Hi everyone!
Just was wondering what some of your instocks days were like. I have a training day coming soon, so to be honest I don't even know what they do! I just know I pull their batches sometimes.
What days do you guys do what?
And I know a big part of instocks is getting the out of stock score down. How do you guys go about doing that?
Any tips would be great!
Every store probably does instocks differently; not sure if everyone's switched over to the newer process. Instocks' schedule at my store is something like this:
Saturday and Sunday: Scan all non-dotted outs in the store. More often I'm filling back endcaps or helping finish ad setup though.
Mondays: Filling checklanes, endcaps and sidecaps. Putting up the labels for PTM and dropping PTM batches to be pushed later.
Tuesdays: Scan all outs, dotted or not on the task list for hardlines (minus grocery)
Wednesdays: Same as above, but for grocery and softlines. Also somebody comes in two hours early to push PTMs.
Thursdays: Filling checklanes, endcaps and sidecaps.
Fridays: Scanning all outs in the top and bottom departments that week. Various other tasks.
ANd of course the RIGs on all those days. Drastic counts report when we get the time.
Your main way of improving instocks' scores (from the guest's side) is actually less about making sure counts are accurate and more about the shelves looking full. At least that's what I've gathered from when our store somehow scores high in the district for instocks despite it feeling like a mess most weeks.
How smoothly your job will be depends on quality of the zone, size of the task list, how many people you have and how on board the rest of the store is regarding things like proper flexing. Or making sure all transition product is pushed; nothing like finding out those pillows that keep popping up on the count report? Sitting on a pallet of home decor transition from a reset, oh, two or more weeks ago? Just do what you can, try for accuracy first; speed comes later if you do this enough.