Archived Plano responsibilities

[PlanoFinn]

I'm so envious of the organization your store has for transition. They don't sort out ours at all and sometimes they don't even tell us there is transition until a week later and they are like "you guys gonna finish that?!"

Oh how I love when the opening LOD actually walks the backroom/receiving because the DTL is coming in and suddenly they find "pallets" of missed stagged that was buried behind pallets of unfinished truck or better yet hidden in the extra trailer on the dock. And it planos fault for not knowing where product that is missing is located lol

OMG that sounds horrible. All of my transition boxes are palletized by aisle or at least aisles next to each other. Like Domestics they will stage 2 or 3 aisles on the same pallet but everything is labeled with a sign what they are. They also separate all repack merchandise and write the aisle on the repack. It's really helpful. Not a lot comes out of the backroom and everything is organized for us to pull out and push. We palletize all transition boxes to save time. Backroom doesn't have to backstock it all and then pull it when we set. Its easier for everyone.

My store has a very Brocken logistics process and our Flow TL (4th one in a year ) quit. This week since Plano workload is light I'm being "Global" and helping with the unload process and there are so many issues I think I broke my jaw from it dropping so many times this morning.

 

[PlanoFinn]

If you mysupport the adjacency calendar they will tell you that page is wrong and that POG is responsible for pulling their own pogs. I have a br TM scheduled under pog to pull. We set, clean, do our own signing/displays, and push. Sometimes if we notice something is really off we will research or change capacities. I give all TLs a copy of my plan and they are responsible for pulling all the clearance and merchandising it.

Many Pptl aren't aware, but no matter what your signing TM is given a certain amount of hours. If your team does their own signing, compare you signing tms hours to the monthly update, whatever isn't accounted for you can that TM for.. ( obviously take account of pallets and other duties and make sure they are 100%)

I own ad and have aTM come in a few times a week to sort it. Pricing and Plano put ad up on Sunday's. My team works sun-Saturday's and I stagger days off.

How do y'all schedule for the ad ? We have a new ETL HR and she doesn't account for the ad prep hours and set/takedown so we schedule exactly what the guidelines say the hours should be but the team members doing it are placed under signing which puts me over in signing about 50-60 hours. Which wouldn't bother except Friday's when I come in after being off Thursday my schedules are all chopped up for the store posting over the dashboards.

 

[MasterofLOG]

They also only work sun-Thursday

As far as ad set goes that the price change tl job in my store he and two tms from price change will do the set up and take down

THIS!!! THIS!! x100!

I am taking your PPTL and team... Some one who gets it!

 

[MasterofLOG]

The biggest debate in my district is who pulls the pogs and where do the hours come from to do it.

I don't know why, well, ok, I do, its an hours thing... and this whole mess of hours to support the tasks of the store is just FUBAR... but... with that being said..

PULLS = BR. (Yes, see above. I get that..) still PULLS = BR.

Each team, BR, POG, IS, Flow, PC, SF, PA, etc. has their role/part to play on the team.. and things would go a damn whole lot smoother IF EACH TEAM did THEIR PART, and didn't cross over into doing other teams tasks/workloads....unless when something happens... ie: CO/VAC/NCNS for BR TM's and they don't have staff to pull POG's... then hey sure help out... but on a regular routine basis POG should not touch POG batches...

Quite honestly POG should set it and forget it, if BR doesn't pull the batches so that POG can complete it... When the STL etc. start bitching then things would change... It won't get that far here, as if the BRTL sees that POG batches are not being pulled... dead TM pulling! 🙂

From my understanding from my last store is the logistics team is to absorb them and only stage major full transitions like Halloween ect and backstock and pull the rest. And when they stage it has to be sorted. My store stages anything that says transitions and doesn't sort them by aisle or department it's a nightmare.

All TRANSITION, 100% is to be staged and sorted here. After the truck unload the bulk person is responsible for sorting any that comes in and condensing it with what already may be in LOC so that it can be pulled down when needed. Its been that way here, since I started years ago... and through several Flow TL's.. I see no reason to change this, and really since it its BR, thus its not my area anyway.

 

[MasterofLOG]

If you mysupport the adjacency calendar they will tell you that page is wrong and that POG is responsible for pulling their own pogs.

I still disagree with that, it violates the team concept. And here POG sets, BR pulls, and that is the way it should be.

I own ad and have a TM come in a few times a week to sort it. Pricing and Plano put ad up on Sunday's. My team works sun-Saturday's and I stagger days off.

This THIS! x100!

 

[PlanoFinn]

All TRANSITION, 100% is to be staged and sorted here. After the truck unload the bulk person is responsible for sorting any that comes in and condensing it with what already may be in LOC so that it can be pulled down when needed. Its been that way here, since I started years ago... and through several Flow TL's.. I see no reason to change this, and really since it its BR, thus its not my area anyway.

I could only dream of that organization in my store, my previous store does almost exactly the same routine like yours and it seems to workout. My stockroom and receiving are very small and space is at a premium. When y'all sort how much space is given for the stage, I know some transitions require less space and others like domestics take up multiple pallets.

How many team members would you say it takes to sort the transitions and what would be a good time since it seems all hands are on deck to get the truck pushed and backstock ?

We are supposed to be 6am process also but since we are still a broken process we have been allowed to stay at 4 am since the 4th quarter.

 

[RunForACallBox]

Responsibility to take down old header labels? lol. Found this gem today

 

[PlanoFinn]

Responsibility to take down old header labels? lol. Found this gem today
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Who ever set in that aisle whether a transition or revision should have removed that old pog header when they put in tbe new one up. There should never be anything extra in the plastic header sleve , only the current pog header and aisle number. I would be concerned if the team is consistently placing up their price accuracy labels during their sets if I found that old label up. In an ideal world the PTL would be able to audit most pogs that are set for accuracy however when you fall behind it can be difficult.

 

[Bosch]

Who ever set in that aisle whether a transition or revision should have removed that old pog header when they put in tbe new one up. There should never be anything extra in the plastic header sleve , only the current pog header and aisle number. I would be concerned if the team is consistently placing up their price accuracy labels during their sets if I found that old label up. In an ideal world the PTL would be able to audit most pogs that are set for accuracy however when you fall behind it can be difficult.

You want to tell that to my POG team.. They just slap the next header over the last one.. I found 2014 a couple weeks ago..

 

[PlanoFinn]

You want to tell that to my POG team.. They just slap the next header over the last one.. I found 2014 a couple weeks ago..

My team when I first took over Plano would place all the new pog headers on the basedeck of the first section of every Plano, I was like wtf ??? Sometimes I find aisles with old headers behind new ones but it is not as common anymore once I showed them what not to do .

 

[Bosch]

My team when I first took over Plano would place all the new pog headers on the basedeck of the first section of every Plano, I was like wtf ??? Sometimes I find aisles with old headers behind new ones but it is not as common anymore once I showed them what not to do .

We do base decks since there are so many isles you physically can't get to the backer board. But bloody hell take out the old ones.. I know the two that set and forget and generally act like we should pay them to just walk around and gossip..

 

[signingminion]

Oh how I love when the opening LOD actually walks the backroom/receiving because the DTL is coming in and suddenly they find "pallets" of missed stagged that was buried behind pallets of unfinished truck or better yet hidden in the extra trailer on the dock. And it planos fault for not knowing where product that is missing is located lol


My store has a very Brocken logistics process and our Flow TL (4th one in a year ) quit. This week since Plano workload is light I'm being "Global" and helping with the unload process and there are so many issues I think I broke my jaw from it dropping so many times this morning.

We've been hiding a dozen or so pallets of transition in a temp trailer. We thought it had all come out. The last pallet has there different layers of transition from the different weeks. Which means they've continued to shove stuff out there instead of pushing/ staging. They only sort Halloween/ Christmas. And usually only the first wave, if they have time. Stl and pptl walked it the other day. Lol.

 

[PlanoBitch]

In my store they do all life revisions and ad rotations. They have to demerit clean pull push and backs tock all there work. The only thing g that day side helps them with is research. We are an AA+ store with a tl and 8 tms each getting around 37 hours every week except for when workload drops. They also only work sun-Thursday

As far as ad set goes that the price change tl job in my store he and two tms from price change will do the set up and take down

So your PPTL works every Sunday morning? I am a Sr. tl so all my weekend shifts are Lod shifts and I rotate 1 weekend on 1 weekend off repeat.

 

[Joejoe12]

So your PPTL works every Sunday morning? I am a Sr. tl so all my weekend shifts are Lod shifts and I rotate 1 weekend on 1 weekend off repeat.

We are an overnight store so it's Sunday night to Thursday night

 

[PlanoBitch]

Oh how I love when the opening LOD actually walks the backroom/receiving because the DTL is coming in and suddenly they find "pallets" of missed stagged that was buried behind pallets of unfinished truck or better yet hidden in the extra trailer on the dock. And it planos fault for not knowing where product that is missing is located lol


My store has a very Brocken logistics process and our Flow TL (4th one in a year ) quit. This week since Plano workload is light I'm being "Global" and helping with the unload process and there are so many issues I think I broke my jaw from it dropping so many times this morning.

Woah. That sounds so bad. My ETL has been with target 20+ years and he knows how to run logistics. We were broken before he came to us but now we are on process. We always backstocked all transition and it was just double work for everyone so he stopped that right away.
We all are trained to do everything and we all help each other. It really runs smoothly with the way we do everything. Today we all pushed auto fills bc there was no truck and they were massive. Nobody complained and we all got our workload done even with helping out. The other day I had to switch to backroom bc almost everyone called out and I ran that area for the day even though I was supposed to be in my work center. We are really a team and we help each other out a lot. It works well for us.

 

[PlanoBitch]

We are an overnight store so it's Sunday night to Thursday night

Oh well in that case it makes sense. We are a 6am store.

 

[PlanoFinn]

Woah. That sounds so bad. My ETL has been with target 20+ years and he knows how to run logistics. We were broken before he came to us but now we are on process. We always backstocked all transition and it was just double work for everyone so he stopped that right away.
We all are trained to do everything and we all help each other. It really runs smoothly with the way we do everything. Today we all pushed auto fills bc there was no truck and they were massive. Nobody complained and we all got our workload done even with helping out. The other day I had to switch to backroom bc almost everyone called out and I ran that area for the day even though I was supposed to be in my work center. We are really a team and we help each other out a lot. It works well for us.

That's exactly how all stores should be , experts in their areas but cross trained to help out when needed. If I could get our teams to organize/sort the stage it would be amazing. How much area is used for yall's stage ? Our space is so tight in receiving.

 

[signingminion]

That's exactly how all stores should be , experts in their areas but cross trained to help out when needed. If I could get our teams to organize/sort the stage it would be amazing. How much area is used for yall's stage ? Our space is so tight in receiving.

Our br is smaller than most because we have a large ambient room/ cooler setup and opened as a pfresh. It was nice when i was in market, now not so much.

 

[PlanoBitch]

Ours is tight too but typically we can fit it all in receiving area. We normally have about 4 pallet spaces. For bigger sets like Mini or SSS we can get more room so it is all organized by aisle. Right now we have hardly anything in the top of the steel in receiving so I can have all the space I want.

 

[signingminion]

Ours is tight too but typically we can fit it all in receiving area. We normally have about 4 pallet spaces. For bigger sets like Mini or SSS we can get more room so it is all organized by aisle. Right now we have hardly anything in the top of the steel in receiving so I can have all the space I want.

We stage in any empty space. Which is such an inefficient method.

 

[PlanoFinn]

This is typically how the line looks most days after the push is "complete" Hence the nightmare with locating stage.

 

[signingminion]

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This is typically how the line looks most days after the push is "complete" Hence the nightmare with locating stage.

+1 for the actual line being empty...mine was still full of Easter candy from truck after they broke the line down today...

 

[GenericGroceries]

Your Logistics ETL allows this?

 

[PlanoBitch]

My STL would murder someone. The line not only has to be empty but swept clean as well after every truck.

 

[Meli4Target]

had that problem at my previous store, they would NEVER trap anything in the transition steel so my team & I were stuck with never ending batches, it got so bad that i told my STL what was the fucking point of me even having to pre-tie. Our line would look like this 75% of the time as well.