Intelligent Reusable Containers for the Semiconductor and Display Industry
How Merck Performance Materials GmbH (Merck Electronics) is transforming its container handling with Packwise Smart Cap, optimizing manual processes, and uncovering untapped potential along the supply chain.
Merck Performance Materials at Wiesbaden site
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Over 350 Years
in the Market
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Focus on the Electronics Industry
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130 Employees
Three Pillars: Healthcare,
Life Science, Electronics
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Collaboration with
Packwise since Mid-2023
Die biggest Challenges
- 1High Purity Requirements
- 2Increasing costs and high effort
- 3Limited access to stock levels and fill levels of containers
- 4Strained storage capacities and high storage costs
- 5Desire for more transparency
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What Merck Performance Materials GmbH says
“We chose the Packwise Smart Cap because it offers the essential
parameters for us: location and fill level transmission. This enables us
to provide our customers with a ‚vendor managed inventory‘ service
using shuttle fleets.“
The initial situation
At its Wiesbaden plant, Merck manufactures various products for use in complex lithography processes. Strict requirements for purity must be met, and environmental impacts on the products must be considered. To meet these requirements and quality standards, Merck uses double-walled IBCs made of ultra-pure plastic. For some products, in addition to ensuring that containers are undamaged and clean, a comprehensive temperature documentation is also necessary.
For Merck, it is crucial that the products reach the customers efficiently and according to demand. However, it is often challenging to have a clear overview of the current inventory of containers at the customer’s site. Before collaborating with Packwise, the planning of production, deliveries, and collections was based on historical data and assumptions.
The result
By collecting valuable and comprehensive data, as well as mapping and evaluating it, Merck Performance is now able to track the stock levels, usage, and locations of its containers. This has revealed significant optimization potentials. The resulting transparent processes enable more efficient use and management in cycles, offering an opportunity to improve sustainability goals, efficiency, and safety.
The main benefits of implementing the Packwise solution are improved planning and logistics processes, a reduction in working capital, and more resilient supply chains through enhanced delivery capabilities and transparent delivery management.
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