Sounds like my store.As long as there is zero investment placed in actually screening and interviewing for qualified hires, rather than just giving jobs away to everyone that applies, we will continue to see constant turnover and forced overtime. Especially since they know they aren’t required to come to work to get the sign on bonus, many of our new hires call in or go home sick more than they actually work, yet somehow they still have jobs.
Yup. We have doubled our work force and are struggling to do plans with OT that we used to be able to do with half the team, no OT, with ease.There 8 other distribution centers in my area begging for workers.
At this point OMs dont care about individual prod as much as team prod it seems. As long as people show up and do something their job is secure.Yup. We have doubled our work force and are struggling to do plans with OT that we used to be able to do with half the team, no OT, with ease.
Some of our new hires are still incapable of running at 100% 8 weeks in.
And honestly its not their fault. You could have told just by looking at them such a physical job like OB wasn't going to be a great fit.
Corporate taking over hiring is strangling us.
You are 100% right.At this point OMs dont care about individual prod as much as team prod it seems. As long as people show up and do something their job is secure.
You are 100% right.
We are shoveling money in the oven to take care of the problem because nobody wants to tackle it head on.
Probably because we are so close to getting all this Amazon style automation rolled out and they know its going to be an entirely different beast after that so why even bother with the issues we have now?
yes, details, please.You are 100% right.
We are shoveling money in the oven to take care of the problem because nobody wants to tackle it head on.
Probably because we are so close to getting all this Amazon style automation rolled out and they know its going to be an entirely different beast after that so why even bother with the issues we have now?
Unfortunately with auto rebin and rss, it requires more workers.they aren’t gonna have a choice since they can’t find enough workers, and those that they do manage to find seem to stick around less than a year.
There's 5 miniload buildings currently. They stopped making more miniload buildings when roverpick came out. I believe one building is currently using it.ehj, they've been talking about automation since i started many years ago, most of it never comes to pass. at one time we were going to talk into mics rather than pick ca with telzons for example. that quietly died out when evidently the protyping didnt go well, and they were so happy to tell us it was coming too, but not a word when it went by the wayside. they'd also been talking about doing away with mbp ca in favor of something called mini load some years ago, also dont know what happened to that.
not to say it cant happen but the initial costs of automation are extreme. i felt like it would be better suited for new buildings coming in.
The Jersey DC had it successfully implanted this past year. The Oconomowoc DC is under remodel for it now. I can't say too much about the specifics because we haven't been told much. And what little we were told I have forgotten lol. Would need somebody who works at one of those two to comment.Wow, what will that look like?
How long have they been working on that?
How will that be different from what it is now?
I've always been curious about what goes on in a DC...
RSS or autorebin?The Jersey DC had it successfully implanted this past year. The Oconomowoc DC is under remodel for it now. I can't say too much about the specifics because we haven't been told much. And what little we were told I have forgotten lol. Would need somebody who works at one of those two to comment.
But I would suspect it gets all stores closer to how we do small format stores which means the always promised palletization of product pre sorted by aisles.
That is what the new breakpack system was designed to do after all.
I'm not going to pretend i actually know what those mean. I am in outbound.RSS or autorebin?
That’s auto-rebin, there are 6 or so DCs that have that I believe, possibly more.I'm not going to pretend i actually know what those mean. I am in outbound.
All I know is that ~2 years ago our MLP had a large changeover to the new process, and they had a corporate manager come and oversee the new process to ensure everything was going smoothly (my understanding is at that point it was not).
And that the point was to make it so every overpack was sorted by aisle, not zone.
So instead of throwing everything zone 3 together, you only had bed sheets in one, only had towels in the other, etc.
Yeah then RSS sounds like what they have been implementing in Jersey and Oconomowoc.That’s auto-rebin, there are 6 or so DCs that have that I believe, possibly more.
RSS does basically the same thing but with conveyable cartons. It replaces the current sorter system.
Yeah then RSS sounds like what they have been implementing in Jersey and Oconomowoc.
Do you have any more info about that process?
Yeah same.Everything I’ve heard has been pretty vague. Just know what it’s supposed to do, very little about how it woks.
If it works like auto rebin does, then all dc’s are in trouble. Question for anyone in the know, has any building that has auto rebin actually been able to get rid of legacy packing? Or has anyone gone past about a 50% split?Yeah same.
My DC seems to always get what Oconomowoc gets afterwards, so I anticipate we will be switching to the RSS as well in the next few years.