ISTA’s Digital Cloud Application to Streamline Data Collection in Packaging

The International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) launched ISTA Digital, a cloud application aimed at revolutionizing packaging design and enhancing transparency in distribution chains.

"ISTA Digital represents a significant leap forward in our mission to promote the safe and sustainable transportation of products worldwide,” says ISTA president and CEO A.J. Gruber. “By providing our members with advanced digital solutions, we are empowering them to make informed decisions, reduce product damage and achieve sustainability goals.”

Key takeaways:

• Designed to address the complexities of modern supply chains, ISTA Digital equips users with tools to comprehensively understand distribution cycles, identify challenges and optimize packaging designs for enhanced performance and sustainability.
• Key features include comprehensive data collection, where users can collect and upload observational supply chain and distribution cycle data, including photos, videos and metric data to build distribution maps and associate product and package handling, equipment and storage data as well as distribution environment hazard data.
• Other features include enhanced collaboration, project management tools to document and share packaging design, development, and testing projects, manage project timelines, and track the success of optimization initiatives over time, and it being a privacy-first platform.

“This is really a new era for collaboration and transparency in packaging design,” says Matt Thompson, VP of program and market development for ISTA. “With its robust features, ISTA Digital will change the way ISTA members — and all packaging professionals — work in the future.”