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So tomorrow will be my first night closing by myself, but no one in the dept. could be assed to explain how to use RF guns to make a CAP sheet. Can someone please help, because I've been searching all over the place for a decent, straightforward set of instructions! I'm so stressed out! 



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Your department head sucks.

If you have an EUID, log in.


Hit 1 for CAO, then hit 9 for Misc. Menu. once that comes up pick 6 for CAP menu. Once in there, it will display 3 options.

The options are:
1. Prepare for today
2. Prepare for tomorrow
3. Thaw and sell

If your store is like mine, you do breakout at night. For this, you pick 2. Prepare for tomorrow. Then it will ask you if you want to create a new cap sheet, or resume an old one. Hit 1 to create a new one. Give it a name. Any name will do.

After that, you are ready to start cap!

Start scanning all the barcodes for any item you prepare at night, such as the french breads or the coffee cakes. Once you scan a barcode, hit the blue button, then 2. This will let you edit the listing. From there, punch it how many of the item you have out that is the correct date. Tomorrow is the 29th. You will be looking for items with the 2nd as the date (you will mark down 30s and skip 1sts). For example, if you have 2 collosal coffee cakes dated the 2nd, you will put 2 in the slot for the current on hand. Then cap will tell you how many collosal coffee cakes to break out. Hit the blue button and 5 to save it.

Continue until all items are scanned. Then hit escape, and tell it to 1. print the cap sheet. After that, go find your printer and there you go, cap is complete.

Hope that helped!!

If you have any more questions feel free to ask me in this thread. I've worked in the bakery for 3.5 years now. :)

 
 
 
 
 


-- Edited by 4hourrush on Sunday 28th of June 2015 08:09:46 PM

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Thank you so much! The only closer that knows what he's doing is on vacation for a week, so all of us barely trained new hires are having to figure it all out on the fly (probably making a ton of mistakes in the process). It's crazy!

Also, how do you do markdown tags? I know how to print labels just fine, but nobody explained markdown tags...

 

Man, and a customer asks for me to write on a cake, I'm gonna be in trouble D: I've had like 10 minutes of practice with writing in icing, total! 

 



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do you guys really follow cap?



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If by follow CAP you mean actually produce the number it automatically spits out, no usually not. It's usually a lower number of product that gets produced.



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To do markdowns go to 1 for CAO then 5 for markdowns.

We use cap as a guideline but don't follow it to a t. usually it will say way too many of some items, such as 17 packs of mini croissants. That's why i usually change the numbers a bit then just follow that.

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4hourrush wrote:

Your department head sucks.

If you have an EUID, log in.


Hit 1 for CAO, then hit 9 for Misc. Menu. once that comes up pick 6 for CAP menu. Once in there, it will display 3 options.

The options are:
1. Prepare for today
2. Prepare for tomorrow
3. Thaw and sell

If your store is like mine, you do breakout at night. For this, you pick 2. Prepare for tomorrow. Then it will ask you if you want to create a new cap sheet, or resume an old one. Hit 1 to create a new one. Give it a name. Any name will do.

After that, you are ready to start cap!

Start scanning all the barcodes for any item you prepare at night, such as the french breads or the coffee cakes. Once you scan a barcode, hit the blue button, then 2. This will let you edit the listing. From there, punch it how many of the item you have out that is the correct date. Tomorrow is the 29th. You will be looking for items with the 2nd as the date (you will mark down 30s and skip 1sts). For example, if you have 2 collosal coffee cakes dated the 2nd, you will put 2 in the slot for the current on hand. Then cap will tell you how many collosal coffee cakes to break out. Hit the blue button and 5 to save it.

Continue until all items are scanned. Then hit escape, and tell it to 1. print the cap sheet. After that, go find your printer and there you go, cap is complete.

Hope that helped!!

If you have any more questions feel free to ask me in this thread. I've worked in the bakery for 3.5 years now. :)

 
 
 
 
 



-- Edited by 4hourrush on Sunday 28th of June 2015 08:09:46 PM


 How come you don't count the ones dated the 1st?  We were told the only ones you don't count are the ones that are getting marked down that day.  Everything else is counted as Available For Sale (AFS).  Anyway, I've always hated CAP.  It's okay for items you only sell one or two of, but there are a lot of things that we have to bump up every day.  I end up having to put half the stuff in manually. 



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Maybe each store does it differently but we only count the ones that were baked fresh that day for CAP.

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4hourrush wrote:

Maybe each store does it differently but we only count the ones that were baked fresh that day for CAP.


 Is that just for bread items or do you do it that way for everything?  Things like pies and cookies get a longer shelf life than bread does.



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We have to do it for everything at our store



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Anonymous wrote:
4hourrush wrote:

Maybe each store does it differently but we only count the ones that were baked fresh that day for CAP.


 Is that just for bread items or do you do it that way for everything?  Things like pies and cookies get a longer shelf life than bread does.


 Adding to my own post:

Whichever way one does it, it's not accurate at all.  I can figure out what we need to bake in my head faster and more accurately than that stupid CAP program.  They say, "It's a tool to make your job easier."  It's a tool that doesn't work.  If I know for a fact we're going to need 24 loaves of Italian bread and CAP tells me we only need to bake 8, why should I go to all the trouble of changing the 8 to a 24 when I already know we needed 24 in the first place? 



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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
4hourrush wrote:

Maybe each store does it differently but we only count the ones that were baked fresh that day for CAP.


 Is that just for bread items or do you do it that way for everything?  Things like pies and cookies get a longer shelf life than bread does.


 Adding to my own post:

Whichever way one does it, it's not accurate at all.  I can figure out what we need to bake in my head faster and more accurately than that stupid CAP program.  They say, "It's a tool to make your job easier."  It's a tool that doesn't work.  If I know for a fact we're going to need 24 loaves of Italian bread and CAP tells me we only need to bake 8, why should I go to all the trouble of changing the 8 to a 24 when I already know we needed 24 in the first place? 


 YEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! CAP is the most unproductive system since key retailing. 



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Anonymous wrote:
4hourrush wrote:

Maybe each store does it differently but we only count the ones that were baked fresh that day for CAP.


 Is that just for bread items or do you do it that way for everything?  Things like pies and cookies get a longer shelf life than bread does.


 Oops, forgot about pies. Like in my example, we'd count everything 2nd and AFTER. So any pies baked today that are dated the 5th, those get counted too.

 
 
 
 
 


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Cap is a piece of crap. I wish they went back to the old way of just eyeing things and knowing what sells and what doesn't. I was just as good if not better!



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press f2 then f5 and right down what you need. cap is garbage



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Cap is a piece of crap. I wish they went back to the old way of just eyeing things and knowing what sells and what doesn't. I was just as good if not better!


 That's what most people do anyway.  CAP only works for items you only sell one or two of.  Anything you sell a lot of you have to bump the number up where it tells you how many you need to bake.  If something goes on sale, it takes CAP a month to realize it and increase the quantity it says we're suppose to bake.  It then takes another month for CAP to decrease the quantity it says we're suppose bake when the item goes off sale.  The problem with CAP is they're trying to predict human behavior, and you can't do that.  Just because you sell 8 loaves of Italian bread the last 3 Mondays in a row does meant you're going to sell 8 loaves on the 4th Monday.



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In my experience, this might be just because i'm in a smaller store though, we have to lower the numbers, not raise them. Unless an item is on sale or something.

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The problem with CAP is . . . you can't do that.

So, CAP is crap?

 

 



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