Try getting your QMOS down to a routine and have one central location for collecting instead of bins all over the place. A couple tips that I've used that has helped me:
- Morning cull is the biggest of the day, and it includes the SF SDA. Sometimes I have an overflowing bin; sometimes I barely fill the bottom. Behind that, QMOS is usually easy as long as you keep up with it.
- keeping up with it is vital, I've found. I rarely toss things in the bin; I prefer to QMOS straight to the trash after a pull. It only takes a few second plus it helps keep the CAFs even instead of having huge pulls after a mass QMOS.
- have just one location for QMOS. We have the white bin in the ambient room and that's it. Backroom had a defectives cart for dry and such that goes to receiving, but they have to take pFresh QMOS right back to the bin when they find it. You don't have time to visit multiple locations and find stuff that BR was too lazy to bring you when you actually had time to do it.
- train your team. I've finally drilled into flow that damaged product from the truck goes into my bin (and not a random cart) and messy/leaky stuff goes in the sink. Also, they know that non-pFresh stuff goes to receiving and not to me. I'll get the occasional dry item from an SDA pull, but for the most part they don't bring me stuff not found in coolers. That cuts down on the amount I have to process.
- lastly, evaluate your QMOS rates. Are you tossing more than you should? Do you need to look at your ordering trends and see if you need to order more cautiously? We used to QMOS a crap ton of dated product (back when we ordered salads and meat) but with that being HQ ordered as well as being more careful with our order, we've been able to cut our QMOS way down. Obviously it's not perfect, but the better handle you have on your inventory, the less product will spoil before it sells.
Hope this helps.
