ChatGPT Plugin

PackIndex

Packaging price benchmarks

Brand: PackIndex

Category: Operations
Primary Subcategory: Market & Competitive Intelligence Data

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Description

PackIndex is a price benchmark for packaging procurement. It helps packaging buyers, procurement and sourcing teams, converters and sustainability managers check what packaging materials and finished packs should cost today, and why. What you can do: • Look up today's benchmark price for inputs (crude oil, natural gas, power, aluminium, recovered paper), raw materials (PP, HDPE, PET, pulp), semi-finished grades (kraftliner, boxboard, BOPP film) and finished packs (corrugated boxes, bottles, pouches), in USD and your currency, with recent changes. • Check whether a supplier's quote is fair against the benchmark and its 12-month range. • Recalculate an index-linked contract price from its base date. • Compare one material across Europe, the US, China and the Middle East, see what drove a price move, or view the 12-week outlook. • See the carbon footprint of a material or pack. • Estimate the cost of a corrugated box from its size and flute. With an OPN account you can also: • Design Studio: turn a short brief into a packaging spec, cost it, and find cheaper or lighter options that still meet your performance floor. • PACKIQ analyses: analyse a supplier quote line by line, estimate EPR fees, or grade a pack's recyclability. • Trade Exchange: find suppliers for a material or project and, when you confirm, send them a request for quotation. Your identity is shared only after a supplier responds. Limitations: values are indicative market benchmarks, not supplier quotes or financial advice, and exclude freight, duties and payment terms. Some features need an OPN account. Cite values as PackIndex with their date.

Integration type: Plugin
Verification status: Not applicable
Platform: ChatGPT
Category: Operations
Primary Subcategory: Market & Competitive Intelligence Data
Secondary Subcategories: None listed
Brand: PackIndex
Access: Account required
First tracked: 2026-10-13
Tool count: 26
Market: US

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Tools

26 tools agents can invoke

Ask a plain-English question about packaging costs, indices or which PACKIQ agent to use. Returns a structured, citable answer grounded in PackIndex data.
packindex_query
Is this supplier price fair? Compares a quoted price (any currency; per t, kg, lb, unit…) with the PackIndex benchmark: difference %, verdict FAIR / HIGH / LOW, where the quote sits in the benchmark's 12-month range and, with a quantity, the overpayment. Free callers are compared with the 12-week delayed reference value.
check_quote
One material across regions — e.g. PP in Europe, US, China and the Middle East — in USD with spreads vs a reference region; add freight per unit and duty % to compare landed costs. Professional plan and above.
compare_regions
Turn a plain-language packaging brief into a structured spec (format, materials, dimensions, quantity, assumptions) saved as a Design Studio project. Requires the user's OPN account (sign-in or API key); spends 1 Suite run (Intelligence includes monthly free runs).
draft_packaging_spec
Optimise a Design Studio project (or a material): right-size, lightweight and substitute options with cost and carbon savings anchored to PackIndex. Requires the user's OPN account (sign-in or API key); spends 1 Suite run.
compare_packaging_options
Derive the bill of materials for a Design Studio project (or a spec object) and anchor each component to live PackIndex values. Requires the user's OPN account (sign-in or API key); spends 1 Suite run.
cost_packaging_spec
The user's Design Studio packaging projects (id, name, pack type, status) and Suite runs left. Use it before compare_packaging_options or post_rfq when the user refers to 'my project' without an id. Requires the user's OPN account.
list_my_projects
Change a Design Studio project's order quantity, target region, contents size (boxes — enables right-sizing), name or performance floor (corrugated: ECT; folding cartons: bending stiffness in mN·m; rigid packs: top-load kgf). Free — no Suite run; a new quantity re-prices the existing bill of materials. Use it when the user gives the real volume before comparing options or requesting quotes.
update_project
Price a corrugated RSC box (FEFCO 0201) from internal dimensions and flute (E, B, C, F or double-wall), anchored to the PackIndex RSC benchmark, with a low/mid/high band, optional order total and a next-quarter projection. Returns the sources to cite.
estimate_packaging_price
Who can quote a material or a Design Studio project: live Trade Exchange listings (price vs PackIndex benchmark) plus matched converters from the verified supplier network, filtered by country. Use before post_rfq. A project_id needs the user's OPN account; a material code works for anyone.
find_suppliers
The user's sent RFQs with how many suppliers received each and how many responded; pass rfq_id for the responses (bids and, once a supplier responds, their contact).
get_my_rfqs
Request quotes on the OPN Trade Exchange for a Design Studio project or a PackIndex material code to up to 3 suppliers. listing_ids (from find_suppliers) or, by default, the 3 best-matching listings get an RFQ — needs a verified e-mail and an Exchange plan with RFQs (Business+). company_slugs (converters from find_suppliers) ask those companies to quote; the Exchange contacts them for the buyer, anonymously. Real e-mails are sent — confirm the selection with the user first.
post_rfq
Why did a price move? Splits the change over 1w / 1m / 3m / 6m / 1y into the moves of its inputs (e.g. PP ← propylene, gas, power; kraftliner ← OCC, pulp; boxes ← board grades) and the rest (margins, demand, supply). Essential plan and above.
explain_price_move
Carbon footprint: finished packs (L3) in kg CO2e per unit with grade A-D; raw materials and semi-finished (board grades, pulps, polymers, aluminium, steel, cullet) in kg CO2e per tonne, virgin and PEF CFF, optionally at your recycled content. For Scope 3 Category 1: factor × units or tonnes.
get_carbon_index
12-week forward value for any PackIndex code — inputs, raw materials, semi-finished and finished packs: current level, projection, projected change and confidence. Intelligence plan.
get_index_forecast
Price history for any PackIndex code (L0-L3), one value per date: every point for up to 3 months, weekly closes for longer spans, with the change between points. Depth follows the caller's plan (observer 3mo · essential 3mo · professional 24mo · intelligence 24mo); free history ends 12 weeks ago.
get_index_history
Today's value of one PackIndex code — commodity inputs (L0: oil, gas, power, metals, recovered fibre), raw materials (L1: PP, HDPE, pulp…), semi-finished (L2: kraftliner, films…) or finished packs (L3) — in USD (and your currency), with 1-week / 1-month / 3-month / 1-year change (each period only where that much history exists) and carbon data where scored. Free callers get a 12-week delayed reference value (plus a daily live rotation); live values need the Essential plan.
get_live_index
Today's values for up to 20 PackIndex codes in one call (any layer: oil, gas, resins, pulp, board, films, finished packs) with 1w/1m/3m/1y change — for watchlists and cost models. Free callers get 12-week delayed reference values.
get_prices
Recalculate an index-linked contract price: base price and base date plus the indices it follows and their weights (the rest is fixed). Returns the adjusted price, each index's ratio and effect, and the formula. Essential plan (base dates up to 3 months back), Professional (24 months).
price_adjustment
Page through index values by layer: L0 primary inputs, L1 raw materials, L2 semi-finished (paid plans) and L3 finished packs. Prefer get_prices for specific codes; use this for portfolio scans. Paginate with limit/offset (next_offset is returned while more rows remain).
get_all_indices
Biggest risers and fallers among inputs (L0), raw materials (L1) and semi-finished (L2) over 1w / 1m / 3m / 1y, optionally within a group (e.g. 'polymer', 'fibre', 'energy'). Essential plan and above.
get_market_movers
Benchmark every line of a pasted supplier packaging quote against live PackIndex finished-pack indices: deviation from the benchmark and a verdict per line (Sharp, Competitive, High, Overpriced), with market evidence for lines more than 8% above index. Requires the user's OPN account; costs 2 PACKIQ credits (refunded automatically if the run fails).
packiq_quote_analysis
Estimate annual Extended Producer Responsibility fees for a packaging portfolio across active schemes (EU member states, UK, US states, Canada, Chile, Brazil): fee band per format, total liability by market and a reformulation priority list. Requires the user's OPN account; costs 4 PACKIQ credits (refunded automatically if the run fails).
packiq_epr_fees
Grade a packaging structure on the EU PPWR recyclability scale (A to F) from its substrate, layers, inks, closures and adhesives: grade, reasoning, EPR eco-modulation impact and options to reach a higher grade. Requires the user's OPN account; costs 4 PACKIQ credits (refunded automatically if the run fails).
packiq_recyclability
Live supplier offers on the OPN Trade Exchange, filterable by PackIndex material code and origin, each with its PackIndex benchmark (live on paid plans, 12-week delayed otherwise). No contact details — RFQs happen on the Exchange.
search_exchange_listings
Find PackIndex codes by material, input, format or plain words ('polypropylene', 'recovered paper', 'natural gas', 'kraftliner', 'corrugated box'). Returns published codes with layer (L0 inputs, L1 raw materials, L2 semi-finished, L3 finished packs), region and unit — no prices. Use first when you don't know the exact code.
search_indices

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