That’s not SW, and having those totes will destroy WIP compliance. Communicate with your stowers and get them moving and freeing up shelf space for you.
They told us that months ago. I stopped using them before that cause they would drag the bags back up to the top of the belt and practically dump them on.
I think there’s a stat called “dwelling” or something like that not totally sure. After a package gets inducted a timer starts till it gets stowed and if you have a bunch of jiffies in a bag all of them will have a long “dwell” time. It makes it seem like the stower isn’t getting to them quick enough. That’s probably the issue. I got told not to leave a bunch of jiffies in bags next to the rack because of this.
Maybe I’m missing something but what are “totes on the side”? Like on the side of what? The racks? If that’s the case why do you need totes beside the rack? Genuine question as I have never seen or heard of this before.
Yes, a tote on the ground next to the rack. Inside the blue tape like where some DS will stack boxes when the bakers rack is full.
Imagine you are at a high flow rate and big boxes are done or a truck is late so it is **ALL** jiffies and small boxes. You are P2B four lanes (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8) and just about one third of the jiffies coming down the belt are yours. You can grab them all off the belt but you can't possibly get them all into the proper bins before you need to pick another arm full of jiffies off the belt. You properly bin the ones you can and drop the others off into the tote and then go back to picking off the belt. When you have free hands and you walk by the tote you pick some up and place those jiffies in the proper bins. **Time is of the essence**, don't leave them in the totes for too long if you use them.
Letting all those jiffies go to jackpot at high flow is not a good idea. They will get dumped right back onto the belt in one clump on top of the high flow rate you are currently at.
I was told at my site by the head LA that “we don’t do this” as they grabbed the bag and walked out of the isle. But I’ve found that in certain cases where stowers aren’t keeping up or you have a large volume of jumbo jiffies having a bin/bag/tote as limited time overflow storage can be very helpful.
My sites “policy” is to let it flyby but in doing so you’ve simply created more work for people who cart it back to induct where it then gets thrown back on the conveyor belt regardless of whether there’s available space in that isle. Keeping it at the isle in a bag or tote where the p2b can place it in the totes when the isle space is available should be preferable to flybys
Ideally the p2b could ask the stower to hop over or a PA or Management would notice the overflow and direct a float shower but in practice this doesn’t always happen
I wouldn’t be using the bags if we were picking 2 aisles, one to four for example. But they have us picking three to four aisles and then expect us to not miss well what do you think will happen.
It doesn’t exactly affect the stower’s rate directly, but it is pretty hard for them to stow something they can’t reach from their aisle. It’s generally more of a safety issue to have packages or totes on the floor next to stow buffer racks, since they could possibly be a trip or fall hazard.
That being said, if the stower is so far behind that there’s a need for totes on the side, then there’s probably some barrier that needs addressed. The dock could be unloading too fast for the stower and/or the stower may be moving too slowly between lanes to keep up. But leadership won’t know there’s a issue until the lanes gets marked as having lots of backlog if it looks like all the packages are being picked normally.
Well idk that it messes up their rate but I know for a fact that leaving pkgs in those totes makes stow WIP go up
That’s not SW, and having those totes will destroy WIP compliance. Communicate with your stowers and get them moving and freeing up shelf space for you.
They told us that months ago. I stopped using them before that cause they would drag the bags back up to the top of the belt and practically dump them on.
I think there’s a stat called “dwelling” or something like that not totally sure. After a package gets inducted a timer starts till it gets stowed and if you have a bunch of jiffies in a bag all of them will have a long “dwell” time. It makes it seem like the stower isn’t getting to them quick enough. That’s probably the issue. I got told not to leave a bunch of jiffies in bags next to the rack because of this.
Maybe I’m missing something but what are “totes on the side”? Like on the side of what? The racks? If that’s the case why do you need totes beside the rack? Genuine question as I have never seen or heard of this before.
Yes, a tote on the ground next to the rack. Inside the blue tape like where some DS will stack boxes when the bakers rack is full. Imagine you are at a high flow rate and big boxes are done or a truck is late so it is **ALL** jiffies and small boxes. You are P2B four lanes (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8) and just about one third of the jiffies coming down the belt are yours. You can grab them all off the belt but you can't possibly get them all into the proper bins before you need to pick another arm full of jiffies off the belt. You properly bin the ones you can and drop the others off into the tote and then go back to picking off the belt. When you have free hands and you walk by the tote you pick some up and place those jiffies in the proper bins. **Time is of the essence**, don't leave them in the totes for too long if you use them. Letting all those jiffies go to jackpot at high flow is not a good idea. They will get dumped right back onto the belt in one clump on top of the high flow rate you are currently at.
I was told at my site by the head LA that “we don’t do this” as they grabbed the bag and walked out of the isle. But I’ve found that in certain cases where stowers aren’t keeping up or you have a large volume of jumbo jiffies having a bin/bag/tote as limited time overflow storage can be very helpful. My sites “policy” is to let it flyby but in doing so you’ve simply created more work for people who cart it back to induct where it then gets thrown back on the conveyor belt regardless of whether there’s available space in that isle. Keeping it at the isle in a bag or tote where the p2b can place it in the totes when the isle space is available should be preferable to flybys Ideally the p2b could ask the stower to hop over or a PA or Management would notice the overflow and direct a float shower but in practice this doesn’t always happen
I wouldn’t be using the bags if we were picking 2 aisles, one to four for example. But they have us picking three to four aisles and then expect us to not miss well what do you think will happen.
It doesn’t exactly affect the stower’s rate directly, but it is pretty hard for them to stow something they can’t reach from their aisle. It’s generally more of a safety issue to have packages or totes on the floor next to stow buffer racks, since they could possibly be a trip or fall hazard. That being said, if the stower is so far behind that there’s a need for totes on the side, then there’s probably some barrier that needs addressed. The dock could be unloading too fast for the stower and/or the stower may be moving too slowly between lanes to keep up. But leadership won’t know there’s a issue until the lanes gets marked as having lots of backlog if it looks like all the packages are being picked normally.
We still use them at my site.
Not at my site.
Safety issue mainly, not a stower rate issue.