Recent content by Dekaf

After 4 years my last day will be March 10th. Target was my first job, I started my freshman year of college as a seasonal team member. I've worked in every workcenter minus guest service, cart attendant, food ave, and softlines. A year in, I interviewed for the TL bench and waited for half a...

Is your store scan or push all and do you know what your average truck size is? Your schedules are pretty similar to mine.

Ahh that makes much more sense then. My store is entirely backroom based to I'm looking for stores similar to that, thank you though!

So on truck days you're still only scheduling 2 TM's for a total of 15 hours? Are you scan or push all?

With the new push to shift hours from logistics to salesfloor/instocks my Backroom schedules have been cut pretty drastically. So I had a few questions for the other backroom/logistics leaders out there. -How many hours do you schedule Backroom per truck day? (Assume it's 1 truck, 6am unload)...

Anyone else from a B/C volume store have a plan for the shift in backroom/flow hours? Curious to see what other stores are getting for Backroom and then allocating towards instocks.

One of my Sr.TL's is on the ETL bench (signed off on and passed interviews in our district) but she is considering moving to a different state. She saw an ETL opening in the town she is moving to and was curious if she can move directly in to the position if the store approves? My ETL-HR is out...

communication was sent out at the dtl level that the Autofill system is being adjusted tonight. Official word is to expect Autofills 15hrs+ larger then usual, it is required to pull-push-backstock everything that triggers. Anything not pulled will roll into the next batch, it is projected to...

If it was one my employees I would have addressed it directly, I don't believe in having others do coachings for me and I'd rather find the root of the problem instead of escalating a situation. I was a TM once, I know life can be stressful and inconsistent hours are just one of many things a TM...

I had a fellow TL approach me today asking how to address a situation in which their TM is taking additional "smoking" breaks on days the TL isn't working. They take these breaks on top of their 15's and lunch. I've never had a similar situation in my own work center so I wasn't able to offer...

What does your store do with decode books? I've had a massive amount build up over the last 6 weeks in my electronics lock up. I've gone the standard route of pulling a set amount during 12 steps and having my team flex them out, but it's barely made a dent lol. Any suggestions?

I agree with the statements rocklobster said about letting the system work for itself and the reasoning behind reduced batch sizes. Yet I also was worried about product building up in my Backroom. Currently we're running manual cafs every hour on non-truck days to empty out the Backroom and then...

Yes it will. Again depends on volume but the Backroom TL should be involved in the rollout as they have a good understanding of the average workload per truck. 5 hours or more per truck is a safe estimate. A new Autofill and caf process will be rolling out next week.

Process ownership depends on the volume, but it should be the ETL food or consumables TL if your volume is large enough, otherwise it will be salesfloor ETL and salesfloor TL with added PA's to account for the org chart. The logistics ETL should not own the process, I've heard plenty of horror...

Once your store begins the grocery pilot all bowling stops for grocery. There is not a set time frame for completing the dry grocery push, it is now considered an all day process to ensure team members are on the floor interacting guests, zoning, checking dates, researching, etc.