verylittlehelps

The biggest problem with this system, and Tesco in general is this. They want to be like Aldi and Lidl, but cannot let go of their 'Tesconess'.
The changes could have been implemented years ago, but by putting layers of complexity into the operation instead of stripping it right back as the German leaders do means that this system is doomed to failure. As a good example, I could grab the information for a shrink meeting in five minutes flat, hold the meeting and move on in 20 minutes, next steps were achieved and easy to follow. I walked into the office before I left to find the guy taking over Stock pulling his hair out as the SD has 'produced' a new shrink board with four times the amount of info I had to deal with! It really is a great time to leave!!!!

Aldi don't do shrink meetings its a waste of time. No one in store can change a stock level like tesco do daily on 1000s of lines.

Yes madness, it is, in the world of Trsco, umm...
Madness!!!!!

Stock Control won't exist as a department within a year, it will be incorporated into the routines of each individual dept.  . Wages will be scaled right back too. If you are a stock and admin manager its not worth staying. The role will soon disappear.

stock and admin are now all of fresh as well in our store. So yes i agree it will happen in department. But customer assistants changing stock levels is just madness in my opinion. Especially when you can have the same stock in 4 of 5 different places throughout the stores. and will a part time 10-15 hr a week worker really know or care to find it all?

Fresh stock control isn't a thing in our store any more apart from 2 people to do counts and gap across the week, this changed about 4 weeks ago.  Fresh has now gained the 10 member of stock control job 14 staff at the moment they are all on the same shifts they were doing, and fresh themselves now do the scanning  and reductions.  I've been told that stores are being changed weekly to to work this way.  Full roll out in June sometime.  It's saving a lot of hours across the week.

You mean the announcement of the changes coming in June or it being rolled out?

I've not heard of an official announcement yet but our SM has said the stock control routines will go into the various departments (non food, grocery, fresh) with stock as its own department no longer existing within the next 12 months. He also seems confident wages will go with colleague administration being expanded slightly to cover exceptions/new contracts etc. Holidays etc will all be approved via the new app so no need for a wage clerk to be there.

Makes you wonder why they kept the stock control managers on when they knew these changes were coming down the line. I know the job14 changes have been very successful in the trial stores. So its not like its even been a secret.

Funnily enough, admin Colleagues are exempt from being moved on the Scheduler but wage colleagues are not. That is probably the sign something is coming.

Quote from: madness on 01-05-23, 05:44PMstock and admin are now all of fresh as well in our store. So yes i agree it will happen in department. But customer assistants changing stock levels is just madness in my opinion. Especially when you can have the same stock in 4 of 5 different places throughout the stores. and will a part time 10-15 hr a week worker really know or care to find it all?

Couldn't agree more. Stock Control should have always been a specialist skill as its not that easy. I cannot wait for Sally from checkouts who has never counted stock in her life being asked to search for and then count in full 172 cases of prosecco at xmas.. 

Personally after being messed about by this company for the past 4 years I can't wait.....don't come crying to me is all I will say.I know what to look for,do and when to do it.If this is happening f*** the place.

Quote from: Eunnii on 01-05-23, 04:22PMStock Control won't exist as a department within a year, it will be incorporated into the routines of each individual dept.  . Wages will be scaled right back too. If you are a stock and admin manager its not worth staying. The role will soon disappear.

If it is disappearing they might aswell stay and get redundancy

@bobmay there will be no redundancy as everyone on same contract

The contract that seems to have the usual faces doing more than their fair share and other people announcing I haven't got much to do today and that's their shift until they go home.  If the s*** houses want rid of people do you honestly believe they won't get rid.  The contracts a sham for fleecing out of people as much as they can in their shift ..... not everybody though.

Has there been trials in stores having stock control into departments or is it all guess work?

Won't work your still expecting someone to run it and not be paid for it.  They should knock it in the head and stop pissing the staff about.....by the way our warehouse is full, osi wanted done 3 times a week not as company wants, delivery never completed, counts never completed, gap scan taking forever on days its done, job 14 struggling as having to cover pi it's a joke.

Open to manipulation...stock won't be counted off by the department or if it is will be counted back on by the manager. If the warehouse's are chocca now, wait till they start skimming on the routines...token gap scans, guessed at counts because nobody will have the time and as the buck now stops with the department, no "lazy  stock controllers" to blame 

Merchandising sits under the umbrella of stock control - will merchandisers be on the chopping block as well? We relevant departments doing their own merchandising?

It has always made sense to be that way, but as a merchandiser I feel I should start updating my CV

Merchandising team in my store are the 2 most useless workers in shop.  They wouldn't be missed

@king1999 if stock control not working in your store then thats stock manager,dept managers failings,dept manager should be tasking the stock manager to complete routines as they impact productivity daily on filling.

Yes totally agree .it's not stock control not working its everything else.

Quote from: Eunnii on 01-05-23, 04:22PMStock Control won't exist as a department within a year, it will be incorporated into the routines of each individual dept.  . Wages will be scaled right back too. If you are a stock and admin manager its not worth staying. The role will soon disappear.

Big announcement coming in week 12 about Stock and Wages.

Removal of Tesc0 Stores Admin
Role on Work and Pay

Planning thing for week sixteen under selected activity - nice to know they don't even attempt to hide role decimation anymore 

A little birdie was over heard saying that wages admin was going to take over the cash office role.

Quote from: whatajoke2019 on 07-05-23, 07:32PMRemoval of Tesc0 Stores Admin
Role on Work and Pay

Planning thing for week sixteen under selected activity - nice to know they don't even attempt to hide role decimation anymore 

What does this mean?

If they are cutting stock control, wages and admin then what was the point in keeping a stock and admin manager? This store is a joke the amount of changes they are pushing through within such a small time scale is very worrying