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By: Fashion Incubator » Freight and warehouse chargebacks

Fashion Incubator » Freight and warehouse chargebacks — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:41:57 +0000

[...] The Importance of Product Identification, Miracle goes to some length describing the biggest aggravations with processing goods from small [...]

By: Fashion Incubator » Importance of Product Identification pt. 2

Fashion Incubator » Importance of Product Identification pt. 2 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:23:14 +0000

[...] Posted by Miracle Wanzo on Jan 23, 2006 at 12:20 pm / Fulfillment, Sales and Marketing / Trackback [...]

By: Fashion Incubator » Product storage problems pt.2

Fashion Incubator » Product storage problems pt.2 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:07:16 +0000

[...] long time ago, I wrote a series of posts on proper item identification and the reasons for them. The idea is that anyone [...]

By: Fashion Incubator » Vendor Compliance Handbook 2

Fashion Incubator » Vendor Compliance Handbook 2 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:55:24 +0000

[...] This chapter supports the entries that Miracle had written previously on product labeling and fullfillment. Honestly, I only scanned it long enough to determine it’ll require [...]

By: Fashion-Incubator

Fashion-Incubator — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:13:45 +0000

Freight and warehouse chargebacks

Chargebacks are a fine or penalty that a retailer will levy against the vendor (you). If you are assessed a chargeback, the fee is deducted from what they owe you on the invoice. Chargebacks can be assessed for reasons such…

By: MW

MW — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:58:23 +0000

Jenny,

You will always have some retailers who have their own store hangtags, but so many retailers use the hangtags already on the garment. It makes it easy if the style # and the size are already on the hangtag and they just fill in the price because a lot of retailers will use the manufacturer’s item # (yours) to track inventory if it’s on the hangtag.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:51:39 +0000

Miracle, I have a question. This may be a little off topic and probably reveals my naivety, but here goes.

Do retailers want to add their own hanging price tag or should our tags provide an area to put their price on?

By: MW

MW — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:15:42 +0000

But in order not to HATE “them”..may I suggest a solution from your end:
Use your OWN purchase order forms and have ALL stipulations written on that form.

Actually, Christy, I already do that. most companies don’t even follow the stipulation:

Bill to this address (send invoice to this address) and ship to this address (packing slip only).

I cannot even begin to tell you how many companies:

1- don’t send invoices to the billing address
2- include credit card receipts in the shipment even though it specifies packing slip only

The statement “I hate you” was meant to be tongue in cheek and not taken literally.

(I saw in another post that this is another “problem” for you)

Actually it’s not a problem for me.

By: christy fisher

christy fisher — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:13:58 +0000

I understand the pain of not being able to inventory in stock. Unfortunately many young designers are self taught, or taught by schools who do not teach merchandising skills.
It is unfortunate..
But in order not to HATE “them”..may I suggest a solution from your end:
Use your OWN purchase order forms and have ALL stipulations written on that form. If the designer/company does not comply, then you will not accept the order.
When I have dealt with majors in the past (Macys, Burdine’s, Dillard’s, Disney World) they ALL used their own forms and each company had different sets of rules for their shipping/inventory situations…and they went as far as to say ON THEIR PURCHASE ORDER that they were not required to PAY if the order was not in compliance to their shipping terms. Each box had to have specific routing numbers on the outside and specific paperwork on the inside.(Some purchase orders had 2 additional attached pages of “rules”)
It was a real pain on MY end, but we complied with each company in order to get the $$$orders$$$.
If you are ordering large enough quantity, you can even write your own “rules” as far as “no website addresses are to be displayed on non-removable tags”, etc (I saw in another post that this is another “problem” for you).
We have also sent stock to one boutique in Florida who wants us to leave out our label (not the fiber content..the nametag) so they can sew in their own store labels.

By: MW

MW — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:46:52 +0000

I was “supposed to” finish the second part, which would include some photos of example labels. But that won’t happen today.

But you asked a great question that I wanted to address.

I have seen “green” designers use recycled paper printed with soy ink. How do I know? It says so right on the hangtag. Those hangtags seem to have a certain value with the consumer.

As far as avoiding the plastics, I am not too sure. You need *something* to protect a product from moisture during shipping. But not just moisture, one of the wierdest experiences I had was when the “handling” of a package caused the product to be “bruised” while the box was perfectly intact, so there is need for some type of protective packaging. And it wasn’t a re-packaged package either (if a box falls apart in transit, the couriers will re-package it).

Let’s say you don’t want to use polybags for each individual item, would placing all items in a shipment inside one big polybag (made of recyclable plastic) be good enough? I don’t know of any alternatives, but I do know that it’s just risky to ship textile based products with no protection at all.

The individually bagged products aren’t an absolute necessity, I am sure there are plenty of retailers who HATE to unwrap individually bagged items, so everybody won’t be happy, either way you do it. But the reason a lot of companies bag everything is because warehouse-storage environments are often incredibly dusty (no matter how hard you try), it reduces the incidence of *hands* handling and touching the garment, and items are individually bagged to keep them clean and make them easier to pull out of a bin to pack for shipping (i.e. a folded item would have to be carefully picked up so that you don’t unfold it).