Managerial

September 23, 2010: Managerial

This portion of the day would not be possible had my manager not been on vacation.  We have been over the bake and placement of sweet goods.  Now comes when I must be the authority in bake shop.  You would not think it, but there is a ton of paperwork that goes into running even a small portion of a supermarket.

Analyzing the paperwork is the beginning of the process.  I am given numbers for sales from the past week (very good, $2,000 more than last year) and based on those I have to factor out the amount of hours available for scheduling.  There are a whole bunch of new hires coming in so I have to give the proper amount of hours (minimum 15 for part time employees and 40 for full time employees).  I create the next week's schedule and bring it up to the store manager's office for approval.  Next I must look at the shrink numbers for the week.  Shrink is the number of product movement that we have based on the number of products that we have in our stock.  The lower the percentage of shrink the greater it is for our department.  Our shrink currently is at a 3.77% which is an excellent number for us.  Next I have to order the products to arrive the next evening.  We order approximately 200 boxes of products per day. 

The process overall takes about three hours to complete.  No more paperwork UNTIL THE NEXT DAY! WOOHOO!

TO BE CONTINUED...

Stay Sweet,

Lil' Buddy