Being a huge transshipment hub, many businesses in Singapore break bulk and consolidate shipments. Ideally, packages that are meant to be reshipped should be prepacked according to end customer requirements. These packages should be of standard sizes to facilitate full container loads (or volumetric weight for air freight) to minimize shipping cost. It could even be bar coded for accountability and auto-sorting.
Very often though, suppliers and manufacturers are much bigger than small businesses and are very reluctant to prepack into standard cartons. One way is to transfer the cost of packing in a transshipment hub like Singapore to the supplier/manufacturer.
Even that, due to the relatively small volumes, the additional revenue to suppliers/manufacturer to prepack could still be unattractive.
This is where the use of colours to facilitate identification of product in carton can be used. This beats reading carton labels on its contents. You can also use shapes to complement colours to further refine identification of products in a carton and facilitate counting.
Small businesses could send pre-print labels of products in different colours to help themselves sort and redistribute more effectively.
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