Businesses often rely on logistics providers not just for transportation and warehousing but also for a range of value-added services that help streamline supply chains, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. Services like re-palletising, re-labelling, and re-wrapping all make a real difference in ensuring goods arrive in perfect condition and fully comply with retail and regulatory requirements.
Re-Palletising
Re-palletising is the process of rearranging products onto new pallets to better suit storage, transportation, or retailer requirements. This service is particularly useful for companies dealing with damaged or unstable pallet loads, shipments that need to be consolidated or split, or products that must meet specific retailer guidelines.
Benefits of re-palletising:
- Improved Load Stability: Properly stacked pallets reduce the risk of damage and make handling easier.
- Retailer Compliance: Many large retailers have strict pallet rules. Re-palletising ensures your products meet their standard, reducing delays and extra costs.
- Space Optimisation: Well-organised pallets mean more can fit in storage or on a truck, cutting down the number of trips needed and speeding up deliveries.
Re-Labelling
Re-labelling is the process of updating, replacing, or adding labels to products or packaging to ensure compliance, correct errors, or enhance branding. Third-party logistics providers (3PLs) often offer this service to help make products retail-ready and ensure they meet specific market requirements.
Benefits of re-labelling:
- Regulatory Compliance: Re-labelling ensures products meet local regulations, import/export rules, and retailer-specific labelling or tagging requirements.
- Error correction: Fixing misprints, incorrect barcodes, and outdated information before products reach customers prevents mislabelling issues and costly recalls.
- Brand consistency. Updating promotional labels and/or packaging keeps branding uniform across different markets and product lines.
Re-Wrapping
During transit, packaging can easily become torn, loose, or otherwise compromised, increasing the risk of the products themselves taking damage. Re-wrapping involves applying a new shrink wrap, stretch film, or protective covering to ensure goods remain secure, intact, and presentable.
Benefits of re-wrapping
- Product Integrity: Re-wrapping protects products from dust, moisture, and other contaminants while also adding an extra layer of defence.
- Retail Readiness: It ensures products arrive in pristine condition and allows you to customise packaging to meet specific retailer or customer requirements.
Improving Supply Chain Efficiency
Re-palletising, re-labelling, and re-wrapping help minimise the risk of goods being rejected and ensure your products reach shelves as quickly and efficiently as possible. Rather than sending products back to the manufacturer for packaging or labelling correction, we handle all these critical tasks for you. This eliminates the need to involve your team or send goods elsewhere, saving you time and reducing unnecessary transport and labour costs.
Partnering with a logistics provider that offers these services can be a game-changer. In addition to ensuring compliance and quality, value-added services like rework strengthen relationships with customers and retailers by delivering products as they should be: properly packaged, correctly labelled, and in pristine condition.
At VLT Logistics, we believe that logistics is far more than just moving goods from A to B; it’s about adding value at every step of the journey. Our rework services are just one of the ways that we drive efficiency, reduce risks, and ultimately contribute to a smoother, more reliable supply chain.
