Labeling and Relabeling

Labeling and relabeling, done at the packing bench

Labels fail shipments more often than customs does. A code that cannot be scanned at a receiving dock, an old barcode still showing through a new one, a warning that exists in the wrong language — each turns a delivery into a rejection, and the rejection is discovered days later at somebody else's building. So label work gets treated as its own station here, with the specification in front of the person doing it.

What we do at that bench: apply SKU and unit identifiers to the receiving standard your destination publishes, put product and compliance marking on the item or its retail packaging, cover or neutralize the previous code where the new one must be the only readable mark, and build outer-carton identification so a warehouse knows what it is holding without opening anything. Polybags get their sufficiency warning where the bag itself is the hazard.

What we do not do: guess a specification. Send the receiving requirements for the destination you are shipping to, or tell us the destination and we will pull the current one, because the version that matters is the one in force the week your cartons arrive. Where a label carries a legal claim — age grading, ingredient listing, a CE or UKCA marking — the content is yours and its correctness stays yours; our job is to place it, legibly and in the right position, and to tell you when artwork will not survive the size it has been specified at.

Print quality is checked against a scanner, not an eye, at the same station that applies it, and a batch that reads inconsistently is redone before it reaches a handover. Like everything else in this warehouse, it starts at one unit — a relabeling run has no order floor.

Related: how stock is staged before it enters an Amazon receiving center and which weeks the first leg has to be booked in carry the receiving-side detail, and one-piece fulfillment explains where labeling sits in a single-unit order flow.