Hey all, I work at a distribution center in outbound, and have been for almost a year now. My question is in regards to when you guys are unloading PIPO off the truck and into your store.
Now, if you have never seen or been in a distribution center, there is a big conveyor the stretches about a football field from where items drop to the end (where we pick them off and toss them in the truck). The conveyor extends and contracts as needed for room as we are building walls. There are times at night when the flow of good picks up, and we can easily incorporate the PIPO accordingly to the store preferred side.
There is about room for 4-5 pallets next to each other when staged in our lanes (which means they are dropped off and ready to put in. Some stores are obviously slower than others, and all stores get different amount of goods at a time. So, there have been nights where my slower stores are not getting a lot of boxes, but about 7 pallets of double stacked PIPO is dropped off in about an hour. I have no time to put one pallet it, and take the time to build completely around it. In situations like this, I will load side by side. Especially with paper tower.
Is it REALLY this big of an ordeal when PIPO is not on the store preferred side? Especially when it is paper towel, and the pallets can be broken down to unload.
Now, if you have never seen or been in a distribution center, there is a big conveyor the stretches about a football field from where items drop to the end (where we pick them off and toss them in the truck). The conveyor extends and contracts as needed for room as we are building walls. There are times at night when the flow of good picks up, and we can easily incorporate the PIPO accordingly to the store preferred side.
There is about room for 4-5 pallets next to each other when staged in our lanes (which means they are dropped off and ready to put in. Some stores are obviously slower than others, and all stores get different amount of goods at a time. So, there have been nights where my slower stores are not getting a lot of boxes, but about 7 pallets of double stacked PIPO is dropped off in about an hour. I have no time to put one pallet it, and take the time to build completely around it. In situations like this, I will load side by side. Especially with paper tower.
Is it REALLY this big of an ordeal when PIPO is not on the store preferred side? Especially when it is paper towel, and the pallets can be broken down to unload.