I want to know this too because we have to move to blocks because it was too hard to train newbs on aislie location.
I don't know much specifically about any of these new pilots - but I can contribute to what has been happening in my store.
A couple weeks ago our flow + CnS team completely split up, will CnS becoming their own team, coming in at their own time (flow starts at 4, CnS starts at 5/6) with their PA's and market TM's pushing all of CnS by themselves rather than pulling Flow team members - which has been working out okay, because it's lead to the rest of my team finishing the truck unload at a more reasonable time. It's also been mentioned that CnS will be taking over the rest of market too in a short period of time - but that could still be in planning and not actually be implemented for awhile. All of this is potentially a good thing for my store as our flow team has gone from - 40 people to 12-14 in the last year.
As for End-to-End pilot, the first I'd heard of it is today after the truck unload, when I was informed that my hours were getting cut by 50% and that I was no longer going to be doing Electronics. They said that our store was starting a new "end-to-end" approach where they were going to have a dayside Electronics team member come in an hour earlier to push all of what used to be my own stuff.
I realize that it's his first day doing the breakouts and electronics push, but if it takes five hours for three security repacks, a dvd repack and a handful of other boxes, I don't see this working out well for them. Especially during Christmas when they get 25 security repacks, no help, and no extra time.been one of those days for me.
I think after all of this crap time at Target will be ending again. 12-16 hours isn't enough for me to survive on, and I've had some issues with my new ETL - so maybe it's for the better.
I would love it to go away in my store. But thats because I am simply tried of dealing with the lazy, loud mouthed veteran who can get away with anything because no one wants to do receiving and she has been there 25+ years. We were down 6 people on unload one day and since she has to been involved in off load she actually had to move pallets and help off load. She actually complained she was sweating.
Having actually worked in a semi-rural one for 3 yrs, they do much of nothing other than be lazy af. Zone managers do the heavy work.
Its a concept for us lower volume stores. See we only get 3 trucks a week and they are only filled with about 2000 pieces on average. So there are days when we have no actual truck in our dock. (our GM trucks come on the same days).
You do not have 40+ TLs...
With end-to-end, everyone is responsible for shooting outs in their own areas. So whomever flexes will be the one to also do instocks in that area.
Walmart got rid of zone managers a few years ago.
I think it's more likely that the TM just saw the scanned freight on the back side of the line for the first time, and didn't know what it was from. It seems way too early for palletized freight to be coming in and it makes no sense for them to only send backstock like that. Plus, what might have been backstock when the truck was loaded could be needed on the salesfloor by the time they unload it at the store.
That's why there are no hours at my store to cover those 40+ TLs at your store.
Bullshit on the fact they have every position? That's a fact I saw it for myself.
you do realize we are the company that went into Canada with out setting up a sound and reasonable logistics system? that little mishap "cost billions" So if it sounds to stupid to be true, it just might be true.
