Men’s Underwear Packaging and Multipack OEM

The pack is a specification

Private label usually includes the pack as part of the brand. OEM is the garment inside it. Wholesale can be a finished body in a pack you still have to define. Changing the artwork, the card or the count is not the same as asking whether a finished reference is available. Say which route each line uses.

The packaging guide already covers barcodes, carton marks and the longer format list. This page is the shorter OEM note, and it points at the multipack brief for the photographs.

Formats already used in buyer conversations

Printed boxes, cards and stickers are usually separate lines in a quotation. The format also changes the carton, which changes freight per piece. The landed-cost worksheet is where you compare those lines. It does not contain a duty rate or a freight rate.

A photograph of several bodies is not a multipack

The multipack brief already says this. Grey, white and black together are a visual set. Five solid colors with a sample wordmark are a visual set. Navy, orange and white are a visual set. None of those frames is a retail recipe. Write the combination you want, or say that you are copying one of those groups on purpose.

Match the cut inside the pack. Do not put a no-leg brief and a short-leg boxer brief in one pack unless you mean to. The white, black and red set on the multipack brief is a brief. The short black body is a legged style.

Garment count and pack count

A quotation can confuse garments with packs if both numbers sit on one line. State garment quantities by color and size, then state how those garments are assembled. The size-curve guide is where the split is planned. It is not a stock list.

• One size per pack, or a named size mix.
• One color per pack, or a named mix. The photographed group is not the mix until you copy it.
• Shade and color-transfer checks when light and dark garments share a pack.

How to brief the pack

1. Choose the pack: single bag, header card, box, multipack or bulk.
2. Write garment quantities by color and size, then write how those garments are assembled.
3. Say whether each pack is one size and one color, or name the mix.
4. Send barcode numbers you own and the card artwork. Do not treat a photographed group as the recipe.
5. Agree the carton marks before production.

What the pack sample approves

The first-order checklist locks the pack format before you compare quotations and leaves carton marks open until the ship window. The quality page says to compare the sample with the named artwork version, the pack count and the barcode, and to keep approval pending until a wrong item is corrected. A bulk carton or a body-only sample does not approve a retail bag or a multipack that was not in that sample.

Care text and the brand mark are different lines from the pack format. Send the destination wording your importer has already checked. The care-label guide keeps those lines apart. It does not write them, and it does not replace this pack note.

Barcodes, cartons and what this page does not set

The packaging guide already says that UPC-A is used mostly in North America and EAN-13 in most other markets, and that the numbers normally come from the brand’s own GS1 membership rather than from the factory. Give a multipack its own barcode, different from the single garment. Test-scan a printed proof before approval. Carton marks should include the purchase order and what is inside, so a warehouse can receive the goods without opening every box.

This page does not state a piece count you must buy, a price, a lead time or a certificate. Ask how a printed card or a custom bag is counted relative to the garments. The answer belongs on the quotation. Quality checks for color transfer sit on the quality page.