A background in Marketing and languages combined with 20 years print and packaging knowledge has been an ideal platform for understanding our key clients business, technical and often cultural challenges.
Extensive exposure to the ever changing Brand Owner environment has instilled a 360 degree approach to consulting, drawing on first hand experience.
A highly experienced packaging professional with a process-oriented background that spans 13yrs
Explores strategy with fresh eyes, uncovers new and unexpected sources of inspiration and brings mix of bold imagination and disciplined pragmatism.
Results elevate consulting activities to a core business discipline, integral to culture and foundational long-term success. 
Our Team of Specialists Include: Innovation Consultant · Solution Consultant · Print Consultant · Workflow Consultant Print Production Manager · Colour Specialist · Design Consultant 
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The Paclogic team provides a consulting service aimed at helping our clients achieve a more reliable and more effective delivery of branded packaging. We do this by providing workflow analysis, spreading best practice and providing solutions that streamline their processes.
Packaging expertise | Logical approach
about us
how did we get here?
Our approach is collaborative. Combining your business knowledge with our process knowledge and technical skills will help you improve your business in targeted and specific areas that will achieve results – measurably.
Paclogic benefits from 30 years FMCG packaging graphics experience and research from a team of specialist consultants.
We utilise a variety of models and methodologies to ensure that every individual project approach is relevant. There is no one size fits all solution where packaging graphics are concerned. Each solution is tailored to your specific needs within the following framework:
On this basis, our team of people offer a wide ranging skill set. They are ultra technical, purely process driven and great implementers. It takes a team with all the right skills and strengths directed as one resource, lead by your Principal Consultant, to see a truly successful project to completion.
We are keen to introduce you to our clients who recommend us and support the projects we have handled.
Contact us today to talk through the challenges you are facing and we will openly discuss the areas where we can support you to move forward without obligation. You have everything to gain. >> contact us today
Imagelinx has launched the Paclogic entity to respond to the Brand Owners need for a management consultation service which delivers packaging graphics management solutions and workflows.
The Paclogic business was launched by Imagelinx plc in 2011. As a leader in packaging graphics management for over 3 decades, Imagelinx has always taken a holistic approach to client needs: providing services, production support and software solutions to global brand and manufacturing clients successfully.
In response to the packaging graphics supply chains need for a management consultation service, Paclogic was born.
Within this increasingly complex packaging landscape, clients turn to specialists with the experience to cut through the noise and distraction of the graphics supply chain. Our problem solving approach to life, aligning ourselves with your objectives, provides the right service at the right time.
We have the tools entwined with first class global benchmarking experience within the print and packaging workflow sector to help grow your business.
services
Paclogic services touch on all aspects of the packaging graphics supply chain whether you are a brand owner or packaging manufacturer.
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Auditing
The successful delivery of branded packaging requires an individual work stream and process. However, it is often combined with and crosses over into other business unit functions, masking the detail and attention that it requires.
The Paclogic approach is to start with a diagnostic of your current workflow. With the information gathered at this stage, we understand your business model on a logical level and the constraints which will influence your future approach.
The audit provides you with a clear, concisely documented summary of the opportunities for growth and positive change. You have the helicopter view within your business, putting you in the driving seat.
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Mapping
We use a range of analytical tools to highlight the gaps and the duplications in your workflows. Having audited the business, mapping and visualizing the processes has the benefit of highlighting exactly where the improvements can be made. Overlaying this with the latest available workflow technologies further multiplies the benefits to be gained.
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Product & System Recommendation
Our innovation team are constantly reviewing the latest products, techniques and systems on the market. They can provide you with a range of options to recommend which would be the best fit for your business before you potentially tie yourself into a long term purchase.
>>To learn about product recomendation, more contact us today
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Reporting Key Performance Indicators
KPI’s are more than just a measure and benchmark. They are the strategic underpinning to drive your business improvement. Effective creation and implementation of KPI’s make all the difference to the success of your long term goals.
How you capture these measures and find ways to continuously improve your performance is the cornerstone to progression. Paclogic provides a framework for the measurement and reporting on the right indicators for your business.
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Training
Our objective is to embed good practice within your business. We therefore offer tailored training to bring your team up to speed with the technical skills, software programs and process knowledge which will develop the teams skill set and reduce your dependence on external resources in the future. You become the expert in your business…
Paclogic training includes one to one day sessions on graphics software usage, colour management, group workshops for print training or specific problem solving consultations.
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Procurement Specification
Preparing an RFP (request for pricing) is a skill in itself….The decision to outsource or not to outsource the management of packaging graphics is more than a simple question of reducing cost. In many instances, the business itself is not able to outsource due to a lack of clarity around the packaging work stream and who has ownership.
Paclogic has experience of working with both in-house and external procurement partners to build the right specification to move an RFI (Request For Information) or RFP process forward to ensure that the final specification delivers the right supplier for you.
>>To learn more about procurment specification, contact us today
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Project management
For short term or intermediate support, Paclogic can provide an additional resource to help you implement specific packaging related projects. We help by providing seasoned professionals who have the experience and confidence to deal with more complex packaging based challenges.
Particularly during a change management phase or on boarding new print suppliers, more resource is required for implementation to ensure a successful outcome. And a resource that can add value at the same time, is priceless.
This can also take place in conjunction with an in-depth auditing exercise. Migration of packaging from one print process to another, less costly process, is one of the main ways we make an immediate impact.
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Content management
Packaging content forms the basis of your brands equity. Whether it is brand imagery, logos, artwork or marketing, corporate and regulatory copy, we understand the intricacies of its structure and have successfully provided solutions to take control.
We can help you to create a content strategy which means prioritizing and identifying the best tool set for you content management needs. Or we can establish the control processes for ensuring valuable content is stored, managed and re-used effectively.
A Paclogic solution will improve artwork consistency and quality, minimize artwork revisions and make mass changes easy.
>>To learn more about Content Management please contact us today.
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Qualification of suppliers and printing presses
There is much more to appointing a new print supplier than comparing costs and materials. The quality to which the end product can be reliably and consistently reproduced is the sum of many parts relating to international print standards and benchmarks within the industry. This quality level can be measured and monitored accurately to produce a benchmark report.
Through decades of working with print suppliers, our consultants are able to rate suppliers against international standards and are able to judge whether suppliers have the capabilities to provide the level of quality that your brand demands every day.
We can ensure that you have thoroughly vetted your suppliers and that you are working with the most appropriate vendors for your packaging requirements. We already hold a comprehensive database of global suppliers that have been pre-qualified should you be looking for a new roster of vendors.
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Colour management
Paclogic will work with your team and your supply base to review the effectiveness of your current colour management approach. We will highlight weak areas for immediate attention whilst proposing a longer term solution to improve the brands impact on shelf. The solution may be implemented in-house or an option for outsourcing can be devised.
If your product portfolio is too extensive and the project too time consuming to take on board, we will find a solution that suits your workload and budget. A comparison of print samples at a print technical level is required to arrive at the right conclusion and this skill may not be available within your team. We can provide the tools and training to bring your team up to speed to manage this process on-going.
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Sustainability Review
Sustainability and environmental considerations are at the top of the packaging industry’s agenda. Paclogic reviews your packaging portfolio and offers insights into how you can reduce your impact on the environment. Incorporating automation and digital workflow innovations is a low cost, quick and easy way to minimize your carbon footprint particularly when reducing air travel.
case studies
We have proven success stories to share with you. Please contact us for more specific details on how we can replicate these achievements within your company.
Premium Goods Company
Global Paints and Chemical Company
European Food Producer
Problem: the packaging department was coming under pressure from other areas of the business due to delays in product launch and a lack of capacity to take on new projects.
Objective: identify the true blockers to product launch within the business. Create a workflow process to deal with the blockers, allocate ownership and free up capacity.
Services provided: consulting, audit, process mapping and system recommendation.
Outcome: Profile and awareness raised of the packaging workflow importance within the business as a whole. Measures put into place to track real performance as opposed to anecdotal information. Dual path system implemented to allow both internal and external production of artwork tracking on one central database.
Lead times reduced by 30% and capacity increased by 100%.
Problem: multiple workflows and processes across the markets were causing confusion and a lack of clarity for a business trying to centralise its core functions.
Objective: obtain an objective view of the current status quo in order to bring the markets together under one umbrella.
Services provided: In-depth audit of each market. Process mapping. Specification of a procurement tender document in order to find a single source supplier.
Outcome: the audit provided the clarity and depth of information required to move the process forward to an RFP (Request For Pricing) which resulted in the allocation of a single source supplier at the lowest commodity cost available in relation to client requirement.
Overall spend on packaging graphics reduced by 40%.
Issue: Print run lengths on products were becoming shorter in response to the need for more promotional packaging and a quick response to new product development. Numbers of individual SKU’s were increasing and the average cost of packaging increasing accordingly.
Objective: reduce the cost of the packaging without compromising on quality allowing for quick response to market needs.
Services provided: Project management to migrate the majority of packaging from gravure process to flexo process. Qualification, trialling and fingerprinting of potential printers followed by recommendation.
Outcome: Cost saving of up to 15% per year on print materials.
£250k saving on print tooling.
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the team
At Paclogic, the team are a qualified group of consultants with an industry background to provide the benefit of real life experience in the packaging industry.
Andrea Beyer
Process Consultant
Stéphane Auger
Sales Director, France
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