CVP Impack Wins SDCE Top 100 Supply Chain Project Award

Sparck Technologies was awarded the 2020 SDCE 100 Award for its project with Rue Gilt Groupe (RGG), an US e-commerce retailer. After tremendous growth due to an acquisition of “Rue La La” and ” Gilt “, RGG turned to Sparck Technologies’s CVP Impack Automated Packaging Solution in order to streamline the fulfillment process while reducing costs on transportation and labour. The CVP Impack provided RGG the opportunity to consolidate multiple brands into one packing process while still dynamically providing unique packaging for each brand in one seamless process. The auto-packing technology allowed for a reduction in procurement related to the multiple box sizes used. It also reduced the amount of labour required for carton erection as the CVP Impack only requires one operator for packing, sealing, weighing, labeling and sortation. In addition, by creating a fit-to-size box and removing the excess air, the CVP Impack improved RGG’s customers’ unboxing experience and eliminated the need for void fill material. This also reduced the volume for each order, greatly reducing transportation costs. As a result of the CVP Impack, RGG is averaging a 25-cent savings on each parcel and throughput has increased over 50 percent.

“By the nature of explosive growth associated with the formation of RGG in July 2018, the company added the CVP Impack to its arsenal of customer enhancing and cost saving tools,” said Wells Brummer, vice president transportation and supply chain at Rue Gilt Groupe. “RGG required a solution that supported branding for multiple ecommerce websites, increased throughput and drove cost efficiencies in transportation, labour and supplies. We found that with the CVP Impack. With this auto-packing technology, we expect savings to be more than a half-million dollars in its first full year of operation. The icing on the cake has been nothing but positive NPS scores from our customers receiving their order in a box made by the CVP Impack.”