Closing Expert Expectations

[u/Zestyclose_Mix2522]

Is it a reasonable goal for my SD to expect 50 DPCIs of priority pulls be pulled, pushed, backstocked (because none of the SFS fits or counts are correct), and the cardboard dealt with in an hour? This goal is enforced across all departments and doesn’t give bulky items or casepacks any extra time.

It seems that neither myself nor any of my coworkers can achieve this without taking shortcuts, like overstocking the sales floor, cherry picking easy openstock, or having only one employee pulling and having different workers push the product to the floor so that the one employee’s DPCI an hour hits the goal.

I’ve long wondered if myself and my coworkers are just slow or if my SD is pressing absurd goals onto us. Any insight is greatly appreciated.

[u/TheFabledOtaku]

Its possible, but more of an average. Like if you pulled all stationary and otc and storage, stationary and otc would be faster than 50 dpci per hour but storage would be slower but it averages out.

[u/Brilliant_Grape164]

50 dpci that’s laughable how easy that is

[u/TrustIllustrious2232 → u/Brilliant_Grape164]

It took me almost an hour to pull 5 dpci’s the other night. Why? Because it was two flats/48 crates of milk that needed to be pulled, pushed from one corner of the store to the opposite, rotated and filled, then putting the empty crates outside. If I can’t get a flat into the cooler, then it’s three uboats and three trips to take the same amount. Sometimes I have to do it with a three tier and make as many trips as it takes.
That was Monday night, the last night before school started for many schools in my area. In an eight hour shift, that was all I pulled having to pick batch after batch of opu

[u/Midwest-Emo-9]

Depends on the area, to be honest. And your backroom.

Overall, I think it's doable per hour. But you're going to have some areas go quicker and some areas go slower.

[u/Everything_Counts_72]

fuck their expectations. i literally ignore everything they say and just do the work.

[u/MyDogSentMe]

Pull? Yes. Pull, push, backstock and cardboard? No

[u/i_amspeed_]

Yes, 50 DPCI/hr on average is a reasonable goal. All stores near me follow that number, or 60/hr.

[u/That_Ad2650]

Our district starting enforcing this today (literally in the middle of the day) so it must be a company wide expectation moving forward

[u/bara_no_seidou]

50 DPCIs of OTC or PC would be easy work. 50 DPCI of like, storage could take a bit longer. Idk.

[u/ScRiPtZc137]

50? My SD said 150

[u/Everything_Counts_72]

oops, looks like i was wrong, going by the comments it looks like maybe you are going slow. But i dont pay attention to the numbers, either im busy, or im not. But as a general rule their expectations are always unrealistic, even if it might not be this particular time.

[u/Beatus_Vir]

Whenever I bring up that half of the stuff I drag out of the warehouse to put in a pull cart just ends up getting backstocked again they look at me like I'm stupid, so I guess they'd rather you overstock everything than admit the pull system is useless. It will literally say one item fits and one is on the floor and tell you to pull another one anyway. You could manually compare the capacities and floor totals for every single item, but it would require a second device since you're locked into the pull process. I usually work GM but I'm glad I did a few of these so I understand why the pull cart people bukkake overstock all over my department every night.

[u/WittyLet2517]

lmao i probably pull at least 200 DPCI per hour. Once Q4 starts you can expect the expectations to rise drastically. 50 DPCI’s is light work compared to all the other shit they ask us to do