I was wondering if anyone can tell me why some items are ordered in? I am talking about items that have BOH above their MIN, with little to no movement history, and no specials going on.
Say like BOH was 9, and MIN was 6, and ALLOC was 6, with 1 item sold in 7 days and 3 sold in 28 days. If PAK is 6, why would such an item sometimes come in?
I'm not a manager or supervisor, but I really feel dedicated to reduce backstock becasue we have way too much, with silly things coming in sometimes, and no time to run the tons of backstock we have in the store.
The general reply I get is we should check our orders, which I understand, but shouldn't CAO make it easier for us rather than harder?
If you do a Control O(letter O), sometimes there is a note to the right of it. RI, TOS, etc. RI means Replacement Item. While at that screen, press ENTER. It will sometimes display the meaning of the letters. Make sure it was ordered. It might actually be a mispick. During the Flu season, you might get a distro of a case of Flu and Cold medicine. I think sometimes someone is trying to get product out of the warehouse so they force it to the store for us to put in backstock.
If you do a Function 9, there is an MDS #. My general rule is to keep it around 3. Minimum Daily Supply. You have enough product in the building for 3 days. We have a truck atleast every 2 days. You can lower the minimum in order to make that number lower. You should doublecheck with your Department manager before altering the Minimums. Since DR/GM orders are different, you might need the MDS # higher than 3.
I do not work in DR/GM but have been asked to start checking the diaper order while doing my order. I guess they have been receiving too many unneeded diapers and no one is there when the order opens and closes. I think I am going to try and print the open order. Go into the aisle and check everything on the order. Why does there need to be so many varieties?
As for checking the KMP items, there are a lot of little things to check on the order. I am not sure how I would approach that order.
I was wondering if anyone can tell me why some items are ordered in? I am talking about items that have BOH above their MIN, with little to no movement history, and no specials going on.
Say like BOH was 9, and MIN was 6, and ALLOC was 6, with 1 item sold in 7 days and 3 sold in 28 days. If PAK is 6, why would such an item sometimes come in?
I'm not a manager or supervisor, but I really feel dedicated to reduce backstock becasue we have way too much, with silly things coming in sometimes, and no time to run the tons of backstock we have in the store.
The general reply I get is we should check our orders, which I understand, but shouldn't CAO make it easier for us rather than harder?
Any help would be great. Thanks.
In your example, the MIN is pretty high. If the shelf only holds 6(ALLOC) and it is full, once somebody buys one BOH becomes 5 which is lower than minimum and orders a case PAK 6. Then you have BOH 11 shelf only holds 6 still so 5 in backstock. Once those 5 in backstock sell plus one that is one the shelf, the cycle will repeat itself. Basically all items should not have minimums that are greater than ALLOC - PAK unless the shelf does not hold enough product to get you between trucks. MIN should probably be more like 2 or 3 in your example. Usually you shouldn't go lower than 3 on anything unless you almost never sell it.
Talk to your dept. manager or whoever does the ordering. There's a whole slew of reasons. Shippers can be a problem, for one. You'll get those in regardless of what the BOH is for that product, and that's where a lot of our backstock comes from. (We get so many candy shippers, it's ridiculous.) They're rolling out a new ordering system soon that will hopefully help with this, but we'll see.
Greensheet and sales could be a reason too. If you ever get a ton of the same product, it's probably for display. It could also be a special order.
But yeah, you can check on the gun if something looks off. Control + O (letter, not number) will give you the order history and Function 3 will show you the movement. These are the most useful, but there's a bunch of other things you can check too. Ask your manager to show you how. Also make sure you're scanning any backstock when you're working truck, if you're not already. It helps a lot.
