Pick And Pack Systems
Pick and pack systems are part of a complete supply chain management process that is commonly used in, but not limited to, the retail distribution of goods. It entails processing small to large quantities of product, often truck or train loads and disassembling them, picking the relevant product for each destination and re-packaging with shipping label affixed and invoice included. Usual service includes obtaining a fair rate of shipping from common as well as expediting truck carriers.
Importance
Efficiently using pick and pack is an important part of inventory management and supply chain logistics. Whether you are outsourcing your warehousing needs or handling them in-house, you need to follow certain procedures in order to ascertain you know everything that comes into your warehouse and leaves on its way to a customer.
You have to ascertain you know where everything is at all times including stock that comes in and immediately leaves under pick and pack methodology. Why does it matter if it's going to immediately go to a customer? Unless you are hand delivering that merchandise, there is a chance it will never arrive at your customer's destination, and if you have not recorded the merchandise as both incoming and outgoing inventory, you have no way of knowing if you actually shipped it.
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