Welcome

This site is for the associates at the South Roanoke Home Depot ^® (#4628). The purpose of the site is to create a repository of routines designed to create a better, more efficient workflow for the "housekeeping" tasks that associates need to do when not serving Home Depot's customers.

Some of the routines here are designed to assist associates with the ubiquitous task of downstocking products to keep shelves full. Other routines are to assist with other tasks. All were designed with the aim of making one more effective with their Home Depot duties.

Packdown Routines

The Routines page includes routines for the two methods of "packing-down" bays: "shelf-directed" and "overhead-directed". Both packdown methods require the use of a Nadamoo hand scanner, or its equivalent, to be effective.

The shelf-directed packdown routines are designed primarily for aisles or bays that do not have overstock locations on the same aisle that the stock is sold. In the case of our store, most of the overstock for the Light Cloud is stored nine aisles from where it is merchandised.

The overhead-directed routines are for assisting associates with keeping the shelves that do have overhead storage as full as possible, while at the same time, catching items in the overhead that are out of place or have no home location before they become penny items. This routine allows associates to do the equivalent of the annual full-packdown of a bay once a month or more.

Planogram Scraper

The Planogram Scraper can be used as a supplement to the official printed Planogram hanging on each bay. The program was designed in response to a botched major reset where almost all of the items in several bays were out of sequence. The program allowed associates to properly resequence the worst affected bays with minimum inconvenience to the customers.

QR Code Generator

In its current form the QR Code Generator allows one to create a QR code for any properly formatted URL (web address) up to a maximum of 4,260 characters. The QR code can be generated in several different sizes according to a users need. The resulting QR code image can be saved or copied off the screen for use elsewhere.