I don't get how SFQ works.
My boss said you can't locu and purge anymore. Why?
My boss said every location has a capacity and quantity for that location. So does that mean 'on the floor' means all total counts on the floor? Can I still pull something from home to fill an endcap or do I have to change the quantity of the endcap when I do that?
How the FCK does something have 0 on the foor, 0 in the back, but 10 onhands?
Help!
Your boss either doesn't understand SFQ completely or doesn't want to explain it to you completely.
Your store now has three different values for tracking inventory replenishment. On Hands, Sales Floor Quantity, and Backroom Quantity. On Hands is the total number of eaches you should have in your store. This is the most important number as it determines replenishment from the distribution center and financials. Sales Floor Quantity is how many eaches the system thinks are currently on the sales floor. This number replaced the old sales floor accumulator and determines in-store replenishment only (not what is shipped to you). Backroom Quantity determines how many eaches are in the backroom and whether in-store replenishment is possible. This number is more important now than in the past, as Target FINALLY started using this number to calculate on-hands for research and count adjustments.
Every location has a capacity and a quantity, but the computer only cares about the total quantity. If you have two shelves with a capacity of 12 each and there are 6 on each shelf, you could say there are 12 on one shelf and 0 on the other without messing anything up.
One of the greatest changes for backroom with SFQ & Capacity is that STO no longer lowers the sales floor quantity /accumulator. This means you can backstock product without fear of it pulling again immediately (unless its been sitting off location for days). When you PULL or SUBT an item from the backroom, it increases the SFQ. LOCU does not adjust the SFQ. If you ever need to relocate an item in the backroom, you want to LOCU it from the first location and LOCU or STO it into the second location. If you SUBT it from the first location and STO it in a new one, you will have increased the SFQ by however many you SUBT'd and likely have messed up replenishment.
You can totally LOCU product to purge and fill the sales floor, but only if you have a MyDevice. If you LOCU product and fill it on the sales floor, you need to scan the location you just filled and click "Manage Inventory" to increase the Sales Floor Quantity to however many you have filled. You can then backstock the rest without worrying about it pulling again.
SFQ determines in store replenishment only. If you LOCU something and fill it without adjusting the quantity, all you're doing is creating more work. You aren't going to break anything, it's just going to come back as backstock. This should only happen once, assuming you pulled enough to increase the SFQ close enough to the capacity to satisfy the autofill triggers.
If there's a lot of confusion on SFQ & Capacity, I'll try and type up a guide and post it later this week.
EDIT:
How the FCK does something have 0 on the floor, 0 in the back, but 10 onhands?
It was either a mispick, theft, bad zone, or BRLA error that made the product vanish from its sales floor locations and then Instocks zeroed out the count. SFQ updates in real-time, meaning as soon as they scan it to 0 it changes to 0. On Hands update once or twice a day after passing through some count adjustment filters.