Comprehensive Packaging Audits (SME & FMCG),
Optimise Costs & Sustainability
Imagine uncovering substantial cost savings, boosting your brand's green credentials, and ensuring complete regulatory peace of mind – all through optimising your packaging. A comprehensive audit provides the data-driven insights needed to unlock these benefits for your AU/NZ business.
At Circular Blueprint, we conduct meticulous, data-driven packaging audits designed to provide a clear, actionable roadmap for your business. We dive deep into your current packaging systems – analyzing materials, design, supply chain processes, costs, and environmental impact – to uncover hidden inefficiencies, identify compliance gaps, and reveal opportunities for significant improvement.
A typical in-person audit presentation meeting with the client
Tailored Audits for Your Business Scale
Recognising that the needs, complexity, and scale of businesses vary, we offer two distinct Packaging Audit packages designed specifically for the Australian and New Zealand market:
SME Packaging Audit
Focus: A comprehensive yet focused audit designed for the specific needs and scale of Small to Medium Enterprises. Ideal for businesses looking for practical improvements in cost, sustainability, and compliance without the complexity of large-scale FMCG operations.
Scope Typically Includes: Review of key product lines/SKUs, core material analysis, waste reduction opportunities, compliance check against primary AU/NZ regulations (incl. APCO readiness), identification of immediate cost-saving levers.
Investment: 4,400 AUD (One-off, includes GST)
Best For: SMEs seeking actionable insights and tangible improvements tailored to their operational size.
FMCG Packaging Audit
- Focus: An in-depth, expansive audit designed for the complexities of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods companies with larger product portfolios, intricate supply chains, and often more demanding sustainability/compliance requirements.
- Scope Typically Includes: Extensive review across multiple product categories/SKUs, deep dive into supply chain logistics & costs, detailed material lifecycle considerations, rigorous compliance assessment (global & AU/NZ), and strategic optimisation roadmap.
- Investment: 8,800 AUD (One-off, includes GST)
- Best For: FMCG companies needing a strategic, comprehensive analysis to drive significant optimisation across complex packaging systems.
Our Structured Audit Process
We follow a clear, collaborative process to ensure thorough analysis and actionable outcomes:
- Step 1: Discovery Session (Free)
We start with a complimentary 30-minute discovery call to understand your specific business context, challenges, goals, and determine which audit package (SME or FMCG) is the right fit.
- Step 2: Data Collection
Following confirmation and payment, we provide clear instructions and templates (where applicable) for gathering the necessary data about your current packaging specifications, suppliers, costs, processes, and volumes.
- Step 3: In-Depth Analysis
Our experts meticulously analyse the data provided, assessing your packaging against key metrics for cost, performance, sustainability, circularity, and compliance with relevant AU/NZ regulations (including APCO). This phase includes reviewing materials, designs, end-of-life considerations, and identifying potential environmental hotspots (including Carbon Footprint/LCA perspectives).
- Step 4: Reporting & Recommendations
We compile our findings into a comprehensive report detailing current performance, identified risks, and specific, prioritised opportunities for improvement. This includes actionable recommendations for cost savings, material changes, sustainability enhancements, and compliance assurance.
- Step 5: Presentation & Handover
We deliver the findings and recommendations via a clear online presentation, allowing for discussion and Q&A with your team. You receive the full report, providing a tangible roadmap for implementation.
What Our Packaging Audits Uncover
Our audits provide critical insights across key areas:
- Cost Reduction: Identifying opportunities to reduce material usage (lightweighting), optimise purchasing, minimise waste, and lower logistics expenses.
- Sustainability Enhancement: Assessing material choices for recyclability/compostability (in AU/NZ context), evaluating recycled content potential, identifying circular economy opportunities, and providing insights into environmental impact (incl. LCA/Carbon Footprint factors).
- Regulatory Compliance: Verifying alignment with current Australian and New Zealand packaging laws, labelling requirements, and EPR schemes like APCO, mitigating risks of penalties.
- Material Optimisation: Evaluating if current materials are fit-for-purpose, exploring viable alternatives (performance, cost, sustainability), and assessing supplier options.
- Process Efficiency: Reviewing packaging line operations, supply chain logistics, and end-of-life management for potential improvements.
- Product Protection: Ensuring packaging adequately protects products during transit and storage, minimising damage costs.
Benefits: Reduced Costs, Improved Sustainability Metrics, Ensured Compliance, Enhanced Brand Reputation, Data-Driven Decision Making.
What You Receive
Upon completion of your SME or FMCG Packaging Audit, you will receive:
- Reduce escalating packaging costs.
- Meet ambitious sustainability targets (e.g., APCO National Packaging Targets).
- Ensure full compliance with complex packaging regulations.
- Improve the environmental footprint of their packaging (potentially including Carbon Footprint/LCA).
- Make data-driven decisions about material selection and packaging design.
- Optimise packaging for efficiency and product protection.
- Gain a clear, strategic roadmap for packaging improvement.
Tailored for both SMEs seeking practical wins and FMCGs needing deep strategic insights.
Audit Investment
SME Packaging Audit
4,400 AUD (One-off, includes GST)
FMCG Packaging Audit
8,800 AUD (One-off, includes GST)
Ready to Uncover Your Packaging Opportunities?
Gain the insights you need to make impactful changes. Start with a complimentary discovery session to discuss your specific needs and determine the best audit approach for your business.
Packaging Audit FAQs
- The FMCG audit involves a significantly broader and deeper scope, analysing more SKUs, delving further into supply chain complexity, incorporating more detailed LCA/Carbon Footprint perspectives, and providing a more strategic roadmap suitable for larger operations. The SME audit is focused on delivering high-impact, practical insights relevant to smaller-scale operations.
- Following the discovery call and payment, the timeline largely depends on how quickly you can provide the required data. Once we receive complete data, our analysis and reporting typically take 2-4 weeks for SME, 4-6 weeks for FMCG. We'll provide a clearer estimate during the discovery call.
- We typically require details on your key SKUs, current packaging specifications (materials, weights, dimensions), supplier information, material/packaging costs, logistics overview, and any existing environmental data. We provide detailed guidance and templates after engagement.
- Our standard audits are primarily data-driven analyses based on the information provided. Physical material testing or transit testing are typically outside the standard scope but can be discussed as potential add-ons if required.
- Yes, the initial 30-minute discovery call is completely free and carries no obligation. It's designed for us to understand your needs and for you to determine if our audit services are the right fit.
Our Commitment
Helping Australian & NZ businesses achieve sustainable packaging goals, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimise costs for measurable results.
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