Sophisticated packaging materials now feature convenient formats, easy access, flexible pouches and smaller sizes, and encourage sustainability.

Bakers and snack producers know that keeping their products at the right temperature from production through distribution is key to food safety and freshness.

With flexibility, quick changeover and easy-to-clean features, horizontal packaging systems are in great demand.

Successful copacking involves a number of challenges for bakers and snack producers that copack, but there are many benefits for companies that do it the right way. New market segments and customer relationships top the list.

New capabilities of secondary packaging systems focus on streamlined processes, total automation and increased flexibility.

By their nature, bakeries and snack manufacturers present challenges to logistics software developers, as the perishable aspect of their products and ever-increasing breadth and complexity of their inventory often make facility management difficult. Now, software developers are offering cloud-based computing and related mobility solutions to make demand forecasting and production planning easier.