Donations appreciated! Venmo @TimOates93 The Warehouse Series Join Discord / discord My most popular question answered in this video and it does not involve physically moving faster.
Employers don’t help. They keep preaching speed speed speed but never tell you that by learning to build properly, the speed comes without even trying.
Agree your training week isn't about speed it's about building. Now before I even start selecting I have the pallet half way built in my head. Learn the cases and learn the product. Your absolutely right take pride in whatever you do
In my DC we have a lot of cases that just won't be the same from week to week, and the slot you start at and finish at each trip is going to be different
I can walk 110% It's a million and one ways to order select. Every selector is different. Some will care about stacking and percentage. Some care more about speed than stacking. This new guy asked me how do I walk and overlap him with orders. Simply, the more you pick cases in a warehouse, mentally you know what you're going to get and you have to set yourself up for the next case. The first picture is a dairy order. Most warehouses with dairy, the first 2 or 3 aisles the cases are going to match. Don't leave gaps between cases. If its a gap, turn a case or 2 around and close it. A few cases will be slightly higher than others. Always put taller cases on the corner of your pallet. Once you learn your warehouse and orders, your stacking will become your speed. This job is 75% mental and 25% physical. Once you get to the end of dairy, where you get all the small cases just throw it on top of your pallet. No need to stack that.
@@brilavie3809 It’s called a check digit. Every warehouse is different. If you’re new, someone should’ve did a walk through to show you. If not,ask. It’s usually a 2 digit number, next to the slot numbers, all on the same sticker for the slot. The more orders you do, you will start to memorize some check digits that’ll give your % small boost.
Just started at a week and thanks to your advice I'm going to try and apply it hit 86% my first run but fell down to 52% also due to equipment malfunction but I think from now on I'll come in a little earlier so I can be prepared for everything
It’s good if you’re under 40. I’ve been doing it for 7 years and my arms are torn up. Went back to school and got a degree so I don’t have to do that shit work again
It’s really just learning how to stack for any new selectors out there. I still run from Time to time but honestly you do it every day and you’ll get better
Agreed, figured this out early on. Focus on internalizing and visualizing what a nice pallet looks like, as you get used to the boxes and knowing where things go you will naturally get faster. But speed is not the priority in training
I'd just like to ad, as far as times/percentages go, make sure your not pissing time away through out your shifts. I'm talking about long breaks/lunches, pausing during an assignment to play with your phone, talk to somebody, daydream, rubber neck, etc. All these little things add up (a few seconds here, a few minutes there) and your just shooting yourself in the foot, and you have to bust your ass to make this time up. Once you button up all these areas your giving away/losing time, your percentages/times will be better, and come easier.
Great video tim, that dairy pass almost didn't make it haha. I stress what you say to every selector that I train/help. Usaully the best/highest performing selectors have one thing in common they know how to build. They also work smart not hard, 70% of my cases are on the odd side of the aisle. Their jack stays on that side and they walk the 30% to their pallet rather than moving their jack back and forth.
You guys need the llop with 3 cages on the back setup. The ppt and pallet setup is old now. All those problems are because of the whole ppt and pallet setup. It's old. With the llop and cages setup it's best to build your base and then build outside inwards. I drive a toyota reach flt and always help the new pickers.
Jack placement is the most overlooked factor when it comes to speed. To save your body you should be picking up the case as close to pallet your stacking on as possible. You should be able to pick up the case and put it down without having to walk at all almost. I have super good stacking and I pull a 160-180 everyday for max incentive
Personally, I’ve found that I am able to achieve over 100% by stacking the product on the same side from which I am picking. So if I have to pick 20 boxes of open case grapes, I will stack all 20 on the one side that I pick from And fill in the other side with other product that I pick on other side . This will sometimes produce questionable pallets but unfortunately that’s sometimes the price we have to pay to achieve standards.
The problem in the warehouse im at is there are huge quantities and one side of the aisle is just inbound reserve stock. The best technique available in that aisle is to put the products on the other side of the pallet and work inwards.
I'm glad I found this channel I'm a new order selector worker at European imports sysco going take a test on getting certified on pallets jack I used work at hidden valley as palletizing 1 year and I work for FedEx 5 years
Hey bruvs I just became a selector at Sysco bout a month a good it’s good I love it can’t complain, just the constant thing I get is my pallets are stacking wrong and to be honest they come out like some of those bad one you showed 🤣🤣 some people tell me you gonna get it eventually and some others be like you got it or you don’t but I notice that at least at least maybe maybe for every 10 batches I get maybe 3 tops 4 looks ok maybe 5😂 come out pretty bad like the ones in the picture but at times I catch myself just stacking natural to me like one of those Good ones you posted they come along nicely sometimes but I do get easily discouraged sometimes I’m I ever gonna get to a point where it can be perfect? Just a thought in my mind I have since I’ve been working sorry , hope to hear from you thnx God bless
The biggest thing is when something works stick with it. Like in my videos with my work I place cases the same way every time. Once in awhile I might have to change something to get it to work but for the most part it's the same. Repetition is key but only if you're taking mental notes of what's working
Hey can you do a video on the talkman head set vocalic like the tricks in the tips to using it I have the stacking and speed and packed it's just the headset lol great video too
for real. I’m at es3 (c&s) in york pa and I’ll get orders that are say 2 pallets like 340-380 cases for idk 27-32 minutes (only my second day so don’t really know exact times) - anyways, my first location might be 156 cases of campbells noodle soup..so I need like 6-7 layers of it .. then next location is another like 50-70 cans .. then my second pallet may start the same way with the first location for my other one being 130 of something .. I’m on the smaller stockier side of things and I’m in “tier” selecting which is more mass stacking layers of the same stuff rather then building a jenga pallet. I’m taught to build a wall away from me (say I need 6 layers) I build up 3 high and then fill it all in .. then build up another 3 high but rotate the pattern to lock it in. Having trouble grabbing 2-3 12 packs of cans in one grab and throwing them to the other side of the pallet. Got a 78 my first day and was down at a 67 my 2nd day 😭 (I’m also pretty out of shape as I was on forklift the last 4 years at my previous job)
@@TheWarehouseSeries thanks for the encouragement man. My trainer said the same thing. He said at one point I was at an 88 .. but as the night goes on my stamina falls off hard..along with running into stoppages and miscues that I’m not good at resolving without a question or two first yet. He drives around and checks on me and the other 2 trainees but yeah. With all that said .. I seriously feel like I’m moving as fast as I can already and just don’t see how 100% is obtainable..it’s crazy. I guess I’ll see in another 2-3 weeks where I’m at and I’ll come back to one of ur videos. Gonna continue bringing them for awhile lol! Thanks man.
12 weeks in, Stuck in the 90 -97 % smh. But these def help. Find what works and stick with it. Yesterday was the first time i felt like i nailed produce. I try to stick to open cases/ 5 block on the front. Solid 7 block in the back. Hope it helps. Dairy is my challenge. So many cases smh.
i pick 110-120 idk why im here lol but at US foods its way different product, restaurants vs grocey stores! solid advice tho keep up the good work. especially with the touch it once bs!
I tower stack the bottles, probably a mistake I know! Cages end up with cases coming sticking out, causing the cases to fall. Should I use interlocking?
Your pallets look similar to HEB where im at. My question is how do you go about stacking a large quantity of small different size boxes? I’m pull up to each slot and I only have to pick 1 then I’m left with uneven corners and pretty much a unstable pallet.
I hear what you're saying but if we don't make our standard we get fired. Selectors honestly do not care that much about the truck which they probably should
How long you've been selecting?Once you get a base established you can go faster. Also move faster on easier parts of the Warehouse (different order) so when you get a bigger order you can move a little slower.
@@itstheonlyjimmy5485 fr. I’m on day 2 had around 70% between my first 2 days at c&s at es3 .. they give you 8 weeks to meet 100% .. you need 2 consecutive weeks of 100% to “graduate” before you can go incentive.
@@itstheonlyjimmy5485 as long as he is progressing day by day they most likely won’t let him go. There’s people at my job that first started with no experience and they were pulling 30% then the next few weeks they were at 50,then 55 percent. Now they are at 60-65 percent. Some people learn slower than others. Now if your going backwards yea your going to be gone
Been picking in produce (dry/wet/cold) for about 2.5 months now and i’m right around 70% working weekend, feel like i’m doing good but my manager seems to want me to move faster but i already bust my ass
Job gave me a 6 pack. But one thing I learned is management doesn’t care. They just use you. You’re nothing but a slave to them. Every warehouse job I’ve been to I was forced an into a promotion against my will for my “amazing” work ethic. Smh I’m high 24/7 it’s the only way I can do this shitty job. Thank god I went and got a degree so I don’t have to do that again
I know if I have just a few cases and a big order I'll drop pallets off somewhere and go get my cases. That way your not moving slow with pallets still on jack. Another thing I do is if ai see the replen grabbing the product but they are held up I will call out the case and grab it when it's in
I have to absolutely run nd rush to get barley over 100. Meanwhile i have coworkers who look like they are strolling thru a park nd they run a 120. Howww lol
Assuming you use the same system we do in the UK. If you get a base pick of say 20 cases of beer, you can pick them, confirm amount, exit the job, wait a few minutes then part pick the same ticket, you can generally gain 20-25 minutes extra for the job. You can't do every job or you'll get sussed by management.
Basically finding what works in ever part of the Warehouse and doing the same thing every time. So I literally have a good idea what my finished pallet will look like before throwing 1 case
I don't think any one can help😭 my highest daily average was 173 my problem is geting to 200+% on a constant daily basis 🤔 I'm open to help I seem to know just about every trick in the book to selecting only thing I haven done is Memorize every check digit n pick ahead I pick ahead now as it is only 1 to 3 at tho
You ever DELIVER these Pallets? I did foodservice Delivery for 15 years and I can honestly say the most important thing was Not how the Pallet looked, but that the product came off in the right order. Stop1 off the pallet first, stop2 second, yada yada yada. Digging all day when you have 18 stops to get off REALLY sucks. Some off best Pallets look shitty, but come off in order. When I saw a perfect cube, it was dig time. No good......
lol, had the same experience back in the day. I had 2 different trainers my first 3 days, they both sat in the cross-aisle and read the news paper, acted like I was there to steal their jobs or something. Luckily on my fourth day I got a third/different guy, he was awsome. Treated me like I was his little brother, showed me everything. He's the reason I made it, and the reason I try to be a good trainer now.
I beat my times on every order but a lot of days my percentage is 93 to 97% and other days I'm at 110+. I can beat my times all day n still be at a 97% why is that?
I'm 8 weeks in and only at 50 percent. I'm suppose to be at 70 and am about to be forced to switch departments. I have 3 weeks to get up to 85 percent. I am an emotional wreck and am gonna do my best but I need to fix this and don't know how to improve my rate
@@TheWarehouseSeries Is there no incentive at your job? Also, do you know the CPH required to pull 100% in each department? I believe at my DC the freezer used to be around 250, but now it's over 300.
And cases don't go where they"fit" they go accordingly to the stops and the way the pallet goes into the trailer, your missing the real point. Driver's don't get the luxury or having a warehouse to work in we got 3-4ft wide and need to get in and out of the trailer
Sooooo, the only thing you said differently than what my trainer said was about touching the box once. Otherwise, your just saying put this here, put that there. And telling people how you would do it. Just like the trainers. Thumbs down bro.
Stacking a pallet is common sense. Teaching them how to do it faster, I didn't see that in the video. Just telling people how you do it isn't helpful at all. I see all different techniques but none teaching exactly how to be faster. Just how not to build a bad pallet.
