overhead organization, purge/sku packdown rant
THD needs to be more realistic and associates need to understand that bays have depth that needs to be used. besides common sense there is a sop/guideline that clearly states to use depth with like skus. also, states no loose product, cut case or open cases in overhead, which there are some exceptions especially if its boxed shaped and can be stacked for loose products.
boxed product in cases if you take some out take rest out and stack individually you are just wasting space ie faucets, flushmounts, lanterns, the bigger air filters, etc
loose product at least in our division needs to be in totes predominantly clear ones not boxes or cut case boxes. especially if its loose liquid products. cause those cases are unstable when only few left in them not sure if they should be mixed though lol we will find out someday if plumbing chemicals can share a tote.
commons sense also should be a factor keeping bay products separate ie bay 11 not mixed with 12, 13,17 same way for no home product that has to go into the bay where its gonna be cause no home bay is completely full
purge packdown needs improvement especially realistic/common sense options: bays have volume are limited by space not all the product will fit unless you know how to utilize space effectively/efficiently. first, bringing everything down unless absolutely necessary is inefficient unrealistic ie 35 subpumps that donit packout and no room into the bay where they actually belong. the quota/metric system flagging full bays and not understanding layout of the store spatiall ie cannot fit 50 cases of cheap filters in home bay cause no room since top overhead is being use for water heaters because water overheads are unsafe to utilize for them. lots more partial cases in overheads because of this, which doesn't benefit the store cause case is still in overhead now unstable wasting space and shelf is overflowing sloppy.
have i missed anything besides grating/boards mixed in overhead or sales shelf bays that should have boards have grating because of the product is unstable on grating but not boards. we throw away hundreds of boards every year instead of saving them to create overhead space. kind of hypocritical we save with cardboard bales but we throw away lots of lumber/boards that could be reutilized.