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Hey guys! This is sort of a specific technical question concerning the autofill lists you can print out before pulling and hand out to backroom team members.
I'm not sure if every store does this, but at my store, the backroom team lead pulls up the DC executive overview in Workload Planning Tools to input the number of backroom team members pulling the morning autofill everyday. When the autofill data finishes compiling itself, she types in the number of backroom tm's and updates a graph on estimated pull and backstock time. When it's done this way, the autofill batches get grouped for each backroom tm by pull time, and each list is listed under the Autofill Overview in WPT. For example, if the system estimates 5 hours of autofill and there are 5 backroom tm's pulling, the system will create a list for each tm that has an estimated 1 hour of pull time.
Now the way the system divides the batches seems to be pretty random, taking each backroom tm to almost every section of the backroom to pull a seemingly random list of batches. This is understandable, since the system doesn't know the setup of every store's backroom to create effective lists. In a way, the system tries to make it fair for the backroom tm's by grouping the batches evenly by pull time.
My main question: what is the algorithm the system uses to divide the autofill batches into these lists?
How basic or complicated is this algorithm? What type of logic is followed for this algorithm? Is there a way to tweak this algorithm? Does your store divide the autofill batches into lists?
I'm not sure if every store does this, but at my store, the backroom team lead pulls up the DC executive overview in Workload Planning Tools to input the number of backroom team members pulling the morning autofill everyday. When the autofill data finishes compiling itself, she types in the number of backroom tm's and updates a graph on estimated pull and backstock time. When it's done this way, the autofill batches get grouped for each backroom tm by pull time, and each list is listed under the Autofill Overview in WPT. For example, if the system estimates 5 hours of autofill and there are 5 backroom tm's pulling, the system will create a list for each tm that has an estimated 1 hour of pull time.
Now the way the system divides the batches seems to be pretty random, taking each backroom tm to almost every section of the backroom to pull a seemingly random list of batches. This is understandable, since the system doesn't know the setup of every store's backroom to create effective lists. In a way, the system tries to make it fair for the backroom tm's by grouping the batches evenly by pull time.
My main question: what is the algorithm the system uses to divide the autofill batches into these lists?
How basic or complicated is this algorithm? What type of logic is followed for this algorithm? Is there a way to tweak this algorithm? Does your store divide the autofill batches into lists?