Project Management is a vital skill for a senior packaging technologist or development manager. This page outlines my approach and gives some examples of the skills I've acquired to fulfill this role.

Typically a project will have five phases:

• Ideas phase - Ideas for new or improved packaging
• Feasibility phase - Costs, mock-ups, supplier briefs, laboratory and small scale line trials
• Capability phase - Refining costs, production and distribution trials, trade informed, technical drawings and artwork
• Launch phase - Finalising costs, production and distribution trials
• Post-Launch review - anything learned to apply to the next project

Gantt charts listing tasks, milestones and resources (See example project plan below)

Stakeholder Analysis

• Identify all those with an interest in the project, this group would typically include:
• • Technical (packaging development, product development and project engineering)
  • Packaging supplier (sales, technical, planning, production and artwork)
  • Production (line operators, factory engineers, planners)
  • Marketing and Sales (including contact with customers and design agencies)

Risk Analysis:

• Follow the supply chain from packaging raw materials to the consumer identifying possible risks, their likelihood and impact
• Rate the risks and focus on those with a high likelihood and high impact (See example below)

  

  

Commercial viability:

• Packaging components and machinery costs
• Packaging line efficiency costs

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