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Field notes for furniture importers.
Packing lists, containers, multi-box items and customers who won’t wait: what we learn from stores that import their own furniture.
Container Day Checklist: 12 Checks Before a Missing Box Becomes an Angry Customer
The container is at your door and the clock is running. Use these 12 checks before, during and after unloading to catch shortages and damage while you can still do something about them.
SellingHow to Sell Furniture Before the Container Arrives (Without Overselling a Single Sofa)
Your best sellers are on the water for weeks. Here is how to sell incoming furniture with confidence, give honest delivery dates and never promise the same piece twice.
Packing listsStop Retyping Packing Lists: Turn a Furniture Container Into Inventory in Minutes
Twenty pages, seventy lines, every box numbered 1/3, 2/3, 3/3. Here is why retyping a factory packing list goes wrong, and a faster way to turn it into inventory you can sell from.
InventoryThe 3-Box Sofa Problem: Why Furniture Inventory Breaks Normal Stock Software
A sofa you can sell is three cartons that have to be in the same place at the same time. Most inventory software counts products, not boxes. Here is how to track multi-package furniture properly.
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