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Surely though there were human people in each store who could have helped them with this, you know the ones that have been ordering the stocks and fulling the s
by ljf 9y ago
Surely though there were human people in each store who could have helped them with this, you know the ones that have been ordering the stocks and fulling the shelves for years?
- cratermoon 9y agoYou might think that, but reality is more complicated, and unwinding from the new inventory management system could be no better than sticking out it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189733
- thrill 9y agoOne might think that such a new process could have been rolled in gradually - i.e. start with 20% backroom overhead, and begin reducing a percent a week until there is indication of overreaction. Why jump into the deep end of the just-in-time logistics pool right away?
- Spooky23 9y agoBecause “transformation” like this only meets its ROI nut if you adopt the religion in full. This is all about eliminating a few hundred man-hours a week. Instead of having 2-3 guys unloading trucks and staging inventory, the whole staff is engaged, and is wasting a lot of time unless the trucks are loaded perfectly. It’s insane. Instead of the fish or cheese guy selling me high margin product, he’s hunting for cartons. When I worked at a computer store in college, they did something similar, and same store weekday sales of premium products (which drove profitabilty) dropped 25%. But they saved 160 man hours of labor, or about $1,600, which was much less than the lost sales.