Corrugated Boxes

-- Logistics Management, 2/1/2001

Over the last 36 months, prices for corrugated and solid fiber boxes jumped 22.1%, even though analysts at Thinking Cap Solutions say the average cost of making boxes increased just 8.4%. This puts logistics managers in a strong negotiating position when they go to purchase boxes. Although we forecast that box prices will fall 1.3% by May, that decline will not greatly compromise suppliers' profits.