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.
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.
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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