Oh they know. Email has been sent out to ETLs-TLs since last week. Unless you trust the word of your ETL 100%. Honestly I hope this fails horribly for them. I even hope they lose money over it.
It WAS and STILL IS A FAIL!
FAIL! We pilot'd this crap, and fail! We repeated that each conference call. I finally was kicked out of the conference calls as I would not tow the party line. Further up the chain just refuses to see that their PROJECTED (always WRONG bean counter number) savings is not going to happen! This is not going to recoup $0.5B towards the CA disaster... get over it move on!
Sorry to hear you are one of the MANY BRTM(s) to be screwed., blue'd and tatoo'd... if there is any solace, you are NOT ALONE! I look for the BR team here to dwindle... You are SPOT ON, on this IS THE GOAL!
Just like my team my rock stars are FED UP! Most have been through this "lower" hours in the first of the year. Most picked up PC, IS, or something... They still are but not to make up for the BONE REMOVING CUTS. They are cutting the bone! Not to the bone, but actual BONE!
I've done everything I can to slice, dice and sliver hours from the average and the slugs to the rock stars, I can only move the deck chairs so much....before I get the ETL wrath...and they can only be so cut throat before they are just tired out!
I already know in a few months we won't have the rock stars, and that will wipe out 100% of FDC, my core unload team and core pushers....
The average and slugs will be all thats left... This is the writing on the wall here. The caphony of grumbling here is getting deafing.. I don't blame them.. I've been there... I was just more cut throat about staying late, coming in, coming back for swaps, or CO, etc.. and that meant CLOPENS! Some with as little as 2-3 hours before a truck the next day. Or 15+ days in a row... I get it that some are not that crazed... They shouldn't have to be!
FDC or C&S Truck push, pfresh we can always use more people and I hear that we may be doing this over night as well.
They want our FDC truck to arrive by 4 AM no later, hopefully at midnight.
I and most of my team, and especially my FDC team would KILL FOR THIS! They all want to come in work, and go home! And really logistics should be 100% done over night. Store close to store open, logistics ninjas come in and BAM! SPP and POG's set! DC GM freight pushed, FDC for Super or PFresh complete. I am so close to being able to do this by the volume I can taste it.. and to come up just that short.. just kills...Whats worse is that this whole mess will KILL SALES! And it will make moving up further unlikely, and probably force us back down.
They won't lose money. The new system is geared towards pulling only outs and critical lows. It's asinine to work a pull each hour with things like one towel, 2 boxes of cake mix, 2 cans of dog food, one pack of kids' socks..... None of these are needed as the capacity is high enough as it is.
I agree, that when things get low, that should trigger fills. The onesies twosies for something that is nearly full is foolish.
The problem is that TGT systems doesn't have the FIRST CLUE about outs/critical lows, CORRECTLY as they don't have the IT systems to do it! I can scan outs in dry market and be told there are 50 cans of chili beans on the shelf! IT has ZERO!!! ZERO!! Unless this is RESEARCHED and RESEARCHED AND RESEARCHED to death it will never pull that, unless I go get the 2-3 or more cases that sit in the stockroom myself!
A certain poster here can spout how great the system and its math prowess is, I can tell you it rates a big fat FAIL! It has from day 1 when I got here, and thats years ago!
This is just going to lead to exactly what we had MORE EMPTY SHELFS, HUGE PILES of MANUALS with NO ONE to work 5 two-tier carts in dry market. ... Your choice you want a zone in dry or push manuals? Pick ONE! It just doesn't work! Period. I've been there done it, FAIL! It is pushing it to ask that a PA/Market TM do all that alone. That really should be ONE PA to do produce/dairy/meat/bakery ie: open market, and one for DRY Market. It seems that possibly some do this.
I am all for improving things... getting the TECH to WORK better, and FOR US, and not US FIGHT THE TECH that DOESN'T WORK! ie; mytoys, embedded wincrap in PDA's and POS! Your need to get things back to using the MAINFRAME itself NOT window dressing interfaces that talk to the mainframe and fail because they can't reliably communicate/interface.
In 2016 we should have a much, MUCH better use of tech in retail, regardless of what some other poster(s) think. I am glad it was rainbows and unicorns in their rose colored glasses vision of the pilot. It was not here!
