The 9 Best Practices to Ship Your Products without Any Damages to Retailers and avoid retail chargebacks, freight claims, damage claims and rejected loads

September 17, 2020

Here is the list of top 9 Best Practices to consider when shipping products to retailer/ customer. It is also to be mentioned that most of these best practices can be accomplished easily with little process changes. A perfectly curated list of top warehouse shipping best practices!

1.The Best Practices in Avoiding Pallet Damages and Separation During Transit

Avoid pallet damages and separation during domestic and international transits with these pallet transit best practices from the supply chain expert. Read full article >>

2.The Pallets Loading Best Practice that you must consider at your Warehouse Facility

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Follow these warehouse pallet loading best practices while loading pallets with high value products in to the trailer. Applies to both local and international shipping. Read full article >>

3.The Best Practices for Stacking Pallets and Products while Shipping

Follow these stacking best practices while loading pallets and high value products in to the trailer. This best practice applies to both local and international shipping. Read full article >>

4. The Best Practice You Must Consider while Sealing FTL Containers

Follow these FTL container sealing best practices while shipping them to your customers. This applies to both local and international shipping. Read full article >>

5. The Warehouse Labeling Best Practices to Consider while Loading Products

Follow these warehouse pallet and product labeling best practices to avoid damages and improve customer satisfaction. Read full article >>

6. The Load Bar Best Practices to Consider when Shipping Products to Your Retailer

Follow these load bar best practices when shipping high value loads to your customer or retailer. Reduce product damages and improve shipping quality. Read full article >>

7. The Best Practices to Consider when Loading LTL and FTL to Avoid Damages

Consider these loading best practices when shipping products through LTL and FTL carriers. Avoid damages and save dollars on disputes. Read full article >>

8. The Best Practices to Consider While Loading Temperature Sensitive Products

Consider these loading best practices when loading temperature sensitive products. Avoid load rejects and save on freight claims. Read full article >>

9.The Load Strapping Best Practices to Consider During Shipping to Avoid Costly Damages

Consider these load strapping best practices, when loading pallets into the trailer to avoid costly damages during shipping. Read full article >>

Puga Sankara

Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 50 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard and video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at [email protected] or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com.