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The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will be hosting a webinar with Specright on 29 June, which will discuss how organisations can better reach their goals using packaging data.

The ‘Specification Management 101: How to reach your goals using packaging data’ webinar will be followed by a live Q&A with Specright’s Matthew Wright, president and CEO, and Adam Armstrong, vice-president of strategic partnerships. 

The webinar will cover the state of specification management at companies today; industry best practices for using a spec-first approach to packaging and the supply chain; and how packaging spec data can drive value and can help to reach goals within sustainability, compliance, speed-to-market and more. 

“For years, companies managed the data needed to make products in spreadsheets or legacy systems, but growing product portfolios and supply chain complexity made managing and sharing data using outdated methods unsustainable,” said Nerida Kelton, executive director of the AIP.

“Legacy systems for managing specifications were not built to handle market trends and often buckle under the pressure of a growing company. 

”Organisations today need complete visibility into their supply chains, a single source of truth for data, and the tools to make intelligent and risk-based decisions. This tension created the need for purpose-built software to manage specification data.” 

Specright will also be working with the AIP education team to include some hands-on interactive sessions on the system within the AIP training course portfolio, which will be released later this year. 

All AIP members and industry colleagues are invited to join Specright for the webinar. For more details or to register for the event, click here.

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