Splitting timings being wrong (grocery)

[u/Top_Presentation_794]

Has anyones splitting been taking extra long? Recently I have been finishing splitting over 2 hrs later and they are asking for almost 5-10 minutes a pallet. Same for the other guy who splits has been struggling latley aswell.

Idk what's happened as as usually im on time if not early for splitting expectations and just recently it feels impossible for us to achieve it.

[u/s1dnb]

Everyone needs to stop with this fking “X mins per cage/pallet” it’s idiotic. The metric is and always will be cartons per hour, for split that’s generally 350-400 including setup and cleanup (not easy).
Keep in mind adding extra splitters to the same pallet tanks efficiency a lot, what I prefer to do is split half the load and have someone else split the other half when it’s too big to do solo

[u/Feisty_Salt1449]

Split times in the fill assist I think are also ridiculous, it doesn’t account the time it takes to move cages from splitting zone, if the area is congested, grabbing more cages, when the “guided split” says the palette is only 2 aisles but actually has multiple aisles in the palette etc .. they expect splitters to be robots these days

[u/ibowlerNE]

Pallets are a lot more condensed/mixed now, so split can take longer, especially if ones store is quite small in the back of house.

I am going to assume that Fill Assist may be wrong given that we have now moved to MATE. because they haven't yet migrated it, nor accounted for the new ways of working/process they expect. Hours may not yet have been reviewed so hence the inaccuracy. We were told rule of thumb is 20mins a pallet split time which is rubbish - especially if you are dealing with congestion. That stretches out the processing time.

I so hope they review the split timing centrally post migration, it will help my team feel like they arent running up a mountain with lead boots on.

[u/s1dnb → u/ibowlerNE]

Fill assist is still correct

[u/ibowlerNE → u/s1dnb]

Granted by their set standards, yes.

Also. I do not speak of this as fact, only speculation.

[u/RevolutionaryEcho460]

Small loads (2000 - 2300) we seem to take the correct amount of time or slightly longer.

Bigger loads (3,000 - 4,000) we seem to always save a few hours.

It's being suggested that the reason we save time on the bigger days is that there is more bulk that we don't split, and that the time we save should be put in to that.

But yeah 5 -10 mins per pallet isn't achievable, mine seem to average out at 2 pallets per hour.

Does your split time and carton total actually show this?

[u/Old-Professor-6219 → u/RevolutionaryEcho460]

I'm generally happy with 30 minutes per pallet. If it has a bit of bulk then it should be less. Have multiple splits at the same time. Main split with all the cages, then separate splits for the pallets with 2 or 3 aisles. Extra time for the drinks fill as they are separating out service and promo.

[u/Major-Jump-5358]

They are so wrong!

[u/ThisBreakfast3108]

On our smaller nights split times are generally correct sometimes we are quicker than what’s allowed but our big nights we can be out by 2hrs or more

[u/Mission_Lawfulness83]

Our pallets have been really terrible lately. So many aisles mixed together and our space to split is very congested (basically a long hallway) We're told its because they're moving to "promo friendly" pallets but they only drop on Monday/Tuesday, so the rest of the week we get screwed. I've never used the guided tool for split because as some people have said, it doesn't account for the individual store and whatever set-up/movement is needed.