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SFC and SFQ are a checks and balances. Heaven forbid something somewhere in the process breaks down (a mispick, a box sent to a wrong store, a TM doesn't stock dual locations, a casepack gets lost below the line for a week, a barcode for the red deer in this ornament assortment isn't tied to the...

The larger size display box fixtures from Hearth & Hand fit the vinyls perfectly. We grabbed two of those, put location labels on them for the tech stockroom, moved shelves to accommodate them, and it allowed us the ability to just rifle through them in an easy way

I'm in that boat too. Once we started making sure all the counts on hot wheels were good and everything was on the floor, we would consistently sell a box by the next truck and receive another box. Trying to micromanage the supply and sticking it to the collectors coming in was just more hassle...

I used to use audit to backstock pallets of casepacks in a third of the time by prepping all the boxes onto empty shelves and then auditing them all in. Sad to see such a time-saving practice lost due to some shady nonsense done by other people

I had this, except it was only 2 and #2 and #3 were the same person, aka me. I liked it honestly Also meant that on the alternating weekend, I did inbound. My STL would joke with the ETLs that it was Mavdog's store, they just worked here lol

I always appreciated one for ones because it kept your backroom as empty as possible, and if you were the one pulling the same pulls every day, you could see what was selling consistently and maybe grab all of them for a sidecap or something.

Were those appointments not scheduled ahead of time though? I struggle to see how he would have missed so many in one week. Every time at the stores I've worked at someone had something like that come up, leadership has been more than willing to work with them IF they got with them ahead of...

That puts a lot of faith in inventory and logistical accuracy

I don't understand how that would work. Does it make them all zero? Or make them all at capacity?

If not this then at least metal recycle them...

I always liked OFO better because the time you would have spent pulling something forward at the end of the night zoning is just replaced with filling the empty spot instead. Same result but less work on the long run.

Just getting everyone used to the feeling right from the start

So, at the beginning of modernization, I thought it was a thing in their core roles that HR took over all scheduling for the store. I thought this was true and still true, but I've heard a lot of examples lately of the individual leaders owning their own parts to the schedule (my own ETL took...

I ran my team in non-essentials exactly like this. I believed that the first line of defense when something was too much for a DBO was myself as the leader, and I kept everyone else in their own areas while I was the one assessing what was going on in the area with the TM. I ended up being...

Something that has helped me in the past is pretying things as early as possible. Even before the Monday two weeks before. I've seen that things tend to drop in the Friday before that at the latest. It helps catch some of the weird transition freight flow that ends up being three weeks early...