In the world of supply chain, data and accuracy leads to success. The carton label is critical.
Carton labeling is important to the fashion industry. Putting a proper label on a carton helps assure that it arrives to the proper location and has the proper information for a retailer or warehouse to know what product is being received. Most carton labeling application are straight forward. Shipping cartons can be applied with a printed or pre-printed label to the side of the box. They can be directly printed or added by stickering.
Clothing retailers such as Walmart, Target, T.J Maxx, Macy's, etc., all have different requirements. It is important to read the vendor manuals from each company to determine what is required when shipping to each specific retailer.
Here are a few common examples, but again you must check vendor manuals for each retailer for their requirements.
- Information must be printed on a label, then affixed to the carton or screen printed directly on the carton.
- All labels or print area must be a minimum of 20% or larger of the surface size of carton
- All labels must be on at least two adjacent sides of the carton.
Cartons must be marked with the following info (examples only):
- Vendor name
- Distribution Center name, number & address
- Purchase order number (with DC prefix)
- Department number
- Vendor style number (as it appears on the purchase order)
- Color (if applicable)
- Size/size ratio (if applicable)
- Total units (within the carton)
- Bar Code
- Pre-ticketed; Yes or No
- Country of origin
- Carton # of #
A barcode is an optical, machine-readable, representation of data; the data usually describes something about the object that carries the barcode. Originally barcodes systematically represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or one-dimensional. Later two-dimensional codes were developed, using rectangles, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns in two dimensions, usually called barcodes although they do not use bars as such. Barcodes were initially scanned by special optical scanners called barcode readers. Later applications software became available for devices that could read images, such as smartphones with cameras.
Global Trade Item Number (GTIN)
Learn more about cartons for shipping clothing.
The easier it is to obtain accurate data, the smoother the operation will flow. Being able to quickly identify products is vital in every touch point in your supply chain. Be careful to use well formatted shipping carton labels.
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