Does your factory or logistics center lose tens of thousands of dollars a year buying new pallets, IBC totes, or cages because your B2B clients do not return the empty ones?
In sectors such as food, chemicals, or construction, returnable transport packaging (RTP) is an invisible but extremely expensive asset. You ship your goods on twenty-dollar europallets or two-hundred-dollar liquid containers. The tacit agreement is that the client will return them on the next shipment, but in the day-to-day chaos, those containers pile up in their warehouses, get lost, or are kept. Because your administration team logs deliveries and pickups on unsynchronized spreadsheets, you ignore the real balance of each client and assume the cost of replacing them yourself.
The trap of Standard ERPs and Excel
To try to keep track, many SMEs use a basic warehouse module or write down balances by hand on the delivery note. However, generic systems do not know how to manage the concept of "mobile asset debt" without invoicing them initially. Trying to manage a constant flow of thousands of containers entering and leaving using a shared Excel is the foolproof recipe for stockouts and financial ruin.
Our solution: RTP Traceability Database
At LANZA ESTUDIO, we plug the capital leak in your warehouse. As software architects, we develop a relational database and a custom dashboard specialized solely in auditing, balancing, and invoicing your returnable packaging.
- Double-Entry Asset Accounting: We design a relational architecture that works like a bank: every shipment adds "packaging debt" to the client and every pickup subtracts it, maintaining an exact and auditable balance in real time.
- Scanning App for Drivers: We program an ultra-light mobile interface so drivers can log with a couple of exact taps how many empty pallets or cages they pick up at the client's dock, synchronizing instantly.
- Automatic Balance Statements: The system automatically generates and sends a monthly report to each client detailing their packaging debt, eliminating friction and arguments at the end of the year.
- Invoicing of Unreturned Packaging: We configure business logic so that if a container is not returned within the agreed timeframe (e.g., 90 days), the software automatically generates an invoice for the replacement value of the asset.
The Real Impact on your Logistics Costs
- Radical Savings on Replacement Purchases: By keeping strict mathematical control, you force clients to return your assets, reducing your annual pallet and container purchasing budget by eighty percent.
- Transparent Commercial Relationships: You eliminate toxic arguments with your buyers; by sending them automated monthly statements, the client assumes their responsibility without conflicts.
- Zero Administrative Management: Your office team stops cross-referencing delivery and pickup notes by hand, relying on a database that balances the logistics accounts for them.