Frozen Food Lead

Date: Aug 21, 2016

Frozen Food Lead

Date: Aug 21, 2016

Venture around other stores and ask those frozen people what's expected of frozen leads. Ask how many pallets they get per night and what their time frame for throwing the freight, facing the department, and ordering takes.

It's mainly about getting your own rhythm going and following your own solid routine. The more you do something, the more accurate you become at it, and the more faster as well. It's overwhelming in the beginning but just find your rhythm and routine and just master it night by night, month by month. Good luck.

Date: Aug 21, 2016

The DDP gives times for running the stock. Divide # of cases by hours allowed. That gives you a rough estimate of cases per hour. You can't really go by pallet. Some are 4' tall and others are 8' tall.

Open Enterprise Citrix, Internet explorer.

Hover over Applications, select DDP(daily planner).

Select daily DDP, Frozen. Make sure case count is the same/close to what ISP says. Nothing you can do about it but it is possible to get short changed on hours.

Select the truck you want to see the run time on. That does not include conditioning, ordering or receiving. The WWP(weekly planner) gives time for ordering, conditioning and receiving. You don't get time for sorting if anything like grocery.

Most people I have seen that work frozen run the icecream pallet first because it is everyones least favorite. My store used to have 3.5 pallets 3 days a week. I haven't unloaded their truck in years so I don't know what they are receiving now.

Date: Aug 21, 2016

Anonymous wrote:
The DDP gives times for running the stock. Divide # of cases by hours allowed. That gives you a rough estimate of cases per hour. You can't really go by pallet. Some are 4' tall and others are 8' tall.

Also, I think the WWP gives time for building ends and running shippers.

Use the search function for other old frozen leadposts.

http://krogerforum.activeboard.com/t59577130/frozen-dept-lead/

I think we have several members familiar with the Frozen Department.

DeltaGrocery · Guru

It's very store dependent. It depends on your truck schedule, average load, etc. Make sure you are scheduling hours appropriately. Hour and a half per pallet is about average. Production dictates 50 cases per hour. So if you're the only one in the department in a night, you should be throwing 300+ or about 3-3.5 full pallets in addition to cleanup/conditioning/replenishing etc.

If you give an average load size, and days that they come in I can help you plan out a schedule.

Most importantly is keeping things organized and dealing with mispicks/slow movers ASAP so it doesn't snowball and you're left with a ton of work that you'll never have time to do. Scanning residual is a must, correct BOH is a must. If you're not a high volume store(700k+) it'll be important to keep close attention to displays to make sure you aren't left hung with a lot of product to deal with at the end of the sale. Pretty much the only thing I'm not worried with having a lot of at the end of a sale is Kroger ice cream, everything else usually only sells when it's on sale.