If you deal with private labelled brands, you are sure to perform periodic production at your warehouse for those sets of products. These products are then stocked in your warehouse and then set to your stores as and when demand mandates. Production as a process is optimal only when done in batches as it requires you to position the required machinery and people to execute.

Arriving at a proper batch size per article is key to getting the best throughput for the effort put into your warehouse. Too small the batch, more frequent the repacking, too large the batch - stock may not be fresh with excess stock being probable at the warehouse and stores. As products vary, dealing with too many batch sizes also will cause confusion at the warehouse. Hence it's key to cornerstone the entire process to standard bag sizes.

An example of standard bag sizes could be 100g, 500g, 3kg, 5kg, 10kg, 20kg, 50kg. This example would mean, you do production and transfer to stores of any private label product only in these bag sizes. In this example, if the product 500g sugar is packed in a bag size 20kg, its store/transfer UOM is 40 (40 units of sugar 500g equals 20kg). You can now proceed to purchase packaging for these standard sizes and train your team to employ them (pick, pack, seal and store) at your warehouse.

Fortunately, The Eye can identify batch sizes based on demand in your stores and the gram-mage of the products that you stock. Set up the standard bag sizes as described below in Flight Plan - System Levers (search for standard bag size). Ensure to read the documentation below the configuration before editing as the effective number system is in tied to the repackage conversion factor setup in your item master.

You can also instruct The Eye to generate and employ certain sales-based baselines based on the number of days. The configuration for this is named: Pareto Fences Days (search for this in Flight plan - System Levers) - see the screenshot if you have difficulties in finding the config. This config takes the CSV (comma separated) form pareto_type=num_days. Hence an example of A=3, B=5, C=7, X=10 suggests a baseline of 3 days of sales for A class products, 5 days of sales for B class products, 7 days of sales for C class products and 10 days of sales for X class products.

With the following review for your business and a following worker-run, The Eye is ready to bin your private label products and recommend the best transfer unit of measure for them.

To view recommendations on standard bag size recommendations, issue the command articles to repack and navigate to the 'Standard Bag Size' tab. The listing shown here has UOM recommendations that you can accept. To accept recommendations, review the ones you would like to accept and then use the save option to accept all the reviewed recommendations in one shot. Other short hand actions in the save drop-down are available for quick review. The save confirmation dialogue also gives you the list of article UOM recommendations that are being accepted with the changes.

The listing has the following columns that help you with the review

1. Article Pareto - ABCX classification by bill count. This is chain Pareto as store UOMs are not store-specific.
2. Article name and category - Self explanatory
3. Recommended - Editable text field with recommended UOM size. The standard bag size is shown for your reference below this field.
4. Existing - If a store UOM is already present and enforced, it's listed here.
5. Actions - Control to review. No actions here are shown for products that have recommended store UOMs matching existing UOMs.

Click on the article name to open up the article flash card for more article-specific details and analysis.

The listing is also tied to a search box which can be used to locate any specific article that you are looking for. The section above the listing also lets you view the list grouped by a specific hierarchy level. Clicking on the hierarchy chip toggles (activates/deactivates) filtering of the listing based on what is being selected.

Further, there is also a Pareto-based filter that can help you filter articles by their Pareto level, review and take action in iterations.

Keep in mind that UOM recommendations accepted today will only be effective tomorrow. With this setup, The Eye will ensure that happens in standard bag sizes. You have just simplified and cut off more than 80% of time spent in picking and stocking operations at your warehouse