I'm in that boat too. Once we started making sure all the counts on hot wheels were good and everything was on the floor, we would consistently sell a box by the next truck and receive another box. Trying to micromanage the supply and sticking it to the collectors coming in was just more hassle...
I used to use audit to backstock pallets of casepacks in a third of the time by prepping all the boxes onto empty shelves and then auditing them all in. Sad to see such a time-saving practice lost due to some shady nonsense done by other people
I had this, except it was only 2 and #2 and #3 were the same person, aka me. I liked it honestly
Also meant that on the alternating weekend, I did inbound. My STL would joke with the ETLs that it was Mavdog's store, they just worked here lol
I always appreciated one for ones because it kept your backroom as empty as possible, and if you were the one pulling the same pulls every day, you could see what was selling consistently and maybe grab all of them for a sidecap or something.
Were those appointments not scheduled ahead of time though? I struggle to see how he would have missed so many in one week. Every time at the stores I've worked at someone had something like that come up, leadership has been more than willing to work with them IF they got with them ahead of...
I always liked OFO better because the time you would have spent pulling something forward at the end of the night zoning is just replaced with filling the empty spot instead. Same result but less work on the long run.
So, at the beginning of modernization, I thought it was a thing in their core roles that HR took over all scheduling for the store. I thought this was true and still true, but I've heard a lot of examples lately of the individual leaders owning their own parts to the schedule (my own ETL took...
I ran my team in non-essentials exactly like this. I believed that the first line of defense when something was too much for a DBO was myself as the leader, and I kept everyone else in their own areas while I was the one assessing what was going on in the area with the TM. I ended up being...
Something that has helped me in the past is pretying things as early as possible. Even before the Monday two weeks before. I've seen that things tend to drop in the Friday before that at the latest. It helps catch some of the weird transition freight flow that ends up being three weeks early...
Especially for mispicks in repacks that don't have their carton label. I used to have slime in toys come in repacks every three days that was supposed to be Dragon Scales ( listed on the truck manifest) but it was Mystic Mermaid in real life
I remember at one of the remodeled stores in my ar a that the specialty sales ETL directly oversaw Hearth and Hand. Maybe this is just a weird extension of that.
This wouldn't make sense at my store. We have one specialty sales TL who's direct boss is the store director. I will say though...
The one I have found to be most helpful is named "All Items Scanned Report (TM List)". It isn't in any of the default searches and you have to get there via card search