I don't know if it would have been a deliberate choice, but if the process to trigger the labels had broken and there were more critical processes to fix during the busy season, I could see it being pushed down the priority list.
That would surprise me, considering the huge deal they make on the Workbench training for SFS about the labels because Target is fined for noncompliance with the labeling. UPS doesn't fuck around with that, I guess.
I haven't seen or heard anything about those SFS clips, anyone have SAP codes for those? I had a fully picked cart grabbed from the pack station and worked back out to the floor about a dozen times this season, maybe the clips can dissuade these morons a bit.
It's kind of unrelated, but something I would love to see is more integration between the Zebra apps, MyWork/Move/RFID. As it is now, when I'm trying to dig into softlines INF, I have to toggle out of move, re-log in to MyWork and type in the DPCI to check the on-hands and last received date, then toggle to RFID and type in the DPCI once more to start scanning. Maybe it seems a little petty, but I feel like it's needlessly cumbersome, especially as I continue to be terrible at quickly memorizing 9-digit numbers and have to toggle back and forth to punch in the correct DPCI.
I also wish the Move app showed at least as much item info that MyFA did. When it shows a picture of some plain Cat & Jack black pants, I have to bring it up on my phone's target app to see if it's boys or girls. I've got some of the softlines department numbers memorized which helps a bit, but the app should just be more helpful to begin with.
1. The black and white ones were just sent to the stores, not ordered, I'm not sure if they even can be reordered. They came in a UPS box addressed to the ETL-Log, I think, and they're larger than the normal clips. There are blue "Store Pick-Up" clips that are like the pull/backstock/etc ones, but I'm not sure what the number is.
2. You would think the integration would be easy, since intents on Android (the thing that makes, for example, Reddit links open in the Reddit app instead of in the browser, and is how your phone knows which apps you can share various stuff to with the Share button) were meant for exactly this kind of thing. What would be
really nice is a "..." menu on the item screen that has "Open in myWork", "Open in RFIDIM", and "Open in Target app". If SFS is truly the future, then it's time for them to make the investment in SFS being an efficient process- which means things like expanding the team that works on the apps so that changes can be made in a timely manner, having developers sit down with and shadow store teams to see how our process really works WITHOUT a leader present (I've long suspected that corporate has a tenuous grasp on how our process actually works- see, for example, the infamous "backstock" message when most FFTMs just backstock items themselves, the way that skipping items works, inability to undo an INF, etc), and purchasing more RFID scanners so each FFTM can use one while they pick.
I might as well dump my Move wishlist here, since it's been brewing for a while.
1. Let us drop items into some sort of "double check" task list, instead of having to INF them or pause the batch. Given that stores only have a few RFID scanners, it'd be amazing to be able to have a batch of JUST items that need to be RFID'd or checked for unlocated in back, rather than having a bunch of paused batches and having the 40min wave time not begin until all items are found/INF'd. I understand why it works the way it does, but there has to be some solution (maybe have things get "put" from the double check cart into the normal carts like they do for OPU orders).
2. The way that Move treats casepacks is very confusing, especially when there's not actually a whole casepack on a shelf. If it says "10 needed" and there's only 5, I don't want to enter 5 because I don't know until I've entered that number how many are
actually needed, and it's too time consuming to toggle to myWork to check the onhands/for other BR locations. It'd be nice if, when it wants you to scan the item, it told you how many it actually needed, like saying "10 items in casepack (5 needed for orders)" or something.
3. It's also unfortunate that it doesn't let you remove MORE items from the shelf than are needed. Like, if it says 2 needed, and there's 6 in the sealed casepack on the shelf, I really just want to remove all 6 so I can backstock the other 4 in wacos, but doing that right now requires an additional step. Since the "How many did you pick?" is a text field, it'd be nice if you could enter a larger quantity and it'd just verify that you wanted to remove more (it should know if the additional items you're taking are located on the shelf, I would think).
4. You should really be able to skip around in the task list by tapping on the items, instead of having to mash "skip item". If I'm in A9 and want to skip to B1 instead of going to F70, where Move is trying to send me, it'd be nice to not have to mash skip 20 times, and instead just tap on the item in B1 in the list.
5. Why, oh why, is there no way to cancel an OPU item during the "Put" screen? We had some seasonals who didn't understand the concept of scanning the item not the shelf tag, so we nded up having to call CSC fairly often to cancel those OPUs because we had no way of doing it. Even entering "0" on the "How many did you pick?" or "How many did you put?" screen would work, I would think.
God, that was cathartic to write.
