WHAT WE DO
WAVING
INVENTORY CONTROL
BRAND CO-ORDINATION
WHAT I ASKED, WHAT I LEARNED
100

The three core focus areas of the command Center


What are Inventory Control, Brand Coordination, and Waving Strategy?

100

Classification is used to prioritize allocations in the waving process

What are Ticket Types (TT)?



100

This is how cereal pays its bills.

What is CHEX?

100

Meeting held once a week to review upcoming allocations?

What is Flow Call? 

100

This warehouse activity involves investigating missing or incorrect inventory to identify its status or location.

What is researching? 

200

This function connects the brand’s priorities with DC execution to ensure alignment.

What is Brand Coordination?

200

This '90s basketball legend has his own signature sneaker and is widely regarded as "the greatest of all time”?

Who is Michael Jordan? 


200

This IC activity, conducted multiple times annually, helps identify errors from incorrect scans and misplaced pallets.

What is cycle counting? 

200

This email is sent out once a day with information on upcoming TT calendars 

What is Strategic Ops email?

200

This is the number of districts we serve out of Morse Road 

What is 34?

300

This overall concept measures the time it takes from allocation to store delivery.

What is throughput?

300

This time window defines when allocations are considered current and not yet aged.

What is less than 5 days?

300

This monthly meeting with finance reviews inventory shrink and gain from the prior month .

What is KPI Meeting?

300

This standardized request process is used for events, giveaways, and marketing initiatives ETC 

What is BIA? 

300

This creature can sleep for up to three years at a time.

What is snail? 

400

I am not alive, but I have grown. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

What is fire?

400

This Ticket Type is used specifically for FED-EX ground allocations 

What is TT 20? 

400

Inventory locked pending verification by quality teams is typically placed under this lock code.

What is QI? 

400

Within the BBW network, this site number identifies the Triangle location in New Jersey

 

What is S007? 

400

This is what the acronym ILOP stands for 

What is Integrated Logistics Operating Plan ? 
500

This are the four pillars of the Consumer First Formula

What is 

Create Disruptive & Innovative Products

Reignite the Brand

Win in the marketplace

Operate with Speed Efficiency 

500

This code is applied during waving to prioritize by CC in shipping and indicate the product’s floorset or promotion on the label

What is PDT?

500

These two adjustment types are used to remove inventory from or add inventory back into reserve locations.


What is Consume and Create? 

500

This year is when the first Harry potter book come out 

What is 1997?

500

This is why new store allocations are sent to DC7 for outbound processing.

What is consolidation and shipment through SB2?