LGV, one of Austria’s biggest distributors of vegetables and fruit, in
parallel with the reusable containers handled seven types of disposable
boxes. Depending on the customer’s wishes, peppers (paprika), for
instance, were packed in eight different types of containers! This was,
of course, an untenable situation for LGV. It took six to eight people to
repack vegetables in order to deliver them to the customer in the
desired packaging. Simplification and standardization were necessary
in such a situation.