Item Merges

The Item Merge Process is Simplified 

●Beginning July 10, the backroom item merge process will be simplified to one weekly routine and report, the Item Merge Report.

Key Details:

Beginning July 10, the Item Merge Report can be found on Workbench | Store Reports | Item Merge Report.

●The report includes:● Pre-populated backroom locations; therefore, the Item Merge Backroom

Location Worksheet is no longer needed to identify backroom locations for items that need to be merged.

●A completion percent of the previous week's items/backroom locations which provides store and field leadership visibility to store performance.

Project Description & Risk

●An estimated 25-35% of merges go unworked initially in stores leading to in stock and on hand integrity issues

●More than $13M in NOP backroom inventory was due to unprocessed Item Merges in 2011

Non execution impact on Store

Weekly Workload

Open Stock Locations: –Use LOCU on the PDA to update locations that contain the merged

product –You will not need to print new UPC barcode labels for open stock

merchandise

Casestock Locations: ●Open the carton ●Use Item Search on the PDA to validate Item Merge took place

– If Yes, scan item to create new UPC barcode using BCODE application on the PDA

– If No, submit problem item form on mySupport ●Place new UPC over all current carton labe UPC codes ●Update location using LOCU on the PDA