Business case
What Is Empty Space Actually Costing You?
A 20-minute calculation from your rate card and a sample of orders, with a worked example — and the three corrections to apply before you show anyone ...
Packing Optimizer Blog.
Notes on packing algorithms, packaging regulation and getting optimization into production.
Product strategy
Should Your TMS or OMS Embed Packing Optimization?
A build-or-buy guide for logistics software teams: the signals that say you need it, why it is harder than it demos, and the case for not doing it yet ...
Algorithms
Cylinder Packing: Why Your Software Ships Air
A cylinder fills only 78.5% of its own bounding box, so a cuboid solver over-books volume on every roll, drum and reel — and the error never cancels out ...
Integration
3D Bin Packing over MCP
Packing projects die in the integration backlog, not in the algorithm. We put the engine behind a Model Context Protocol server so planners get answers today ...
Regulation
PPWR and the 50% Empty Space Rule
The cap is 50%, not 40%, and it bites in 2030, not now. But the box assortment change it forces has a lead time measured in years ...
Industry
How Amazon and DHL Cut Packaging Waste
DHL found 24% of the average container is empty space. Amazon saves 60,000 tons of cardboard a year. What both did, and what it means for everyone else ...