Electing the Best Shipping Label Sheet Layout for Your Company

by Chelsea Camper | Last Updated December 30, 2015

Election Day is an important day for Americans. It’s up to the American people to decide who will lead the country for the next four years. While shipping label sheets aren’t quite as important as the President of the United States, it’s still important to make sure you’re choosing the right layout for your company.

Let’s take a look at how you should go about choosing the right label sheet for your company.

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The Requirements

Each company has a set of requirements that their shipping label sheet will need to have, similar to how a Presidential candidate must be 35+, born in the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years. This can range from the size of the sheet, to the number of labels, to the exact placement of the labels.

Some of the things you’ll want to consider when selecting your shipping label sheet are:

Size of the label sheet
Amount of labels
Size of labels
Placement of labels
Pre-printed text or graphics
Piggyback labels (labels on top of labels)

Primaries and Caucuses: Primary Selections

There are many different label sheet layouts for you to choose from, but you’ll have to start somewhere. Browse our standard stock of label sheets to see if any come close to matching your needs. Don’t take on the entire task alone though; ask your order fulfillment and IT departments to give their input, opinions, and suggestions for appropriate layouts.

Your order fulfillment team will know what they need to successfully fill an order accurately and quickly while your IT department will know what layouts would work with your current software. It’s important to listen and understand why each team wants a particular layout.

National Conventions: Company Wide Selections

Once your IT and order fulfillment teams have selected a layout that they think would suit your company best, it would be good to run it by other departments in your company. For example, your accounting department.

The accounting department might find that one of the layouts doesn’t give them enough information to file the invoices, or maybe one of the layouts doesn’t even have room to include the invoice.

At this point you may start to realize that you can’t please every single department. Compromises will have to be made, you just need to figure out what the most important things are to have on the label sheet.

General Election: Discussing with the Teams

Once you have enough input from the other teams in the company, it’s time to start figuring out what compromises need to be made. For example, the accounting team wants the invoice printed front and center, but order fulfillment claims that it would be faster to pick and pack if the picking slip was at the top.

By allowing each team leader to listen to what the rest of the team wants and figuring out what is needed more will divide the task so that it’s not all on one person’s shoulders. It’s also important to let everyone have a say; you never know when someone will have a genius idea that will benefit the company.

Electoral College: Talk to the Team Leaders

Finally you can go back to the team leaders to find out what each team has decided they’ll need. This is where you’ll have to make some tough choices. No one is going to get everything they want, but you’ll have to figure out what choices would be best for the company.

Would you be able to include the invoice if you used a legal size label sheet? Does printing two orders at the same time on a tabloid size label sheet speed up fulfillment enough to justify buying a printer that can print 11×17″? Graphic design team wants the text to be #333333 but accounting wants everything pure black?

After you come up with a good label sheet design that will best benefit your company, the only thing left to do is submit your design to your label sheet supplier. They’ll be able to help you make any final adjustments (for example, your perforation is a little too close to the label). After everything has been proofed and quoted, your label sheets will be built and shipped to you.

And now you have a shipping label sheet that was custom designed by your company to meet your unique needs!

Do you already have a design? Looking to get your label sheet built? We can help!

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