I spent the last three days visiting the stores that I'm working with. On Wednesday, I visited Ankeny and spent the day with the product management team. They are responsible for maintaining inventory. This job includes ordering, counting, printing price tags, etc.
Thursday, I was ill.
Friday, I spent the morning in Indianola. I worked with their product manager and learned how to set a new item. When stores receive new items, they have to determine where it will go on the sales floor. If it's soup, it goes in the soup section, obviously. However, it's a little more involved than that. The product manager has to decide where in the section to put the new item. If it's a new flavor, similar to some already stocked, then the logical place is beside the other flavors. This can present a challenge, because often something must be replaced with the new item.
Product managers can look at data on what items are the slowest movers, lowest grossing items, out of season, etc. They use all of this information to inform their decision.
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