to reusable packaging. From transaction processing and cost allocation to automatic application of agreements and waiting days, and secure online signing of contracts and balance statements. It even allows for automatic checking of pooling statements.
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No, PackControl packaging registration software is a so-called SaaS solution based on the latest software techniques. SaaS stands for Software as a Service. The software is securely stored in the cloud, and you always automatically work in the latest version of PackControl. You log in via the PackControl web portal and use the software on our secure servers.
No, getting started with PackControl packaging software is fairly straightforward. You can start right away with manual input. However, to ensure that all agreements, rules and exceptions are applied automatically, you will need to identify how you currently work. This takes some time, but ultimately allows you to continue working according to your own processes, only now they are automated.
Before you start using PackControl, you can test and practise in a “sandbox”, a secure test environment that contains a copy of your actual packaging administration. Nothing can go wrong there. We will also help you set up all the rules, agreements and exceptions and create links with, for example, your accounting software. Once everything is set up correctly, you can manage and adjust everything yourself if necessary.
Although Excel may seem like an affordable solution, it is time-consuming to enter data correctly and keep track of transactions, quantities, locations, values, transport companies and their specific rules and agreements, pooling items, contracts, and so on.
We encounter companies using complex Excel spreadsheets that can only be updated by one person in the organisation. We also see companies losing track during peak season, precisely when it is important to know the exact location of each item so you can control your stock for planning and cost purposes.
With PackControl, you have complete control over all reusable packaging. Automation ensures that rules and agreements are always applied correctly. You can focus on your business instead of searching for packaging items. Because you can immediately inform locations of outstanding packaging balances, their swapping behaviour improves in most cases. You save time and money, and avoid a lot of stress.
Yes, data from most software packages and Excel spreadsheets can be imported into PackControl. The advantage of PackControl is that it offers a comprehensive range of features, including packaging receipt and issuance, transactions, waiting days, balances, deposits and rentals. You can also securely sign contracts, balance statements and other important documents online via the software itself.
At PackControl, our goal is to automate all packaging registration and management activities, bringing them together in one secure, user-friendly software system.
PackControl is fully automated for maximum efficiency. This saves you money and minimises the risk of errors.
All transactions can be imported automatically via API links. You can also automate contract agreements by setting up 'business rules' and automatically match your administration with that of pooling operators. You can also calculate rental and deposit costs accurately and automatically forward the amounts and journal entries to your accounting department for invoicing.
The thing that strikes our new users the most when they start working in PackControl is that they no longer have to compare long lists of packaging items using a yellow marker.
With PackControl, you can easily import all packaging transactions received from counterparties on a daily basis. The software compares these with transactions from your own systems, and you only need to check what is going on where discrepancies are detected. You can send balance statements to your counterparties and submit claims via the Ticketing Module at the touch of a button. You can precisely define who is responsible for each balance, so you always know who to reconcile any differences with.
Of course you can! We would be happy to show you how our software works. It's free and you're under no obligation.
If you decide it's not what you're looking for, that's fine. However, experience shows that most companies introduced to PackControl are pleasantly surprised by the extensive possibilities the software offers.
If you would like us to, we can set up a test administration with your company's data after the demonstration. This will give you a first-hand experience of how much easier your packaging registration becomes with the software.
We would be delighted to show you how it works. An appointment for a demonstration can be arranged quickly.
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Before you can start using PackControl, you must set up all the rules, agreements and exceptions, and create the correct links to automatically import the necessary information. This is why it is not possible to simply take out a PackControl subscription. You can view the products we offer on our Products page.
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