The main means for some packaging and printing companies to control costs is to purchase low-cost consumables and use cheap workers. However, they have lost the most critical quality and efficiency in the life of the enterprise, resulting in poor earnings or slow development of the enterprise. In fact, this is the result of typical corporate decision makers focusing too much on explicit costs and ignoring the hidden costs.

At present, there are many packaging and printing enterprises in our country, which pay more attention to cost control, but they often only pay attention to the explicit cost and ignore the hidden cost, so it is difficult to excel in this field and make real high profits.

Low procurement prices and the use of cheap labor, the cost down? Naive imagine, packaging and printing enterprises, time is efficiency, time is benefit. The low-cost consumables are usually packaging and printing suitability or products that do not match the production technology, which will inevitably lead to more time in the production process to deal with the problems brought about by these poor suitability products. The actual explicit cost is low, but the hidden cost (the cost of losing time efficiency) has increased significantly. Moreover, the proportion of consumables in packaging and printing processing is negligible compared to the benefits of time efficiency, so this way of reducing costs can be said to be more than worth the loss.

Consumption is only one of the hidden costs, other losses such as service life, energy consumption, quality and other derived costs, etc., plus the resulting intangible losses, corporate reputation, employee self-confidence and so on. How all these look at the actual cost can not be reflected.

It is very important to choose the right materials for enterprise equipment and personnel habits.

Therefore, when packaging and printing companies choose various packaging and printing materials, they should not blindly seek low prices and ignore its additional costs. More attention should be paid to the hidden costs, should choose the most suitable for the design and performance of the enterprise's own equipment, and the most suitable for the technical personnel operating habits of the material, so that the equipment and personnel in the most coordinated, the most smooth way to operate. This kind of good cost brings real efficiency and benefits, is the real value embodiment, should be what we usually call cost-effective.

Small cost has great value

In the cost structure of packaging and printing enterprises, some are "small cost, big value". Remove the film, ink, adhesive, the proportion of the cost of the remaining consumables is very small. According to some industry estimates, materials such as rubber rollers, water, car wash water and other chemicals account for no more than 1.5 percent of the cost of packaging and printing companies. However, these materials have a decisive influence on the product quality and production efficiency of packaging and printing enterprises, which is the so-called small cost and large value.