Archived Is anyone elses HBA stockroom a mess?

[Kompa]

Like, our cosmetics section is TRASHED. We have like 17 different dpci's in a waco. It takes too long to pull, people get pissed and m-delete everything and sometimes i feel like setting on fire.

It doesn't help that I had to pull like 300 boxes of diapers for price change today but I'm seriously going to go insane if I every have to pull cosmetics every again.

 

[consume]

Like, our cosmetics section is TRASHED. We have like 17 different dpci's in a waco. It takes too long to pull, people get pissed and m-delete everything and sometimes i feel like setting on fire.

It doesn't help that I had to pull like 300 boxes of diapers for price change today but I'm seriously going to go insane if I every have to pull cosmetics every again.

Nah, only a very small numbers of stores have that problem.. Oh, i thought you said not trashed.. Yeah that's pretty much all of us

 

[Backroom81]

Our cosmetics are backstocked in wacos that are approximatetly 2" wide and 8" deep. There's about 90+ wacos in a single 4' section and around 4 sections for the aisle we have it down but it's pretty much 1 DPCI per box. Our o/n backroom TL handles the HBA backstock personally. NO ONE touches it except him or the Sr TL over flow. It works very well.

 

[oath2order]

I'm working on partnering with my ETL-SF to figure out a plan in my store. Cosmetics in my store is about 90 wacos in a 4 foot section, with a total of 6 four-foot sections. What we plan on doing is SOMEHOW working on a way to sort out the backroom to be organized by brand. For example the wacos on the fourth and fifth shelf in the first section can be "Covergirl product only".

It's a work in progress but once all the stuff is sorted out there'll be labels mentioning this. I'm still trying to figure out the best method for how to actually DO it though.

 

[konk]

Ours has been set up like that since I've been there. People don't follow it anymore. The only benefit I see is when pulling, brands will be together.

 

[Guest]

It's horrible at my store. The 12pm caf pulls are a joke in cosm, phar, HBO1, and HBO2. I basically pull a full shopping cart of shite that was just back stocked. I'm like what's the point of even putting it on a pull tub? A sales floor team member will see it and be like "that's flow team, I'm not working it" or someone pushes it out but none of it goes out. Lately, I just put all of those groups o a back stock tub when I pull the 12pm car pulls.

 

[balthrop]

only 17 per waco? that is nothing my dear friend. Are they located? if they are… or even most of them then you are far better off than most.

I'm working on partnering with my ETL-SF to figure out a plan in my store. Cosmetics in my store is about 90 wacos in a 4 foot section, with a total of 6 four-foot sections. What we plan on doing is SOMEHOW working on a way to sort out the backroom to be organized by brand. For example the wacos on the fourth and fifth shelf in the first section can be "Covergirl product only".

It's a work in progress but once all the stuff is sorted out there'll be labels mentioning this. I'm still trying to figure out the best method for how to actually DO it though.

for years we tried this. kept moving COSM all over the back room. for a little while it lived in the electronics lock up. Now it hides in some slapped together section of backroom that nothing else fits in. and it is in the worst state its ever been in. The main problem being that COSM needs more space than we have to be properly maintained. with all the remodels over the years our backroom keeps getting smaller and smaller.

 

[balthrop]

It's horrible at my store. The 12pm caf pulls are a joke in cosm, phar, HBO1, and HBO2. I basically pull a full shopping cart of shite that was just back stocked. I'm like what's the point of even putting it on a pull tub? A sales floor team member will see it and be like "that's flow team, I'm not working it" or someone pushes it out but none of it goes out. Lately, I just put all of those groups o a back stock tub when I pull the 12pm car pulls.

take backstock clip off put priority clip on and call it done. some one says something then "SF just brought back and did not push anything to the floor".

 

[IhaveaDream]

backstocking by brand doesn't really matter if the puller sorts when he does his pull(which he should).
We have ours separated by nail polish, lipstick, then everything else. 3 dpcis per waco and we have waco dividers that divide the lipstick & nail polish into 3 sections.
I will let slide up to 5 dpci's in a waco. If I see 6 or more in 1 waco, I will view the location report and see who was the last one to backstock into it.
If it is a really bad case like someone did it to many wacos, then they get punished by backstock + zoning all of hb01, hb02, and cosmetics.

 

[Kompa]

backstocking by brand doesn't really matter if the puller sorts when he does his pull(which he should).
We have ours separated by nail polish, lipstick, then everything else. 3 dpcis per waco and we have waco dividers that divide the lipstick & nail polish into 3 sections.
I will let slide up to 5 dpci's in a waco. If I see 6 or more in 1 waco, I will view the location report and see who was the last one to backstock into it.
If it is a really bad case like someone did it to many wacos, then they get punished by backstock + zoning all of hb01, hb02, and cosmetics.

To be fair, when pulling the cafs, you don't really have time to sort the wacos as you full

What if every waco is like that? I mean, it's good to follow up on backsotckers but in out store, every single waco is will with 20+ items in COSM lol. Maybe I would get with my Flow TL or the instocks TL and see if we could get like 3 people to super zone it. Our section is really small with only a A and B section with about 6 wacos on 4 shelves each. They have this stupid divider in each waca to where you need to pull the entire thing out scan what's in the back of it.

 

[oath2order]

oh oops my store has 8 sections. A through H.

More room than I thought.

How exactly do you zone the locations? LOCU everything?

 

[IhaveaDream]

backstocking by brand doesn't really matter if the puller sorts when he does his pull(which he should).
We have ours separated by nail polish, lipstick, then everything else. 3 dpcis per waco and we have waco dividers that divide the lipstick & nail polish into 3 sections.
I will let slide up to 5 dpci's in a waco. If I see 6 or more in 1 waco, I will view the location report and see who was the last one to backstock into it.
If it is a really bad case like someone did it to many wacos, then they get punished by backstock + zoning all of hb01, hb02, and cosmetics.

To be fair, when pulling the cafs, you don't really have time to sort the wacos as you full

What if every waco is like that? I mean, it's good to follow up on backsotckers but in out store, every single waco is will with 20+ items in COSM lol. Maybe I would get with my Flow TL or the instocks TL and see if we could get like 3 people to super zone it. Our section is really small with only a A and B section with about 6 wacos on 4 shelves each. They have this stupid divider in each waca to where you need to pull the entire thing out scan what's in the back of it.

There is so much wrong with that. 1st off there should be more shelves with wacos on them, with cosmetics there should be only 1 or 2 shelves for boxes. The dividers are not stupid when things are backstock to best practice(3 dcpis per waco). 20 dpcis in a single waco ruins you pull times and prob creates alot of errors when scanning through.
I did not mean sorting the wacos as you pull, I meant sorting your pulls as you pull, instead of just throwing them into a cluster.

Personally, I would sit down and write down all the cons of having that small section for cosmetics. Write-down possible solutions. Get some feed-back from your fellow team members. Ask them " Do you encounter and trouble pulling/stocking cosmetics?" and "Do you have any ideas on how to fix the problem?".
After a week or so, of carefully planning what to say then go ahead and ask your TL for a conversation. Now you have to plan, UNLESS your teamlead trusts you very well. For example, I can go to my teamlead and say "The chemical wall looks like shit," and it will be zoned the next time I come in. Or I can go " Hey Yesterday it took joe smith 30 minutes to push a tub of toys," and next time you bet joe smith is pushing toys faster next time. If your team lead doesnt trust/like you then you got to plan for his rebuttals.
You- Hey team lead, most of the wacos have 10+ dpcis per waco
TL- Well, we do not have the room for more wacos
You- You say we do not have the room, but we have 4 cosmetic shelves for box stock yet we barely have 1 shelf full. How about if we change 2 of the shelves into waco shelves. That gives us 12 more wacos in which we can fit 36- 60 more dpcis. I will even partner up with another team member and get it taken off when we have an extra 10 mins one day.
TL- That doesn't sound like a bad idea actually. I will follow-up with you when we have some extra time.
You- Thanks and i wont let you forget 😉