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[Punch Correction]

What is the best way for one person to get the maximum amour of endcaps done in one eight hour shift? How many endcaps should one be able to set?

 

[commiecorvus]

Just from observation (and having to redo way too many of the damn things) ...

Talk to your signing ninja and find out what signing you are going to need ahead of time.
If they have the time they can help you put it up and that will save time.
If they don't, at least they will be able to pull it out and make sure you have it on hand.

Print off the planograms, not just the picture on the front.
That way you will know what you need in terms of shelves, peg hooks, backer paper, etc.

Get a tub or a flat and put everything you need on it so you don't keep running back and forth.
Planning ahead will save you a ton of time.

Talk to your backroom people about what you are going to need to pull and what is going to be back stocked.

 

[mrknownothing]

Talk to your backroom people about what you are going to need to pull and what is going to be back stocked.

This. It's a good idea to let the backroom team know in advance that you're going to be dropping POG fills and sending them large amounts of backstock (after pushing to the home location first!).

 

[GlobalJ]

Question I have when dropping a batch. Is it POG Fill or New POG fill? In other words is it 2-2-2 or 2-2-1 in RF Apps? For some reason this keeps escaping my mind.

 

[looseseal]

Question I have when dropping a batch. Is it POG Fill or New POG fill? In other words is it 2-2-2 or 2-2-1 in RF Apps? For some reason this keeps escaping my mind.

New pog fill, which is 2-2-2, I think. I forget what a regular pog fill is for exactly... Revisions maybe? Or it has something to do with replenishing without filling to capacity, which is the idea of a new pog fill.

 

[mrknownothing]

Question I have when dropping a batch. Is it POG Fill or New POG fill? In other words is it 2-2-2 or 2-2-1 in RF Apps? For some reason this keeps escaping my mind.

New pog fill, which is 2-2-2, I think. I forget what a regular pog fill is for exactly... Revisions maybe? Or it has something to do with replenishing without filling to capacity, which is the idea of a new pog fill.

Info on POG fills, courtesy of Rock Lobster: http://www.thebreakroom.org/showthread.php/6151-POG-fills?p=91261&viewfull=1#post91261

When you shoot a POG fill, it's like shooting a manual CAF but just for a single planogram (rather than an entire fillgroup). It only pulls items based on the accumulator, i.e. how much the system thinks will fit on the floor. If I remember correctly, the difference between a New POG fill and a POG fill is that the New POG fill will only pull items that are not carry-forward from the previous planogram, whereas the POG fill doesn't care whether or not the items were there before. Of course, when you're setting a salesplanner, it doesn't really matter, seeing as it's highly unlikely that any of the product is carry-forward from the previous SPL that was on that endcap. But if you want to be on the safe side, use a New POG fill (and pull from the home location if the New POG fill doesn't give you enough product).

 

[StaticSun]

Plan in advance.
Know how much stock you have in the back, and where the home locs are.
Drop batches the 24-48 hours in advance, so BR has enough time to pull.
Prep your signage prior.
Go 1-2-3 boom, boom, boom.

 

[eleuthreophile]

Drop batches the 24-48 hours in advance, so BR has enough time to pull.

This has never once happened in my store. Usually they drop the batch right before they set it, so the endcap sits empty most of the day.

 

[looseseal]

Salesfloor, plano, softlines, and anyone else setting endcaps or pogs have to pull their own batches and take care of their own backstock at my store. Backroom will pull EXFs for wine vendor visits for us, but that's about it.

 

[Backroom81]

the New POG fill will only pull items that are not carry-forward from the previous planogram

Theoretically. There are some areas in the store that often has product carry forward and new pog fills LOVE to pull it out again. The baking focal in grocery, grocery cartwell, and Tune In Tuesday pogs are terrible at this. I have a hard time believing that this week's checklane movie endcap needs another 20 copies of Smurfs 2.

 

[mrknownothing]

I have a hard time believing that this week's checklane movie endcap needs another 20 copies of Smurfs 2.

If they don't fit at the checklanes, might they be needed for the two or three locations back in MMB? Maybe those locations weren't full when the batch was dropped.

 

[Backroom81]

If they don't fit at the checklanes, might they be needed for the two or three locations back in MMB? Maybe those locations weren't full when the batch was dropped.

They aren't needed there either and movies that have been out for a few weeks tend to drop in the revision pog batches in addition to the endcap. Our TnT pogs are usually about 75% backstock (in other words, almost everything that wasn't a new release that week). I've been toying with the idea of burning anything that I know is already on the floor and only pulling the upcoming street dated stuff and titles I don't recognize/haven't pulled before.

The same thing happens a lot when the grocery cartwell changes. For example, there will be a 4 foot section of Kraft Mayo that will carry forward and even though nothing on it changed, it has a new POG # so we have to drop a POG fill to satisfy the TWT report. That pog batch will pull quantities as if it was completely empty even though it was 90% full. The same exact thing happens when the baking focal endcap changes after Thanksgiving. Even though 70% of the stuff carries forward (canned pumpkin, chocolate chips, etc), the batch pulls it as if it was being built from scratch.

I've heard rumors that it has something to do with breaking the old tie before tying the new planogram vs tying the new one and dropping the fill before breaking the old tie but unfortunately, it's hard to test as the sales floor has already done all of that before they even made us aware that they are going to be setting anything that day.

 

[sigma7]

I can tell you what's going on in entertainment. Most of the time, every new planogram for the week will be a revision. If an item moves locations, but is still on the same planogram the revision pull quantity will be correct (ie. a movie is on D058 NR 1 during week one and the 2nd week's revision moves it down a few shelves, but it is still on the D058 NR 1 planogram). The over pulling occurs when a title moves from one planogram to another. When it actually changes physical locations, you'll usually have way more than you need already on the floor from another planogram that you already revised.

Like when movies move from high capacity endcaps to a standard capacity shelf. 18 DVDs can fit in a high capacity facing. If that movie revises off D058 NR1 and moves to D058 NR 3 which has standard capacity shelves, then the new capacity for one facing is only 7. Let's say that each planogram had/has one facing for this movie. The entertainment tm pulls off 18 from one location, puts 7 back up in the new location, and sends the other 11 to backstock. The system, however, is not smart enough to know that 18 copies were already on the floor and no more are needed, so it pulls 7 copies from the back in the revision pull since the item is new on D058 NR 2. Hence why you end up pulling items that go straight to backstock.

This was a kink that the infamous summer '10 software update actually fixed. When creating pulls, the program took into account what the accumulator said was already on the floor and automatically created the pull for you. For entertainment at least, there was much less over pulling and, in turn, much less backstock.

 

[Backroom81]

I can tell you what's going on in entertainment. Most of the time, every new planogram for the week will be a revision. If an item moves locations, but is still on the same planogram the revision pull quantity will be correct (ie. a movie is on D058 NR 1 during week one and the 2nd week's revision moves it down a few shelves, but it is still on the D058 NR 1 planogram). The over pulling occurs when a title moves from one planogram to another. When it actually changes physical locations, you'll usually have way more than you need already on the floor from another planogram that you already revised.

Like when movies move from high capacity endcaps to a standard capacity shelf. 18 DVDs can fit in a high capacity facing. If that movie revises off D058 NR1 and moves to D058 NR 3 which has standard capacity shelves, then the new capacity for one facing is only 7. Let's say that each planogram had/has one facing for this movie. The entertainment tm pulls off 18 from one location, puts 7 back up in the new location, and sends the other 11 to backstock. The system, however, is not smart enough to know that 18 copies were already on the floor and no more are needed, so it pulls 7 copies from the back in the revision pull since the item is new on D058 NR 2. Hence why you end up pulling items that go straight to backstock.

This was a kink that the infamous summer '10 software update actually fixed. When creating pulls, the program took into account what the accumulator said was already on the floor and automatically created the pull for you. For entertainment at least, there was much less over pulling and, in turn, much less backstock.

Gotcha. Sounds like I should go with the "Is this item already on the floor? Burn it!" idea.

I wasn't working for Target in 2010. I had quit in 06 and came back in 11. When I had left, our MMB specialist did the entire TnT process and the only thing I had to do was help with the backstock occasionally. I've been the one to pull it every Monday since I've been back and it's pretty annoying to see the amount of it that doesn't go out.

 

[sigma7]

IMHO, you should actually pull it and stage it for the entertainment tm/pog team since you don't know what moved where. Something could've gained an extra facing or have double locations now. Let whoever set the revisions push it out and bring back the actual backstock. The only way I would even say you could consider burning any entertainment batches is if you just back stocked the overstock from the revisions and you trust that whoever set the revisions pushed every location to capacity. Then you could consider burning the items in the pull that you just backstocked.

But I would never condone burning batches. I'm all for subt9999 for salesplanners/revision/transition backstock. But I'm never in favor of burning batches.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Since I am doing the mmb TNT now, I do a an exf batch, instead a pog fill. The qty's under pog are influenced by other pogs. But, I do fill all other locations. I had done a new pog in mmb, it asked for 18 qty, instead of 6 qty. I pulled 18 qty & sto 12 qty. there was another pog from 1/12, that messed the real qty count. It was a shipper.