Archived Brand TM-Jewelry

[BullseyeBabe]

I'm taking over Jewelry. We have a boat and a vender that does everything but the spinners. There is at least 2-3 months of jewelry in boxes stuffed under the boat. The drawers are stuffed full of fixtures and we have tons of those divider trays that no one seems to know how to use. I don't even know where to start. I'd appreciate hearing how other stores manage their jewelry. Also, I pretty much always close, (with occasional mid shifts) so finding time to work on jewelry will be tricky. Thanks in advance!

 

[unknown]

No one manages the jewelry at my store. When we did the recent reset, we had a lengthy discussion about whether or not to put up tags. No one organizes it between sets, and it never gets researched. I never see anyone but the vendor ever merchandise it. The most that ever gets done is when the POG team resets it.

 

[ClearanceMaster]

You shouldn't need a ton of extra fixtures so I would see about throwing half of them away.

We only use the gray dividers for the pink box jewelry. Honestly, you shouldn't have that much backstock if your vendor is doing stuff right. All backstock is kept in the box it originally came in so as to keep the same styles together and are placed in the locked cabinets under the jewelry wall.

Basically you need to go behind your vendor and see what stuff can fit out. If it's alot, tell your softlines TL to have them call the vendor and let them know it's unacceptable.

You are responsible for putting out the jewelry weekly that comes in for the spinners though. My brand TM pushes the spinners to Planogram and does research on the jewelry as well.

 

[jenna]

I'd start by making sure the spinners are zoned, and labeled correctly to POG specifications. Once that is complete, tackle your boxes of jewelry one by one. Are they full of Vendor product? watches? or product for the spinners?

Our jewelry vendor is great. She keeps her area brand. Softlines has a hard time maintaining the zone & keeping up with the freight coming in through receiving.

 

[unknown]

Wait ... What's a brand team member? Oh, you must mean the position we get 0 hours for.

 

[BullseyeBabe]

Wait ... What's a brand team member? Oh, you must mean the position we get 0 hours for.

Hours? What are hours? lol
Our vendor is great! All those boxes stuffed everywhere are for the spinners. No one has loved our jewelry for a very long time.

 

[BullseyeBabe]

I'd start by making sure the spinners are zoned, and labeled correctly to POG specifications. Once that is complete, tackle your boxes of jewelry one by one. Are they full of Vendor product? watches? or product for the spinners?
Good advice! Thanks!

 

[Bosch]

I would scan through it and see what might be clearance/salvage if boxes have been sitting you might clear some out that way. Knock down the pile.

 

[BullseyeBabe]

Thanks! Now I just need to find some time to work on it.

 

[jenna]

Just take it one spinner at a time & one POG at a time. Then one box at a time.

Hopefully, the POG team is putting the labels up correctly. That will save a bunch of time.

When I am zoning a complete mess, I take everything down, and put it back up. You could make an empty shoe box to sort the product for each spinner, and sort the mis-stocked stuff that way if it is truly a mess - as you are going through and zoning - one section of a spinner at a time.

Hopefully people are placing similar items together - and not just cramming things on any and every spinner.

Good luck.

 

[squirrely]

Our softlines closers used to push the jewelry, but with lack of hours/people, flow has been doing it. We don't have a ton of backstock and we have a few of the gray dividers with small sticky labels for each item on the spinners.

 

[sher]

I think now that brand TMs are officially back (we've always had them, but at some point the position didn't officially exist) I think you're supposed to be scheduled under VM sometimes to get time in your area. Our jewelry TM has just been doing it during her sl shifts but she's been doing jewelry for a bajillion years so it's not usually a ton of work. And if it is a lot of work, she doesn't make it look like it is haha. We'd be sol if she went away.

 

[ClearanceMaster]

I'm glad your vendor is awesome because mine is a trainwreck. At least she gets all her jewelry up.. but then she comes screaming at me like "this should already be clearanceeeeeee what do you want me to do with it. Umm you see that little wall right there with the clearance merchandised on it? Merchandise your discontinued stuff right there. Don't backstock it. I seriously tell her this every week. Lol.

If all of the boxes are spinners then you're going to have to take it one box at a time. When you're closing devote 80% of your shift to zone and abandons and whatever they want done. Then pop over to jewelry and push a box. Or zone a spinner 100% and find the jewelry to push there. Believe it or not jewelry, even though you're given no time to do it, is your responsibility now and if somethings wrong it's going to fall on you. So be careful.

 

[redeye58]

As Jenna said, take it a spinner/box at a time.
Once you get it organized, it's much easier to maintain.
When we ran short of the gray trays, we took shoe boxes & labeled them for each section. Great for holding the larger pieces (necklaces & chokers).

 

[BullseyeBabe]

Thank goodness for TBR! You guys rock!

 

[sher]

We'd be sol if she went away.

Lol. She's gone now. Transferred to a store faraway that doesn't have as many hours and has her cashiering, apparently. She maintained jewelry, and intimates/activewear.

 

[glo]

Jewelry brand tm? I'm out here without a cosmetics brand tm... How the hell are you guys able to afford a jewelry brand team member?

 

[sher]

Maybe dif volume stores, but mine wasn't officially a brand tm. She was a specialist in the past, when they took away the position, she continued doing the job. My store never did actually bring back the jewelry brand specialist thing when brand TMs became a real thing again, but she kept doing the work when she had the hours to. I've seen the vml doing jewelry so I assume she's doing it now that the other woman is gone

 

[SFSFun]

I want a shoes brand TM before a jewelry brand TM.