MEGATHREAD End to End team PILOT

I'd like to here from these test stores hows its going. Whos been sorting , stapling and handing out all the revisions planos and salesplaners we get each week. Hows it going are the depts geting all the work done. Push. Pulling ,backing stocking revisions. Salesplaners. planos, price change. Zoning etc..its been slow for for price and presentation. Whos keeping the fixture room clean? Shouldn't be the pptl job any longer.. Lots of questions need updates
 
YourPPTL said:
I'd like to here from these test stores hows its going. Whos been sorting , stapling and handing out all the revisions planos and salesplaners we get each week. Hows it going are the depts geting all the work done. Push. Pulling ,backing stocking revisions. Salesplaners. planos, price change. Zoning etc..its been slow for for price and presentation. Whos keeping the fixture room clean? Shouldn't be the pptl job any longer.. Lots of questions need updates
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At my store, some things are happening. Communication with leaders is limited. It, my srtl mentioned that stl were not up front on changes.
Kinda scary.
 
Hardlinesmaster said:
It is all related to end to end. Salesfloor have not been told anything about the changes.
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That's because there is no salesfloor anymore. It was eaten by Flow in our store. If you were SF only, you either became a cashier (if you were new) or e2e (if you werent). We picked up 6 cashiers and 3 e2e. People are still pissed.
 
I've been keeping my team well informed on what could happen. I've made sure their well trained on all processes so if/when this happens they can go any where, but their still worried they won't get hours. And their sad they will no longer work for me.
 
YourPPTL said:
I'd like to here from these test stores hows its going. Whos been sorting , stapling and handing out all the revisions planos and salesplaners we get each week. Hows it going are the depts geting all the work done. Push. Pulling ,backing stocking revisions. Salesplaners. planos, price change. Zoning etc..its been slow for for price and presentation. Whos keeping the fixture room clean? Shouldn't be the pptl job any longer.. Lots of questions need updates
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Ok, in our store, flow was broken into discrete groups: an essentials team (A block which for us is HBA, cosmetics, pharm, chemicals, pets and paper) a grocery team (which included starbucks and food avenue) a style team (softlines and baby) and fuck it this is what is left of the store team that handles C& D, toys sports seasonal. Finally we have electronics which has the same 4 people because Our etl tasked to run it decided its easier to leave them alone to do since all are veterans.

With the exception of Electronics and the leftovers teams, the others gains new TLs (grocery got one who bumped the starbucks TL who moved to pog because one of out elder pog people retired) Flow TL was reduced in scope to unload only and was given paper to handle. He was not pleased.

Everyone does everything inside our on teams only (which after a month shows why I say C&D are FITIWIL) I set the sales planners over 2 days in pets. I now do auto fills, push, backstocks, pulls & research in 8 hrs.

Same with others in softlines. The ladies (our SL is entirely Female a heritage of previous managers that somehow just continues) now come in a 8 am and do detrashing, sorting and hanging in receiving before pushing to floor.

Backroom is limited to 2 TMs and ETL-log is basically lives in the BR now. ETL-sf (now the essentials ETL) runs point with Grocery TL and Essentials TL on how things are working, training the clueless and monitoring C&D etc to it doesnt get beyond chaotic.

6 people manage C&D (which is the bedding, bath, furniture plastics and decor) 2 for toys and sports and 1 (hahahaha) for seasonal. They mostly veterens and newbs who have limited hours or functions. It is the land of misfit toys.

Pog is limited to department transitions (and the seasonal transitions) signage is tied to pogs transitions. POG doesn't do ANY grocery at all. Thats all on grocery. The transitions are now staggered by product group to make it supposedly easier.

Displays are either signage for major transitions or the TM responsible for the aisle. Housewares TM hates this.

GVP and RVP visited and were pleased at our progress. Our essential numbers grew so they think this is working. So right now, essentials looks good most of time (which shout outs for Cosmetics, pharm and pets) Grocery looks good and softlines looks good. Electronics looks the same and C&D look like the land of misfit toys. Pillow aisle is a confusing mess of randomness.
 
Hardlinesmaster said:
@Flow Warrior, we had not seen changes & are winging it now.
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I feel for you. The processes are different. I mean SL doesn't mind baby as its always been somewhat apart of them, but Bullseyes playground, bothers them. Essentials is almost entirely new people save me and a guy who arrived a month after who was in BR the entire time. We know everything so we generally teach.
Its bath. bedding furniture that looks all raggedly now. Facilities guy bolted all the displays down so people don't wander off with them. Now people hit the button constantly wondering why they cant move the furniture. And they all have signs, 'This is a display'.

There is a fillstation in pets. Its has no button for a reason...
 
My store is mostly the same so far during dayside. Only one area in hardlines has specialists. Backroom is still pulling and pushing everything. Softlines seems the furthest along into the process right now with specialists in shoes, intimates, and toddlers.

Would be nice if we had more direction. Or any. It seemed like there was originally a solid plan in the beginning, but at some point it just got changed to "You do you."
 
Castagnier said:
My store is mostly the same so far during dayside. Only one area in hardlines has specialists. Backroom is still pulling and pushing everything. Softlines seems the furthest along into the process right now with specialists in shoes, intimates, and toddlers.

Would be nice if we had more direction. Or any. It seemed like there was originally a solid plan in the beginning, but at some point it just got changed to "You do you."
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it appears that is also part of the "plan." Target may have finally realized their plans are shat. So are letting the the stores find their own path to the destination. As long as we get there in a reasonable fashion the corporate overlords may be fine with it.

IMHO having a couple dozen people floating about the backroom pulling and backstocking all willy nilly cannot be a good thing. To many chefs in the kitchen and all that.
 
YourPPTL said:
I'd like to here from these test stores hows its going. Whos been sorting , stapling and handing out all the revisions planos and salesplaners we get each week. Hows it going are the depts geting all the work done. Push. Pulling ,backing stocking revisions. Salesplaners. planos, price change. Zoning etc..its been slow for for price and presentation. Whos keeping the fixture room clean? Shouldn't be the pptl job any longer.. Lots of questions need updates
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I'm still organizing all paperwork for the team leaders. I'm fast at it so I offered to do it.!

Push is getting done everyday. Back stock is challenging some days if we have a big truck but by the next day it is done.

We do a lot of manuals and pog fills throughout the day so our auto fills and caf pulls are much smaller then they were before.

Zone is getting done everyday but at different times during the day sometimes. We don't always zone say c-d for closing- we will zone it around 6-8pm and then that tm leaves and then the opener will do any touching up that needs to be done.

We were told to not even look at transitions set on time or price change timeliness anymore. According to my Dtl sometime this year all the weeks price changes are going to drop on Monday and you can decide what day you want to do it. We are currently starting that now so
Our timeliness score is red. Pogs we are mostly getting done during the week but there have been a few that are late.

My vml just took over the fixture room because I said I didn't want it anymore. I staple and get all workload divided out so I thought someone else should be in charge of the fixture room. It's only fair. One of the other tls is going to be in charge of separating out the label strips into dept baskets that I made.

I really tried to make the transition easy on all the tls so I am helping them the best I can by making everything organized for them.

Overall we have been told by both our group director and our group operations leader that we are doing great and they have just told us to keep doing what we are doing. They have no other feedback for us at this time.
 
Tyrant said:
To be fair there's two things here. First, the premise that all of the displays will be there on time for a set is so absurd I'd wager whoever thinks that has NEVER dealt with the entire logistics supply chain that Target has. It just doesn't happen. Also they STILL haven't fixed displays not dropping in batches, POG or REV fills.

Secondly, when they rolled out this new system they specifically stated in the huge packet that displays weren't only one team's responsibility. That literally any team member could handle displays now, which made me laugh my head off because a flow TM properly setting up and signing a display is one of the funniest things I've ever heard of. So unless somewhere during the unload/stocking process that display is caught and handed to a capable TM it could just go anywhere. Backstock, put on the floor as product, who knows where it could end up.

That said I'm always scouting out displays from the unload, pulling the backroom detail report to look for backstocked displays, etc. Up and down the change has made the process much, much harder. I'm so glad they're saving a few pennies somewhere to make every single store spend who knows how many hours deal with this nonsense.
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I am not even sure they are saving a few pennies, how long does it take to
PlanoBitch said:
I'm still organizing all paperwork for the team leaders. I'm fast at it so I offered to do it.!

Push is getting done everyday. Back stock is challenging some days if we have a big truck but by the next day it is done.

We do a lot of manuals and pog fills throughout the day so our auto fills and caf pulls are much smaller then they were before.

Zone is getting done everyday but at different times during the day sometimes. We don't always zone say c-d for closing- we will zone it around 6-8pm and then that tm leaves and then the opener will do any touching up that needs to be done.

We were told to not even look at transitions set on time or price change timeliness anymore. According to my Dtl sometime this year all the weeks price changes are going to drop on Monday and you can decide what day you want to do it. We are currently starting that now so
Our timeliness score is red. Pogs we are mostly getting done during the week but there have been a few that are late.

My vml just took over the fixture room because I said I didn't want it anymore. I staple and get all workload divided out so I thought someone else should be in charge of the fixture room. It's only fair. One of the other tls is going to be in charge of separating out the label strips into dept baskets that I made.

I really tried to make the transition easy on all the tls so I am helping them the best I can by making everything organized for them.

Overall we have been told by both our group director and our group operations leader that we are doing great and they have just told us to keep doing what we are doing. They have no other feedback for us at this time.
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Lmfao
 
PlanoBitch said:
I'm still organizing all paperwork for the team leaders. I'm fast at it so I offered to do it.!

Push is getting done everyday. Back stock is challenging some days if we have a big truck but by the next day it is done.

We do a lot of manuals and pog fills throughout the day so our auto fills and caf pulls are much smaller then they were before.

Zone is getting done everyday but at different times during the day sometimes. We don't always zone say c-d for closing- we will zone it around 6-8pm and then that tm leaves and then the opener will do any touching up that needs to be done.

We were told to not even look at transitions set on time or price change timeliness anymore. According to my Dtl sometime this year all the weeks price changes are going to drop on Monday and you can decide what day you want to do it. We are currently starting that now so
Our timeliness score is red. Pogs we are mostly getting done during the week but there have been a few that are late.

My vml just took over the fixture room because I said I didn't want it anymore. I staple and get all workload divided out so I thought someone else should be in charge of the fixture room. It's only fair. One of the other tls is going to be in charge of separating out the label strips into dept baskets that I made.

I really tried to make the transition easy on all the tls so I am helping them the best I can by making everything organized for them.

Overall we have been told by both our group director and our group operations leader that we are doing great and they have just told us to keep doing what we are doing. They have no other feedback for us at this time.
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What!?
 
balthrop said:
it appears that is also part of the "plan." Target may have finally realized their plans are shat. So are letting the the stores find their own path to the destination. As long as we get there in a reasonable fashion the corporate overlords may be fine with it.

IMHO having a couple dozen people floating about the backroom pulling and backstocking all willy nilly cannot be a good thing. To many chefs in the kitchen and all that.
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Yep, many of the best practices are looser than before. However, how many hours you spend per workcenter is getting cracked down. Payroll allocations are going through a major overhaul and MyTime is supposedly getting upgraded. You will no longer earn payroll because of sales, but based on calculated workload. Areas like trailer unload and market will earn hours based on total units stocked, not any given dollar amount or total trucks. There will then be a metric out to make sure stores are spending all the hours in each bucket (and not underspending in one to overspend in another).

This will mean most stores will be operating in general the same (you won't be able to come across one store having certain areas heavier staffed than others to do extra things), but within a given week you can have that team operate however you want.

This is actually a great thing, despite MyTime yet to convince me it knows exactly what its doing but its a step in the right direction. You will no longer be able to hear things like, "At my store Instocks pulls and works their own batches" and another store say "Instocks only scans here"... We will all have the same general Instocks workload (Scanning and working out their pulls), but when you want them to do RIGs, what areas they scan and when will be up to you... and this will be true for all workcenters.
 
PlanoBitch said:
Overall we have been told by both our group director and our group operations leader that we are doing great and they have just told us to keep doing what we are doing. They have no other feedback for us at this time.
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I'm curious what group you're in. I know we're encouraged not to share that stuff, but man I want to know if this is coming to my store/area.
 
Logo said:
Wait so plano will actually have to do their own push? That might not sit well with our current team. Lol
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Oh come on... Be nice you won't know you miss us untill we're gone. Some teams like mine work all there push, clearance, disc. Do there own backstock. Check capacitys and quantitys. Set Salesplaners. Set the ad. They love them in my store.
 
mammoth said:
If Plano will do their own push, how will we ever decide what to do for huddle project?
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Huddle projects should go away IMO. Everyone will just come in and go to their departments and help with whatever they are working on at that moment. Freight - Backstock - Scan - Transitions - Pricing - Reshop - Zone - Repeat...
 
Rock Lobster said:
Reshop - Zone - Repeat...
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Forever and ever until the end of time...

Job security!

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BigEyedPhish said:
What!?
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It's all about being a business owner. If you have sales planners that have home locs and it's not selling why would you put it on an endcap? Use my stats and put something up there that's going to sell. You have to be smart about it though- if it has no other location or is something for an upcoming holiday or something then you would want to set it.

The week before Easter we didn't finish our otc transition because it made more sense to service the guests and Brand and fill the floor. We mad sure it got done the week after though. It just made more sense to wait on it. Again being a business owner and making the right decisions for your store.
 

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