Mike Chong is back with a super helpful video tutorial about how he manages the mission critical task of ordering the right t-shirts and garments from wholesalers like SanMar, AlphaBroder, TSC Apparel, S&S Activewear, and more.
We'll provide you with a
"vendor cheat sheet" listing around 200 common t-shirt and garment brands combined with the wholesale distributors that sell those brands. This makes it really easy to find a new vendor when your favorite t-shirt is backordered or unavailable.
You'll also learn how Mike relies on Printavo to make sense of his orders and intake process.
This is an easy and no-cost way to start taking more profit: cut down on receiving time, reduce ordering errors, and lower your shipping costs with a better ordering process for t-shirts and garments from your wholesale vendors.
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- Create an invoice in Printavo. A unique invoice number is assigned to the job.
- Order t-shirts and garments from the right vendor. The unique invoice number for the job is put into the vendor’s purchasing system as a purchase order (PO) number.
- Order is shipped to the shop. Vendor prints PO number on box with t-shirts and garments.
- Receive and intake t-shirts and garments at the shop. The print shop’s intake department uses the PO / invoice number to look up the invoice in Printavo.
This article focuses on step 2: ordering t-shirts and garments from the vendor.We utilize statuses in Printavo to determine whether we can print our jobs. This is the simplest way I’ve found to keep track of jobs and garments at the same time. The statuses we use for tracking t-shirts and garments are:
- Not ordered
- Ordered
- Incomplete
- Received
Read more here:
https://www.printavo.com/blog/how-to-order-t-shirts-from-vendors
