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Pick List

Purpose: Tool for ensuring accurate garment types and totals in each job.

Master List File Name: PICKLIST

Format: two to a Page, 1 Part

A pick list is an offshoot of the order form that is used to record the quantity and type of garments for an order. The list is used by the person gathering the garments to be used in an order, and can either act as a guide to the garments needed or as a verification of the same. A pick list becomes an important tool as your shop's size increases. Small shops rarely use them, but when a shop grows to the size where the same person who prints or embroiderers the goods is not the same person who gathered the items to decorate, the pick list becomes indispensable.

pick1.bmp (207534 bytes)Use: There are two ways a pick list can be used, but once a method is chosen, that is the method the shop should continue to use. The first way a pick list can be used is to transfer all the blank goods information from the order form to the pick list and give it to the person who will retrieve the garments. That person (the picker) locates the garments for the order, boxing them together to be held for the decorator to retrieve later, and crossing them off as he or she goes. Any shortages are reported to the purchasing department to either order or allocate from orders in transit. When all the garments are accounted for, the order goes on to the printer or embroiderer.

pick2.bmp (171106 bytes)In the second way a pick list can be used, a copy of the order and a pick list are issued to the person who will retrieve the garments. That person transfers the information from the order to the pick list as she retrieves the garments, denoting the quantity that was boxed for the decorator, and the total short. Like the first method, the "picker" turns in the pick list, denoting shortages. When new stock arrives, the picker is given the old pick list and a new pick list, the new arrivals are added to the box or boxes held for the order, and the new picklist form becomes an updated version. The process repeats until all garments are held and boxed for decorating.

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