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

[FlowTeamChick]

There is no room for intuition, judgement, trial and error, leaving a problem aside for the moment and brainstorming solutions while working on something else--all of this would certainly make any data on the duration of specific tasks useless.

My brain works a lot more linearly than yours, but this still rankles. When I'm done setting a POG, it looks and works great (or as great as it can, given how some of the POG designs aren't very good at all). And the TL who oversees this work says that I'm pretty fast at it.
But, I work more like how you describe - more intuitively, sometimes starting in the middle if that makes sense, not gathering the last of needed fixtures until the end because I've been using ones that shift out of other sections, etc.
This is yet another of those things that works well in theory, not so much in practice. Makes me wonder if the HQ people who come up with these things have ever actually worked at the store level or, if they have, how long ago it was.

 

[Alexbegt]

I remember our PML going at a shelf with a Sawzall to make one that fit around a support beam, then crimping the edges so they wouldn't cut anyone.
Then it took months for us to get them to change the plans to in to account that they had made us set products where the beam was.

Last time I tried to get a new POG designed for an aisle with a pole I got told “just adjust the spacing of the items and move them around”.

Pre remodel the hanging picture frame aisle had a pole directly in the middle of it - I was like “sure there’s enough broom to move spacing” and just tried my best to make it fit

 

[BKop16]

I was impressed during the sporting goods move that they sent us a POG that specifically accounted for the pole.

 

[jenna]

I was impressed during the sporting goods move that they sent us a POG that specifically accounted for the pole.

So it *is* possible.

Huh.

 

[gsa4lyfe]

So it *is* possible.

Huh.

I’ve always found you have to re chatbot every now and again. They build pogs off previous pogs so typically when I chatbot a pole the next year or two of pogs account for the pole.

 

[BKop16]

So I've noticed both the storage and elf transition guides specifically state that the Workload Calendar does not include pulls and backstock and that an additional TM should be scheduled to support.

 

[Formerplano]

But, I work more like how you describe - more intuitively, sometimes starting in the middle if that makes sense, not gathering the last of needed fixtures until the end because I've been using ones that shift out of other sections, etc.

This is how I set. Sometimes I'll start with a middle section instead of the first because it just makes sense the way it all moves around. Plano is fun because it is a giant puzzle. Yes, I have to set everything correctly but sometimes it doesn't work and we need to make decisions to make things work. I'm not calling a TL every time product or signing doesn't fit, I'm just finding a way to make it happen.

On paper, having a standard for the order to set a pog sounds good to people who have never set before. But anyone who has set will tell you they rarely set the same way twice.

I won't hate a system before I see it. But I don't see this working very well.

 

[BKop16]

There is a 3 year plan about where they want the tool to go including auto-preties, pictures of fixtures and ISM, creating the PPA as you set, and eventually alerting you to when ISM needs to be built/put up first. I know a few of those have been mentioned already on here. Just seeing that makes be willing to give it the benefit of the doubt when it does finally go live nation wide.