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E-commerce vocabulary · Shipping and Fulfillment

Pick and pack

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, pick and pack means: The warehouse process of collecting the ordered items from the shelves and packing them into a box with the right label and documents.

In Turkish: toplama ve paketleme, sipariş hazırlama

How it is used

Used by warehouse and 3PL teams, and in price lists, where pick and pack is often charged per order or per item. Picking errors lead to wrong items being sent, so teams track pick accuracy.

Example sentences

  1. Our 3PL charges a pick and pack fee for each order, plus a small fee per extra item.

  2. During the sale, pick and pack took twice as long because of the gift wrapping.

Common collocations

  • pick and pack fee
  • pick and pack process
  • picking errors
  • pick accuracy
  • fulfillmentAll the work needed to get an order to the customer after it is placed: storing stock, picking and packing the items and handing the parcel to a carrier.
  • warehouseA large building where a business stores its products and where orders are picked, packed and prepared for shipping.
  • 3PLShort for third-party logistics: an outside company that stores a seller's stock and picks, packs and ships its orders for a fee.
  • shipping labelA printed sticker on a parcel showing the sender, the delivery address, a barcode and the tracking number the carrier needs.

More terms: Shipping and Fulfillment

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