Warehouse Packaging Process
Before shipping, businesses need to make sure that the items will arrive in good condition. Packaging is a form of protection against environmental threats that the product will face from the time it leaves warehouse facility until the time it reached the customer. The packaging is intended to provide protection for the item as it is being handled in the warehouse or when the item is being shipped.
What is Packing?
Before shipping, businesses need to make sure that the items will arrive in good condition. Packaging is a form of protection against environmental threats that the product will face from the time it leaves warehouse facility until the time it reached the customer. The packaging is intended to provide protection for the item as it is being handled in the warehouse or when the item is being shipped. In this process, warehouse workers pick products from the storage locations and move them to a packing station where they check the item quantities and types, and assign them to appropriate containers. When a container is fully packed, they can close it and move it to the outbound docks, and the products are ready to ship.
Packing Process
The packing process allows you to validate and pack products into containers. Packing in a warehouse depends on the way the inventory is picked and the reference available to the packer. Packing also depends on the containerization process. Once an order is picked, it is handed off to a packer. The packer is responsible for securely placing the items in a box or poly mailer, adding in any needed packing materials, and putting a shipping label on it.
Packaging Product Dimensions
Before items can be stored or packed efficiently, warehouse management system need to understand and define packaging product dimensions for each of the product. Each dimension type provides a set of physical measurements (weight, width, depth, and height), and establishes the process where those physical measurement values apply.
Some examples of packaging dimensions are given below:
Storage Storage dimensions: are used along with location volumetric to determine how many of each item can be stored in various warehouse locations.
Packing Packing dimensions: are used during containerization and the manual packing process to determine how many of each item will fit in various container types.
Nested Packing: Nested packing dimensions are used when the packing process contains multiple levels.
Shipping Dimensions Shipping dimensions of the product may be different from actual, laid out dimensions. Shipping dimensions refer to the size of the item or package when it will be shipped. This may include extra padding or wiggle room required.
Packaging Types
There are different types of packaging that are used for finished goods; internal packaging and external packaging. The external packaging must be sufficient to protect the internal packaging as well as the finished item. The external packaging should have dimensions that allow a suitable quantity to be stored on a pallet most efficiently. Choosing the right packaging for a shipment depends on the products, the shipping method, and the destination. The right packaging method is the one that ensures that your product arrives in good condition for the lowest cost.
- By far the most common form of packaging is cardboard, also known as corrugated fiberboard or just corrugate. Corrugate is cheap, strong, and light, so it’s the perfect material for packaging all kinds of products.
- Some products can still get damaged if they move around inside a cardboard box, however. One solution is to add filler materials such as packing paper, packing peanuts, or bubble wrap.
- If the products you’re shipping are sensitive to moisture, there may be a need to use an anticorrosion coating, special wrapping, or moisture-absorbing packets.
- Electronic products are sensitive to static electricity, so these products require special protection against electrostatic discharge.
Packing Materials and Fees
Packing material fees are paid to vendor company based on per unit of weight, for each material that a packing unit consists of. Packing material weights and fees are calculated for sales order lines and purchase order lines. Packing Cost is calculated based on type of packing material and price of same for a specific period.
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