Apparel fulfillment is variant management plus returns management. One style in eight sizes and five colors is forty SKUs that all look similar in a bin, and up to a third of them come back. Fulfillment EZ handles both sides under barcode control with same-day return processing.
- Size and color variant control with scan verification
- Poly bagging, folding and presentation standards
- Same-day return inspection, grading and restock
- Seasonal drop and pre-order batch releases
Variants, returns and seasonality
Apparel catalogs multiply fast. Each style-size-color combination is a distinct SKU with its own count, and picking a medium instead of a large is the most common fulfillment error in the category — and the most likely to trigger a return.
Returns then double the workload. A 20 to 30 percent return rate means every hundred orders creates twenty-five inbound units that need inspecting, grading and restocking quickly, because unsold seasonal inventory loses value week by week.
- High SKU counts from style-size-color combinations
- Return rates of 20-30% in many categories
- Seasonal drops that must ship on a date
- Presentation standards for premium brands
How we fulfill apparel brands
Every pick is scan-verified at variant level and sizes are slotted so adjacent bins are not sequential, which removes the most common source of size errors. Garments are folded, poly bagged and packed to your presentation spec.
Returns are inspected and graded the day they arrive, with sellable units restocked immediately so they can sell again inside the same season. Return reasons are coded by SKU and variant, which usually reveals a fixable sizing or photography problem.
- Variant-level scan verification on every pick
- Anti-error slotting for size runs
- Same-day return inspection and restock
- Return-reason analytics by style and variant
Drops, pre-orders and wholesale
Timed drops require inventory staged and picked the moment a sale opens, with waves released continuously so the thousandth order does not wait behind a printer queue. Pre-orders are held and released as a batch when stock lands.
Wholesale and retail orders ship from the same inventory with routing guide compliance, so a boutique order and a DTC parcel do not require two providers.