Mad,

I think assembly ordering is hit or miss. If I forget one week to scan those items I can miss an ordering date. I order "extra" depending on the rate of sale for the past weeks (I don't include the zero sale weeks) and how many modular homes I have to fill ( and if someone throws the pdq away ). The other issues I have are how close to the inventory date, assembly delivery dates, sales forecast and community events etc. Oh, and let's not forget when I have new modulars and they don't send the merchandise in before the mod drops or there is not enough merchandise to fill all the homes.

I am probably the order queen in the store for several reasons both in assembly, POS and Mclanes. Those reasons being:

 a) 75% of the time I work by myself so I would rather put up 6 or more boxes of the same item then have to work one box every other day or so (remember I'm 82....LOL....D-82)

b)I  need to have freight available to restock on certain days of the week.

c)My freight is not worked correctly, therefore I have to reorder.

d)I can't depend on vendors to work freight.

e)I don't like candy bars sitting on a shelf without a box.

f)I don't like warehouse outs!

g)I don't like missed sales.

h)I hate moving freight from one register to another to fill or moving batteries from department to another etc.

i)etc.

 

This message probably doesn't make sense but it does to me. I have a unique department.