Archived In-stocks, affecting sales impact question

[Backstock9]

I know this sounds like a stupid question, and for all intents and purposes it probably is; but could an STL manipulate how the store is shot for in-stocks in order to receive to more stock than what is actually needed? Could they do this for the sake of the argument that 'The more stock we receive, the more stock we can sale, and the bigger sales will be.'?

A lot of my team feels our STL is doing this, he assists the in-stocks team with shooting the store, and while we get a few items that do sell, we are getting buried in back stock.

I'm not sure what to believe, but I thought I would put the question out there to get feedback.

 

[Westcoast7]

I do know my ETL apparently told a relatively new instocks tm to zero out all our pogs empty slots, knowing damn well those empty spots are in transition pallets in the back room. Seemed shady to me because it's apart of my job to research after the transition is pushed out.

 

[mrknownothing]

In the PDA days, one could shoot OUTS. That would affect replenishment but not the OH count. If you zeroed out an item enough and the DC had plenty of stock, you could receive more of the product in theory.

I'm not sure how you'd do it now without using Research and zeroing all the OH counts, which would result in a ridiculous drastic report and almost certainly raise red flags with AP.

 

[ElectronicsTM]

My store leadership has done this with our display TVs. We were told to "remove" our display TVs from our on hand count so we would get more in stock.

 

[Bosch]

In the PDA days, one could shoot OUTS. That would affect replenishment but not the OH count. If you zeroed out an item enough and the DC had plenty of stock, you could receive more of the product in theory.

I'm not sure how you'd do it now without using Research and zeroing all the OH counts, which would result in a ridiculous drastic report and almost certainly raise red flags with AP.

You can still shoot outs on a MyDevice - none mode, fill from stockroom(if you have this option - means you have backroom locs) if not an option your backroom is empty(supposedly).

@Westcoast7 that TM should have refused to do that.. I will NOT zero anything until a pog is fully pushed. That is why he picked the newb.

 

[Westcoast7]

You can still shoot outs on a MyDevice - none mode, fill from stockroom(if you have this option - means you have backroom locs) if not an option your backroom is empty(supposedly).

@Westcoast7 that TM should have refused to do that.. I will NOT zero anything until a pog is fully pushed. That is why he picked the newb.

Some of my TMs got extremely pissed off about it. Same crap happened in toys

 

[Bosch]

Some of my TMs got extremely pissed off about it. Same crap happened in toys

Cause you know what I would have done, gone right back on the drastic and put every single one back in.. What I had to do once with every single vacuum display that one of our newbs zero'd out on orders from an ETL.. I told them if it has a cord, count it, no cord don't count it, same with microwaves and coffee makers, blenders and anything else that is not a shell display. Our store yours may vary.

 

[mrknownothing]

You can still shoot outs on a MyDevice - none mode, fill from stockroom(if you have this option - means you have backroom locs) if not an option your backroom is empty(supposedly).

True, but that doesn't do anything if there's no product in the backroom. OUTS would set the accumulator so that you'd receive product from the DC and when it arrived at the store, it would be sent to the floor. If I understand correctly, EXF worked the same way; it would set the accumulator regardless of whether or not the product was in the backroom.

 

[Bosch]

True, but that doesn't do anything if there's no product in the backroom. OUTS would set the accumulator so that you'd receive product from the DC and when it arrived at the store, it would be sent to the floor. If I understand correctly, EXF worked the same way; it would set the accumulator regardless of whether or not the product was in the backroom.

What research is for, it also keeps any idiot from screwing with numbers.

 

[Rock Lobster]

I know this sounds like a stupid question, and for all intents and purposes it probably is; but could an STL manipulate how the store is shot for in-stocks in order to receive to more stock than what is actually needed? Could they do this for the sake of the argument that 'The more stock we receive, the more stock we can sale, and the bigger sales will be.'?

A lot of my team feels our STL is doing this, he assists the in-stocks team with shooting the store, and while we get a few items that do sell, we are getting buried in back stock.

I'm not sure what to believe, but I thought I would put the question out there to get feedback.

I doubt its Instocks scanning that is actually causing THAT much more freight to enter the building. While it is true that a bad research scan will cause errors (and then you will start receiving replenishment on some items you do not need that much of), it would have to be consistent and affect count updates quite a bit.

Your store may have requested an increase to their OTL for certain categories through mysupport. You generally do this with departments that are comping more than 5% to help fuel the sales more because the system is not going to adjust for that sales increase. You also want to do this the other way (a department that is comping down a ton and is increasing in A-Markdowns will likely need a decrease because you are holding onto too much product).