If you sell products, order fulfillment is one of the most important functions that your company performs. Done correctly, it can lead to repeat business because your customers know that they can rely on you. The more efficient your company becomes at order fulfillment, the more orders you can handle. Below are the components of a successful order fulfillment department:
1. Well-Trained Staff – Train your employees properly on equipment and systems to handle the inflow of orders. Make sure your manager is an experienced communicator who can direct and delegate. Attention to detail is a must at this level.Â
2. Sufficient Product Supply – Maintain an adequate supply of inventory that is organized, available, and ready-to-ship. Group like items together, clearly labeled with item numbers. Analyze customers’ buying trends to ensure stock on the most popular items.
3. High Quality Shipping Supplies- Equip your warehouse with high quality, compatible supplies such as boxes, packing material, tape and labels. Make sure your boxes are “crush resistant” so that they will survive in transit. Use a laser printer for printing of shipping labels, as inkjet can cause problems with your carrier’s scanning equipment.
4. Flexible Carrier Pickup – Choose a carrier that will work with your operating hours. Arranging an automated pickup can be convenient and cost-effective. Arrange with carrier to have driver pick-up occur at same time each day. Obviously, the later in the day, the more orders you can get out the door.
5. Systematic Procedures - Define policies and procedures. Systematize and streamline. Consider such activities as batch picking, where the same item is picked in large quantities for use in multiple orders. An excellent method of streamlining your shipping process is to have the shipping label and packing list on the same page. This cuts down on errors and saves time.
6. Smart Technology – Utilize whatever technology is available to you, including electronic packing lists, automated label/packing list printing and automated order entry. Combining your ecommerce web site and your accounting systems with your order fulfillment streamlines your use of manpower.
Once all of these elements are in place, challenges such as matching packing slip with actual item to be shipped and the shipping label, as well as picking the correct items becomes routine. Efficient order fulfillment systems enable your shipping department to fill orders faster with less error. This will result in lower costs and improved customer service which, in turn, will allow your company to increase sales and improve your bottom line.
Peel Out! Shipping Label Sheets™ are available in over 30 layouts. Each layout consists of at least two sections: one or more labels and a separate plain paper section.  Companies can process orders faster by printing shipping labels on the same sheet as the packing list (or invoice). Free templates, free samples, and custom quotes are available.
Peel Out! Shipping Label Sheets™ are the perfect complement to streamline the fulfillment process, on one sheet. Pick, Pack and Ship from one sheet! Peel Out! Shipping Label Sheets™ are available in over 30 layouts. Each layout consists of at least two sections: one or more labels and a separate plain paper section.  Free templates, free samples, and custom quotes are available.
Read the helpful tips in this article Bad Packaging Can Ruin a Good Day, from Parcel Magazine, about helping your shipment arrive intact. The tips are easy to implement, practical, and include using free shipping supplies.
“The packing slips are working great. We are using them to process our online book orders. We package the book with the slip and put the tear off on the outside of the package for processing. It is working great and saving a ton of time.”
Available at no additional charge to new and existing Stamps.com customers, this new USPS ecommerce shipping integration allows Zen Cart users to import customer order data and print shipping labels for all USPS mail classes, domestic or international. After printing your shipping labels, Stamps.com automatically posts order status details such as tracking number, ship date, and mail class back to the Zen Cart database.
Q:Â I’m looking for “peel out” packing list labels that are oriented landscape rather than portrait. We print two packing lists per page, and since the barcode is at the bottom of each packing list, we need peel out labels which are stacked vertically on the right side of a portrait layout.
A:Â The following layouts feature two labels on the right side of a portrait layout:
Q:Â Do you offer an 8 1/2″ X 14″ pre-printed sheet with a pull out label with perf, that could work as a UPS ship label and return label?
A: We would recommend the Peel Out! Shipping Label Sheet (Item#LS-ULTPS). It is an 8 1/2″ X 14″ sheet with one 7 1/2″ X 5 1/8″ label. It features One Horizontal perforation, which is 6″ from the top of the sheet. It works with UPS, FedEx, DHL, and USPS Click-N-Ship. When this product is out of stock, it will be discontinued as a stock item. You can still order it as a customer job with a minimum quantity of 5,000.
I am looking for printer paper where the top portion is adhesive, for placing on packages. I am selling items on Amazon and use Stamps.com, and I believe there is a way to print out our packing slips through them where the top is mailing label and the bottom is packing slip. Do you sell such an item?
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