Pretoria
Kids age-band labels for a January catalogue drop.
Kids age-band labels for a January catalogue drop. The team kept the shortlist tight and wrote pack notes before creative sprawled.
Work sat in Pretoria, with Rosebank available for a second review when compliance or MOQ questions got sticky.
This drop centred on kids age-band labels for a January push in Pretoria. School-facing ranges needed neat grouping before artwork started, because parent shoppers scan by age first and size second. Backup printouts mattered when load-shedding hit during image selection or carton prep.
The supplier list was trimmed early, then each shortlisted item got pack notes before design spread into too many versions. Pretoria handling requirements sat next to MOQ and compliance queries, with Rosebank available when a second review was needed. That order kept catalogue decisions tied to stock reality.
Gauteng storage assumptions were written into the working notes from the start. Dry-store conditions in Pretoria do not match coastal stock rooms, so outer packing, labels, and presentation checks were set for inland handling instead of generic national wording.
Buyer-facing updates stayed close to fulfilment detail so listing language did not drift away from warehouse practice. Where a question moved beyond the page draft, the contact form remained on the escalation route for weekday ownership of exceptions and corrections.
Signing off the shortlist before the design pass stopped the January range from ballooning. On school-linked work, every extra option tends to create another label rule, another image request, and another stock query.
Local notes for Pretoria mattered more than generic national copy. Couriers and buyers both live somewhere specific.
Printed checklists earned their place on this job. When power cuts interrupted a photo window or packing session, the team could still verify age bands, carton notes, and supplier comments without waiting on a shared drive.
Quick follow-ups within 48 hours gave buyers a live stock picture while January planning was still open. Leave it too long and school-list decisions move to another supplier or get parked until the next buying cycle.
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Power cuts interrupted at least one photo or pack window on most briefs like this. Offline checklists kept people moving.
Coastal humidity and Gauteng dry stores needed different pack lines even when the SKU list looked identical on a spreadsheet.
Takealot-class expectations around weight honesty showed up in buyer emails whether the channel was marketplace or wholesale.
We kept our contact form on the escalation path so weekend surprises had a weekday owner.
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