I try to purge our open stock cereal once every 6wks or so. I'd like to do it more often, but it's hard to find the time. Although I normally don't do a real purge- I just do my ghetto version of research- go scan all the cereal that's super low, write down the backroom location for each DPCI, pull, then push. I have VERY little, if any backstock from this process...so it's a clunky process, but it works well enough.
As a BRTM it's impossible to come across a mydevice in my store, and if I asked someone to make a batch for me it would never happen...so I do what I can.
Also, kind of a random question, but this got me thinking about it:
How full do you guys keep your market endcaps? I'm trying to figure out how to balance "filling" double locations, while also avoiding having 5 million boxes of cereal/cans of soup come back when they kill an endcap. Is there a way to see when an endcap ends? So like...We can push to capacity for the first 2/3's of an endcaps life, but then stop pushing there a week before it's set to come down, in attempt to minimize the amount of product that will come back when it's taken down?
I'm a total stickler for getting as much product on the floor as possible, but obviously I don't want to just be making my workload heavier in the end by pushing too much to temporary locations.
