So I guess the next questions are.. :
- What volume is your store?
- How many trucks do you take per week? RDC, FDC?
- What size are those trucks?
- How many TMs do you have? In Food & Beverage?
- How many hours do you get?
- How many SF aisles do you have? How many backroom aisles?
- How many sections in those aisles?
- How involved is your leadership?
- How experienced are your TMs?
- How many devices/resources do you have? U-boats?
- How large is your unload area?
- How much steel space do you have?
- Does your store have SFS? OPU? DriveUp? Shipt?
- B volume
- 4-5 RDC, 3 FDC (pro/meat/deli/dairy/frozen every delivery. (Just mentioning this because I know some stores get only frozen on some deliveries)
-RDC ranges from 1700-2500 casepacks. Either way market gets no less than ten FULL ASS uboats and 1 flatbed. For FDC, anywhere from 700-1000 cases, I’d say average around 700.
- 8 food and bev TMs (not including me) 3 Dry TMs, 4 pfresh TMs, and 1 who mostly closes here and there. She’s only available three days a week.
- We get anywhere from 217 (lowest) to 230 hours. This is not nearly enough. The week I just wrote we were actually allocated 254 hours, but ALL of my endcaps are changing and I have 2 revisions 🤷🏻♀️. I will say it’s gotten better because the last time we had to set all of our salesplanners, we were given 229, that was a horrible week.
-SF aisles are B6-37 & 40-42, BUT 6-13 are open market, pfresh, bunkers, etc. then, 14-18 are frozen and 1 meat/cheese. 19-37 is dry. Then 40-42 (backwall:water, bev, beer, frozen, dairy)
Besides 4 coolers/freezer, we have 3 aisles of light duty shelves with 10 sections on each side.
- The only leader besides me that is involved in any way is my GM leader and she is awesome. The last few months with her has been so refreshing. Before the leadership change, I didn’t have an ETL for 6 months. It was rough. But she just expects consistent communication and for me and my team to know out shit. And we do.
- my team was solid but I just had one quit. I’ve been developing another one so we moved him to another workcenter for this reason (he was hard to give up, but I’m glad he’s moving up and learning). So now we have two newbies which has presented its own challenges. Growing pains I should say. But we will train them just as well as we trained everyone else. Same expectations. Same standards. Also performance managing one. I tried everything. She’s just not fast enough. Great attitude though and I think she’s smart. If she doesn’t want cashier, she needs to step it up or she’s gone. So will probably be hiring soon 😑
- idk how many devices we have in the store but every one of my TMs has one when they are working. Can’t do their jobs without one! Only leaders have devices designated. I give mine to my team if they need it. It’s almost never an issue. NOW, are these devices fast?
No freaking way. Can’t speak on total number of uboats in the store but for RDC unload we have 1 flat bed and 7 uboats for my food custom blocks, but we obviously have to switch them out when full. Never can we finish one before unload is done.
- our unload area is dummy small. Can’t fit a body in between uboats and it’s a bitch to switch out full uboats during unload. I hate it soooo much.
- as far as steel space, I usually keep about 7 pallet spaces of water under the bulk steel (also a bitch to deal with because it’s impossible to pull out a pallet of water without moving at least 3 uboats first.) Other than that, I’ll have a pallet of capris sun at times. Also a pallet space for stuff I bulk out before sweeping it back. It gets very challenging when it’s time for big transitions. We have the smallest Backroom in the district, by far.
- Yes we have OPU, SFS, DriveUp and Shipt
Hope this answered all your questions.