MEGATHREAD Signing Tips, Tricks and Quips (along with howls of despair)

[FlowTeamChick]

I have some questions about the guided workload.

1. How far deep do you update SFC/SFQ? If the revision is for 6 sections, but it's like 1 or 2 items changing. Do you update every item in that aisle??? It seems kind of stupid spending ~30 minutes doing SFC/SFQ on let's say the Hotwheel/action aisle if it's only a small change.

2. Do you do PPA for every transition/revision/spl??

3. Does the timer stop when you exit out the set? What if you started the set and have to finish it tomorrow?

I feel this guided pog is more complicated then it has to be and less efficient. I question whether Target can even afford to give extra hours for how much longer it's taking us to set this way.

1) I do only those that I suspect will be wrong or already know are wrong. Like when the batch it has me pull ends up with surplus or certain products I know from experience won't fit what it says.

I think even if only a few things change, SFQs for the whole POG can change, but I don't know that for sure. I've noticed it with other ones, but didn't actually check it out with ones I did today.

2) I do the PPA later, unless there's something specific I want to say about a particular POG. Those things are tedious and time-consuming.

3) Don't know about the timer, but I hope it stops when I exit.

As for what @jenna says about skipping through steps, I've wondered the same thing.

About @LuvMyPack's method of using 2 zebras at the same time - won't it know that you're logged into both and "doing" two POGs at the same time? I get why, but it seems like this might not work for long. But then what if two TMs are working on the same POG? Plenty of them are large enough that 2 or even 3 TMs could be working on it at the same time.

 

[RunForACallBox]

I have been setting with it for several weeks. I always grab 2 devices now. For books, I start one pog on my main device and click thru to “built” so that I can do sfc/sfq and audit in one. On the second device, I start a different pog and just let it run for however long corporate says it should take. When done setting the first pog, I jump into the one I was fake setting and finish it off. Meanwhile, my second device has started a new pog. For me, this is the easiest way I have found to do pogs and not have to pull/backstock things I don’t need , or count the same item multiple times for different steps

This makes no sense to me why you need two devices.

 

[OldSchoolVet]

I’ve just used the “Jump to Scan” option and update my SFQs that way as a workaround.

Did the "jump to scan" today. Not as fast as the old way buy at least I'm able to fix SFQ and O/Hs before the pull.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Did the "jump to scan" today. Not as fast as the old way buy at least I'm able to fix SFQ and O/Hs before the pull.

Thanks for the reminder. But I'm confused. It seems like when I did this, I was looking at old POG info, with the previous location. So I was thinking it didn't work to change the SFQ before the pull?

I need to pay better attention in the next one.

 

[OldSchoolVet]

Thanks for the reminder. But I'm confused. It seems like when I did this, I was looking at old POG info, with the previous location. So I was thinking it didn't work to change the SFQ before the pull?

I need to pay better attention in the next one.

It is the old location because the new POG info won't show until you finalize the POG at the very end. It still updates the info though. I've been doing it this way and it pulls exactly what I need.

 

[BKop16]

Having both old and new locations for revisions is nice.

 

[BKop16]

A few more things I've noticed. The Jump to Scan option is huge and solves a lot of my complaints. Until you go through "Finalize Build" step the POG isn't tied, SFQs are zero, and the pull batch hasn't dropped. So if we're unable to complete the set that day we don't have to worry about untieing the new POG for the evening. Also focus on setting label strips and peg hooks and then go into Finalize Build. The remerchandise step can be used to move product but now you can fix SFQs.

After the Pull and Fill step is where it asks you to adjust SFC/SFQs. Again the "Jump to Scan" option is great and still keeps the clock rolling.

And if the TM is doing anything related to a set make sure they are in the set pog screen. Even cleaning up trash and putting away fixtures. HQ needs to know that time is apart of the set.

 

[IceIceBaby]

Do they actually want us to build section by section or can we do all section at once??

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Do they actually want us to build section by section or can we do all section at once??

You don't have to do this - I did one today where there were a lot of pegs and it was easier to do the outside parts of two sections and then do the middle part where they meet. So I was going back and forth between two sections.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Having both old and new locations for revisions is nice.

How do you see both locations? I'm seeing only the old one and it's not helpful. If I scan a new product when I'm in the "build" phase, it doesn't tell me the location in the new POG. So I'm hunting for DPCIs on the label strip.

Sometimes, it doesn't matter all that much if I have a product that's that same size - like a new Dove deodorant which is the same size container as the other ones. But sometimes it does make a difference and I want to make sure I'm allowing enough space as I'm going along.

I know I could wait until the end, but then I sometimes have to re-do parts.

 

[IceIceBaby]

You don't have to do this - I did one today where there were a lot of pegs and it was easier to do the outside parts of two sections and then do the middle part where they meet. So I was going back and forth between two sections.

Ok I wasn't sure if they were timing each individual section. Doing it all at once is way more efficient for me.

 

[TargetSigningHo]

I'm starting to like the guided pog a bit more each day I'm using it. It's keeps the team setting at best practice (however I found my TL skipping his priority today 😩 not surprised). The only improvement I want to see are the steps being condensed/cut in half, especially in the build phase. We don't need steps for each section. Just give us a drop down box for each section so we don't have to go back n forth all the time. ISM should just be one step not 6.

 

[LostJacob21]

Has anyone had any problems with random aisles becoming untied ever since the guided pog system started?

 

[jenna]

Has anyone had any problems with random aisles becoming untied ever since the guided pog system started?

A thread on Reddit -- a team member mentions this issue. Posted the following:



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My store got it a couple months ago to test, its good for new pog learners but that’s about it. They also said it’s to track the timing better–but i generally just speed through the set & go through it when I’m finished lol. It also likes to randomly un-tie pogs i’ve done already.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

ISM should just be one step not 6.

And if there's no new ISM, it shouldn't even be part of the guided process. Did Women's Shave the other day and there's a lot of ISM, but it's not new. Yet I have to click through all the sections for it.

It's not hard. But I'm the kind of person who stops paying attention after a while and then there comes a time when I really should pay attention and don't. Just tell me what I actually need to know.

 

[Alexbegt]

And if there's no new ISM, it shouldn't even be part of the guided process. Did Women's Shave the other day and there's a lot of ISM, but it's not new. Yet I have to click through all the sections for it.

It's not hard. But I'm the kind of person who stops paying attention after a while and then there comes a time when I really should pay attention and don't. Just tell me what I actually need to know.

I’ve learned to just jump to the last section when doing ISM by using the 3 dots. No point in clocking each step.

I also totally didn’t set one of the toy pogs in reverse making my way from end to the beginning - since they felt the need to move tonies to the first 3 sections and then the paw patrol toys to the end of the aisle. Wonder how that looked on the guided workload

 

[BKop16]

I also totally didn’t set one of the toy pogs in reverse making my way from end to the beginning - since they felt the need to move tonies to the first 3 sections and then the paw patrol toys to the end of the aisle. Wonder how that looked on the guided workload

Of course that was the most logical thing to do with that POG.

 

[Sisyphus]

The greenfield card shows what percentage of steps (per store/district/ect) are getting completed in just a few seconds. I suspect that's where the pushback will come down if this is what they actually want us to do.

How does one find that card?

 

[BKop16]

How does one find that card?

Its a dashboard called POG Guided Work. Its a store ops made card.

 

[Dead and Khaki]

Skipskipskipskipskip.

My thumb is getting tired.

I wonder if there's a Greenfield card showing how much total time I've spent clicking through the nanny app instead of, you know, setting.

 

[Sisyphus]

With the pog guided work, with putting the remerchandise part after the set of all the sections, it seems to imply everything should be taken off the shelves for the whole aisle, then set the pog, then remerchandise everything? Elsewise you would remerchandise after setting each section. So we end up skipping through that part because its already done

 

[BKop16]

With the pog guided work, with putting the remerchandise part after the set of all the sections, it seems to imply everything should be taken off the shelves for the whole aisle, then set the pog, then remerchandise everything? Elsewise you would remerchandise after setting each section. So we end up skipping through that part because its already done

Yep. Even with revisions it implies you should be de-merching the entire shaded part of the POG which obviously anyone with experience knows isn't the smart move.

 

[SigningLady]

Guided POG is fine as a training tool, not as a working tool.

Trying to work thru Hearth & Hand today was a bitch using it. Had items come off one POG but not show up on another until after I had completed the Build part- it scanned like NOP merch until the build was complete. 🤦🏻‍♀️

 

[RunForACallBox]

I'm starting to like the guided pog a bit more each day I'm using it. It's keeps the team setting at best practice (however I found my TL skipping his priority today 😩 not surprised). The only improvement I want to see are the steps being condensed/cut in half, especially in the build phase. We don't need steps for each section. Just give us a drop down box for each section so we don't have to go back n forth all the time. ISM should just be one step not 6.

I quick work around if you’ve already done your ISM is if there are multiple sections when it gets to the ISM is jump to the last section and then hit “all sections done” and you move on to the “re-merch” screen.

Edit: to add someone already replied this. Carry on!

 

[IceIceBaby]

The amount of steps it takes just to retie a sidecap to another aisle is so stupid.