Alliance Partners
Altair Engineering
Dramatically reduce the time-to-market, material and production costs of your next packaging system by leveraging new design technologies and development strategies.
Altair Engineering provides new ways to think about the way you develop your products and support your customers. Our consultants are highly skilled, offer diverse industry experience and understand the importance of re-evaluating traditional engineering approaches. Our high level of technical education and in-depth knowledge of products and processes can assist in any stage of the development process to provide a competitive advantage through reduced time to market benefits. Let us show you how to optimize material usage in your product development process and maximize ROI while still reducing your overall business risk.
Contact: Brian Wagner at PTIS, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Business Development Associates
Business Development Associates (BDA) has been a consultant in the packaging industry for over 25 years. BDA's primary functional competence is the development and execution of technology licensing programs. Whether clients are licensing-in or licensing-out, BDA understands the business of licensing in the packaging industry including the costs and opportunities of technology transfer. Specifically, BDA assists clients as they:
- Identify license-able technologies
- Determine the licensing value of a technology
- Develop licensing strategies including identification of and distinctions among licensee candidates
- Prepare and negotiate licensing documents
Contact: Brian Wagner at PTIS, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Food Product Innovation and Commercialization
Food Product Innovation and Commercialization is a joint industry/ university program designed to provide food industry with holistic resources to facilitate the development of new and successful new food products. By integrating all elements of food marketing, technology and packaging into a coherent whole, food companies are able to generate concepts that meet consumer needs and desires and to convert these concepts into potentially profitable products on a commercial scale.
Contact: Brian Wagner at PTIS, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
GfK Group
The GfK Group helps clients address a wide variety of growth issues through Strategic Brand Innovation, a comprehensive process of finding tomorrow's high potential market space and filling it with breakthrough yet actionable innovation... innovation that results in quick, sustainable growth and creates real value.
GfK's's innovation process helps clients achieve - and often far exceed - established goals:
- Work is grounded in cutting-edge consumer research and business/market analysis, providing deep insights
- Proprietary, predictive methodologies are utilized to identify category innovation patterns and reveal true opportunities
- Strategic work is "brought to life" with exceptional creativity in order to develop, validate, and commercialize the best ideas
Global Sourcing Solutions
Global Sourcing Solutions (GSS) provides development workshops and training built upon Lowell Hoffman's 22 years as Vice President and Global Chief Purchasing Officer for 3 multinationals (National Can, Kraft, Colgate-Palmolive) followed by 11 years of consulting and training activities. Clients include the packaging, consumer product, retail, chemical, aerospace and telecommunications industries.
Lowell has conducted business in 38 countries. He has been appointed Adjunct Research Professor and Industry Fellow at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Curriculum training programs develop both process and skills for the global supply chain team including purchasing, logistics, engineering, finance, R&D and Operations. A "Supply Chain for Marketing" program is appropriate for Sales meetings and conferences. Training has been conducted in Asia, Latin America and Europe. An attractive off-site conference venue is offered, featuring guest lodges, Nicklaus Signature golf, flexible conference space and a menu of available and highly qualified speakers to enrich a client event and its objectives.
Contact: Brian Wagner at PTIS, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
InfiniteSum
Innovation Spectrum
Innovation Spectrum is a consulting firm that leverages critical consumer, marketplace and technological insights to synthesize opportunities and drive growth. Our unique approach utilizes knowledge, technologies and innovation from a broad spectrum of industries and product categories to create solutions that generate profitable outcomes for our clients.
The two principals, Rick Kaiser and Frank Schiro, have over 50 years experience developing innovative, successful consumer products and packages that have created over $1 Billion in new sales for Fortune 500 companies. Their experience covers a broad range of product platforms and industries including household care, personal care, medical care, foods, DIY home care, paints & coatings, and art & stationery. Collectively, Rick and Frank are responsible for the issuance of over 50 patents that have served as a springboard for profitable growth.
Contact: Brian Wagner at PTIS, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Leading Futurists
In nearly two decades of helping organizations, Jennifer Jarratt and John Mahaffie, founders of Leading Futurists, have learned how critical it is to make the future relevant to today. They have worked to make futures insights accessible, meaningful, and useful to managers and executives. Their work is about helping organizations face change, prepared. They can help you understand the challenges and opportunities you will face over the next decade.
Jarratt and Mahaffie were formerly principals of Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a leading futures consultancy. They have been exploring the future for organizations since the mid-1980s. Organizations they have served include: Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble, DuPont, Siemens, General Motors, Coca-Cola, The U.S. Customs Service, Nokia, Nabisco, The Kellogg Company, and The World Bank.
Leading Futurists' expertise is in combining a comprehensive knowledge of the future with proven skill at interpreting the signals of change. Mahaffie and Jarratt are experts at scenario building. They have taught the technique over many years to executives. Together they have authored dozens of trend studies and guidebooks on studying the future. They are founders of the Association of Professional Futurists, Jennifer Jarratt is Past Chair and John Mahaffie the current Vice Chair of the Board of the Association.
Contact: Brian Wagner at PTIS, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Packaging Education Alliance
This on-line training organization is a gateway to new strategies and tactics you have to know to effectively manage package today.
Packaging has grown beyond being a support function, and professionals who want to stay ahead of the curve need to sharpen their thinking on new ways to implement and manage packaging programs.
The Alliance offers on-line training seminars, designed for working professionals. They focus on critical areas today:
- Packaging development
- Holistic packaging design
- Packaging innovation that creates opportunity
- Consumer insights that drive better packaging
Training is on-line to make the most of your time. You take the on-demand seminars whenever and wherever you can connect to the Internet: office, home, even airports. Exit seminars anytime you want and come back later. Do it at your pace.
Find out more at the Alliance website: www.pkg-edu-alliance.org
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Scanbuy
Scanbuy is a resource to help you implement new marketing efforts driven by QR Codes and other mobile barcode formats. It’s ScanLife system can give you a code management platform linked to both universal mobile barcode apps and reporting systems to track codes.
New programs for QR codes include putting them on packages, neck hangers and collateral materials. Consumers can then scan those codes and link to a wide variety of information that can help prompt a sale. Links can also add value to the experience of a consumer who is already familiar with a brand.
With a QR code on a package, a consumer can go to a website, initiate a call, send a pre-filled email and do other tasks on smart phones. While QR codes may emerge as a frequently used form in packaging, Scanbuy also handles Datamatrix or EZcode in addition to standard UPC codes already used on packaging.
With the ScanLife analytics systems, you can view a range of data from what was scanned, time/date, location and even representative demographics. This can all be used to make your messaging more efficient.
Contact: Brian Wagner at PTIS, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
SoftCan Technology
Questions about shelf-stable plastic containers?
SoftCan Technology specifically serves the Food & Packaging industry in the areas of retortable plastic containers. Whether it is a retort pouch or plastic tray, cup or bottle, we can offer expert, knowledgeable guidance on vendor selection, over-pressure retorting operations and creating all regulatory required records and documents.
Training is offered in seal integrity testing, retort programming and thermal process design. Our goal is the Food Safety of your product.
Contact: Henry Strassheim, President
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Phone: (972)317-3250
Go to the SoftCan Technology, LLC web page.
