Warehouse Labeling Best Practices

Warehouse Labeling Best Practices | LoadProof

This is another video on the best practices that you could follow while loading the product in your distribution center. One important thing that you could do is applying the right labels on the product, because when people see the labels they would be careful while handling these products, the pallet, and the merchandise. When you tell them with the label ahead of time they will be a lot more careful about doing their job and this is even more about human psychology.

For example to my developers I prepared this design document, so what we do and that’s a rule that we follow throughout our organization. We put a lot of care in preparing the design spec or whatever we do if it’s a screenshot we do a lot of care and prepare a thorough document that not only addresses all the requirements but also looks clean and nice and because when things are beautiful and they look clean people trust them more.

So the same psychology applies here as well, when you are shipping something you nicely packet and shrink-wrap it and you nicely apply the label and everything looks so clean and on top of it you put these labels with proper instructions. There are so many different labels that you can put and you can even make custom labels based on your specific product or specific conditions of your product. It just adds tremendous value and this human psychology works really well. When you do all that great job and apply this label and give it to them, give it to a carrier or person on the other end or a 3PL there is the humans. Humans are always mirror, they do what other people do, I mean if you go and smile at a person the person will smile back at you and if you go and yell at a person, the person will yell back at you so that’s how humans operate.

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