Packaging Wholesale is for a desk that already knows what it uses. This topic is the reorder, not a tour of every range.
Write the product you have proved, place it before the shelf is empty, and let the month be the sum of those weeks. A weekly reorder list is the method.
Four lines that are not one product
Tape closes a carton. Strapping bands a bundle. Stretch wrap holds a pallet. Disposables feed a counter or a kitchen. They run out on different days and they are ordered from different categories: tapes, strapping, pallet stretch wrap and disposables. A list that says “packaging” will be picked wrong. Packing tape, strapping, pallet stretch wrap and food packaging are the buying notes. Carrier bags and refuse sacks are a further list, not a kind of tape.
Gummed paper tape is the water-activated seal and wants its dispenser. A hand tape gun is a different tool. Machine stretch film is not a hand roll. A strapping coil has to fit the tool on the bench. Food containers are not transit packaging. The weekly list names the exact line. The weekly reorder list says how to keep one-off buys off that list so they do not become next month’s mistake.
The person who sees the shelf should be able to place the list without re-deciding it. If the width of tape is still a debate every Friday, the list is not finished. Finish it on a quiet day, from a carton you have actually sealed, a pallet you have actually wrapped, and a coil you have actually run.
The week has a cutoff
Orders placed by 3pm are dispatched the same day. The terms aim for 5.30pm the next working day. A 1 to 3 day courier is also described, depending on the lines. Friday aims for Monday. A bank holiday on Friday or Monday moves the delivery. A bench that runs out on Tuesday morning needed the reorder before Tuesday, with enough reserve for the later of those descriptions. When a reorder is due is the short timing note.
UK delivery is free over £50 ex VAT. A smaller reorder still leaves. Do not add a stranger product to cross the threshold. Add the next real case of the line you are low on, or accept the delivery charge. Free delivery on a trade order says the same thing at shorter length. Stocked items can be returned within 14 days if the line was wrong. Call first. Do not use returns as the way you sample the catalogue.
BACS is available on TradePro, with card and PayPal. It does not move the cutoff. A standard checkout, without the account, is card, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Payment covers those. The account is for the desk that repeats. A one-off buyer does not need it.
The month is the rate
TradePro starts at 5% off and goes up to 10% when spend is over £1,000 a month. The terms also treat that figure as the minimum to keep the discounted pricing. If it is not met, the account can return to standard prices, and getting the rate back means applying again. The monthly trade spend is how to watch the weeks add up before the last afternoon. The trade rate on repeat orders and buying on a trade account are the rules. TradePro is where you apply. Membership is for trade businesses, at our discretion.
Count goods before VAT. Count orders you placed, not quotes. Do not buy a pallet you will not use in order to cross the line. A quiet month can be a 5% month. That is a better result than a store room of the wrong film. Four ordinary weeks of the real list are the point of the account.
Keep the list and the running total in the same place the order is placed. A warehouse that knows its tape and does not know its month will be surprised by the invoice. A buyer who knows the month and does not walk the shelf will reorder last month’s mix. The weekly reorder is both numbers, and neither one is allowed to invent products.
A list you can hand to someone else
The test of the weekly list is that another person can place it without calling you. Each line needs the product, the size or width, and the quantity that restores the shelf, not “some tape”. Packing tape is there if the width is still unclear. Once it is clear, the guide is for new starters, and the list is for Fridays. A list that only lives in one person’s head will be wrong the week they are away, and the bench will invent a substitute roll.
Review the list when something changes: a new carton board that the old tape will not hold, a machine that takes a different film, a counter that drops a food container. Do not review it because a month felt expensive. Expensive and wrong are different. If the month is over £1,000 and the goods were the goods you used, the rate is doing what it was asked. If the month is high because of a product nobody opened, take that line off and leave the rate to fall if it must.
Place the order on a day you chose, not on the day the last roll appears. The 3pm cutoff and the 1 to 3 day courier window are the reason for that habit. When a reorder is due is the timing. The list is the content. Together they are the whole trade desk on this site: the same lines, before they run out, adding up honestly across the month.
If a week is skipped because the shelf was still full, leave the list as it is and do not place an empty order to “keep the rhythm”. The rhythm is the shelf, not the calendar. A full shelf of the right tape is a success. Write the skip on the four-line month note so the spend is explained, and place the next reorder when the minimum, not the diary, says so.