Saturday, August 26, 2017

How International Shipping Cremains Are Made Simple

By Raymond Snyder


International shippers handle complex operations in a larger area. International shipping cremains preparation, labeling and packing requirements are designed to handle units as efficiently as possible. This allows the processing of millions of orders everyday and helps them provide the best experience to customers.

Before items are shipped internationally, it's essential to ensure that those items are well packaged and made presentable for them to be received in time. Items that do not conform to standard requirements and properly cared for before sending is going cause delays, cause problems in the inventory and may be incorrectly received, damaged or lost. When shipments arrive at a company's premises, normally, there is a designated person to scan the shipping label and ensure its ID matches with what is already in the system at that center.

Different items must not be bound or taped together. To avoid confusion, your shipping items shouldn't have different scannable barcode from the one on the shipping label. Packages that don't match the set size requirements may have to be handled differently and often delays the receiving process.

The next step in the inbound process is opening the main box. If the shipping label is placed over the seam of the box it can be damaged during transit, become unreadable for carrier and other systems or be destroyed as the one who handles that aspect opens the box.

Ensure shipping label is placed on an area of the package that is flat for it to be scannable during the entire inbound process. If it is packed well and even the label is placed in a way that makes reading or scanning difficult it delays the receipt of the package. The appropriate packing dunnage or packing material to use are air pillows, full sheets of paper, or foams. It is advisable not to use loose packing materials for shipments.

Those who ship abroad verify that bar codes are on individual items contained in the boxes and can be scanned. Each item in shipping box should have their own scannable barcode. In case there is no scannable barcode on individual items, they are put aside for proper identification.

Case-packed units should only have barcodes on the individual packages and not on the outer carton. Barcodes on the packaging box might lead to different packages being received as one package. Units are mostly evaluated to see if they need additional preparation to ensure that they would not become damaged during storage and shipment. If preparation is required, but was not performed prior to being received at the shipping center, the units are put aside for special handling. Also, items should not have any loose packaging.

Items that require additional preparation when they arrive at the warehouse get delayed before they are placed into inventory. Based on the number of items that need preparation, the delay can be two(2) to three(3) days. Units that don't need extra preparation are marked received. At the time the items are being received, someone carries out complete check of every unit to make sure that that unit is not destroyed. Please make sure every single unit is properly packaged to avoid any damages in transit. Title checks are also done. Always do well to follow the tips above to make any shipment simpler.




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