Sort And Pack Fulfillment Solutions: Value Added Services

VAS

VAS:

Ticketing
Sorting including Shade Sorting
Return Processing Inspection and Rework
Repackaging
Quality Inspection
Gift Set Assembly
Sorting and Resizing
Garment Label Redline/Blackout
Barcoding
Hang Tags/Joker Tags
Bagging
Measurement
Counting
Glue Dot Application and Water Seal Application
VELCRO Application
Collation
Cello/Shrink/Bundle/Band
Heat Seal Machinery
Laundry Services
Bulk to Pre-Pack or Pre-Pack to Bulk
Returns Rework and Refurbishing
Batch Code Printing and Labeling

A streamlined process that fits your project and deadline

Sort and Pack is committed to consistent response and high quality Value Added Services (VAS). The VAS services that we provide cover a wide variety of customers’ needs serving many industries — including print, retail, wholesale, medical supplies, promotional, manufacturing, advertising, etc.

We focus on solutions that are timely, flexible, cost-effective and quality conscious, to meet your demands. Attention given to brand integrity and high quality production standards, while meeting time-sensitive deadlines, are the hallmarks of our success.

Flexibility and adaptability are critical to fulfill your needs and objectives. We adjust our facility and work stations to meet the project needs — from traditional services to highly complex performance standards, including short- and long-term projects from small batch to high volume production. We often work on tight timelines and will add extra shifts and/or weekends and holidays to meet your needs.

High quality packaging

We source the materials you need to protect your product: shrink wrap, cellophane wrapping, bubble-mailers, porous paper, liners, corrugated cardboard, mailing tubes, boxes, blister packs, multi-packs, displays and unique elements for special promotions. When clients need additional packaging or need to make some changes to packaging, such as colored fillers or bags, Sort And Pack’s team is there to assist.

Safe Packaging to Eliminate Damage

Sort and Pack offers special packaging services for products that require extra protection. For fragile or breakable items, we individually wrap products in bubble wrap before packaging the product for shipping, including:

Shrink, bundle-wrapping, blister pack, gift pack, displays
Multi-packs, tray packs, banding
Clamshell, flow-wrap, fin-seal, thermoform
Counter, floor, end-cap and clip-strip displays
Cello wrapping (cosmetics, gift wraps)

For example, liquid dietary supplements are bottled in special MIRON violet glass to block out full spectrum light and to avoid the degrading effect that light could have on the product. For products that could potentially break and leak:

We wrap each bottle individually in expandable, absorbent paper
We affix product-identifying stickers so it can be easily recognized in inventory
We ensconce the product in bubble wrap prior to shipping
We can also include product and packaging inserts, such as directions and instructions, product return information and more

Secure shipments ensure quality and accuracy

Completed kits are stored with your inventory and mapped to a specific SKU distinct from those assigned to products that may be shipped separately. The shipment SKUs are mapped to facilitate inventory as well as shipment tracking.

Sort and Pack’s team can prepare volumes of pre-packaged kits to have ready for your future order shipments and our account managers can map new kit SKUs anytime you need to add them. Most shipments include some type of insert, whether an instructional manual, receipt or package return information.

In addition to knowing where all their products and materials are, our clients never have to worry about whether Sort and Pack can handle their next project. Whether 1,000 units or 1 million, Sort and Pack has a trained staff to handle the product assembly, kitting and shipping needs of our clients, after all your business is our business.

Quality Control Measures

Sort and Pack’s well-defined kitting and assembly process ensures efficiency and order accuracy. Final kits are spot-checked to ensure quality as a final measure of precision.

Maintaining inventoried pre-packaged kits allow Sort and Pack’s customers to react quickly in cases of sudden increases in retail order demand. Additionally, Sort and Pack’s order-grouping technology recognizes orders shipping to an identical address and groups the products into one shipment to save our customers on both packaging and postage costs.

Quality Control Case Studies:

Jewelry

Product correction with assembly with pick and pack of 80,000 units of pendant necklaces

Cut off inferior bail from pendant
Affix new bail and pinch closed
Open clasp of chain
Place on a display card
Affix price and security tickets to the display card
Insert card into clam shell jewelry box
Insert box into protective sleeve
Affix price ticket
Pick and pack by style, by store
Ship to regional fulfillment centers

Clothing

Shade inspection of 50,000 garments

Receive goods in printer fold quantities
Inspect garment or color shading to customer shading tolerance
Separate unacceptable vs. acceptable
Acceptable garments — fold, ticket, insert into poly bag, pick to prepack specifications, pack by store, apply store label, ship to fulfillment center
Unacceptable garments — count, bulk pack, ship to fulfillment center

Packaged Food

Storage and order case pick of 10 truckloads of packaged candy

Receive by trailer candy with expiration date sensitive multi SKUs; solid and mixed product pallets
Store by SKU on pallets of a standard quantity
Pick by case order
Label pallets per instructions for LTL shipments to stores
Cycle count by request

Seasonal Recalls for Major Retail Chain

Process mark out-of-stock and/or seasonal recalls for major retail chain of over 250 SKUs

Receive multi-SKU merchandise from individual stores or regional return centers
Verify merchandise against manifest or packing list
Maintain inventory of items received by SKU
Inspect all merchandise
Repair/re-sew labels as needed
Fold
Replace packaging if needed
Re-ticket as necessary
Store inventory

After customer evaluates inventory:

Option 1:
Replace price tickets
Pick/Pack by store
Ship to fulfillment center or re-label and ship direct stores

Option2:
Remove price tickets
Prepare shipment for sell-off

Customer Returns

Inspection and re-work of customer returns processing
Receive gaylords of returned mixed merchandise
Remove merchandise from bag
Inspect for any default
Use lint roller and dry sponge as needed to remove any foreign particles from garment
Re-bag acceptable merchandise in new size appropriate poly bag
Consolidate and bag unacceptable merchandise

Sorting Sports Jerseys

Quality sort of NFL team themed winter styled jackets

Receive floor-loaded overseas containers
Sort and palletize cartons solid packed by team and size
Complete 14-point quality inspection
Re-polybag acceptable merchandise
Provide customer summary of acceptable merchandise – Team to size
Customer provides distribution
Pick by team and size, by PO, by store
Create packing lists and caron
Arrange freight as needed

Wholesale & Liquidation

We offer fulfillment services for liquidations, closeouts, retail returns and refurbished inventory. for retailers and manufacturers, who need to offload their unsold and returned merchandise.