Selectors ! How to Throw Over 100%

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My most popular question answered in this video and it does not involve physically moving faster.

[bryanmurutes]

Agree your training week isn't about speed it's about building. Now before I even start selecting I have the pallet half way built in my head. Learn the cases and learn the product. Your absolutely right take pride in whatever you do

[guzmanjg]

Employers don’t help. They keep preaching speed speed speed but never tell you that by learning to build properly, the speed comes without even trying.

[MrAUFANATIC]

I can walk 110%
It's a million and one ways to order select. Every selector is different. Some will care about stacking and percentage. Some care more about speed than stacking. This new guy asked me how do I walk and overlap him with orders. Simply, the more you pick cases in a warehouse, mentally you know what you're going to get and you have to set yourself up for the next case. The first picture is a dairy order. Most warehouses with dairy, the first 2 or 3 aisles the cases are going to match. Don't leave gaps between cases. If its a gap, turn a case or 2 around and close it. A few cases will be slightly higher than others. Always put taller cases on the corner of your pallet. Once you learn your warehouse and orders, your stacking will become your speed. This job is 75% mental and 25% physical. Once you get to the end of dairy, where you get all the small cases just throw it on top of your pallet. No need to stack that.

[littlechico]

My man Vince Vaughn killin it in the order selector world!

[m.d.sharpe]

Agreed, figured this out early on. Focus on internalizing and visualizing what a nice pallet looks like, as you get used to the boxes and knowing where things go you will naturally get faster. But speed is not the priority in training

[EdwardLawlerJr]

I'd just like to ad, as far as times/percentages go, make sure your not pissing time away through out your shifts. I'm talking about long breaks/lunches, pausing during an assignment to play with your phone, talk to somebody, daydream, rubber neck, etc. All these little things add up (a few seconds here, a few minutes there) and your just shooting yourself in the foot, and you have to bust your ass to make this time up. Once you button up all these areas your giving away/losing time, your percentages/times will be better, and come easier.

[apalacio]

Just got hired fellas! Keep the tips coming!

[_cLee]

I run an average of 136 and I’ve been at my warehouse for going on 3 months (first time working in a warehouse). Really it’s just memorizing the products whenever you begin picking and keeping the same method of stacking with those products once you learn them.

[itstheonlyjimmy]

It’s really just learning how to stack for any new selectors out there. I still run from Time to time but honestly you do it every day and you’ll get better

[lxDastanxl]

This is one of the best jobs out there if you are into working out

[anthonydargan]

Jack placement is the most overlooked factor when it comes to speed. To save your body you should be picking up the case as close to pallet your stacking on as possible. You should be able to pick up the case and put it down without having to walk at all almost. I have super good stacking and I pull a 160-180 everyday for max incentive

[guzmanjg]

Once you learn your product its easy money!! Miss case picking so much. My weight melted off by just doing my job lol.

[kairam]

Personally, I’ve found that I am able to achieve over 100% by stacking the product on the same side from which I am picking. So if I have to pick 20 boxes of open case grapes, I will stack all 20 on the one side that I pick from And fill in the other side with other product that I pick on other side . This will sometimes produce questionable pallets but unfortunately that’s sometimes the price we have to pay to achieve standards.

[thegamingcolossus]

Update, it’s been a year since I started selecting. I’ve learned a few things that have made me better and better at work. But a good tip I like to give to the newbies at my warehouse is try taking only one step for each case, don’t walk around your pallets, and try to leave space throughout your build for larger/ awkward boxes.

[dsellers]

Great video Tim! Best warehouse channel on YouTube! Much appreciated!

[jeremygozda]

Great video tim, that dairy pass almost didn't make it haha. I stress what you say to every selector that I train/help. Usaully the best/highest performing selectors have one thing in common they know how to build. They also work smart not hard, 70% of my cases are on the odd side of the aisle. Their jack stays on that side and they walk the 30% to their pallet rather than moving their jack back and forth.

[SIREB-WONKRU]

Easier said than done. That's for damn sure.

[jhanasah]

I always looked at it as making a puzzle, just fitting in the peices/spaces 😉

[josepalacios]

Brother, you think just like me my job doesn’t let me train anymore because I was that good and a few other union places as well now they have guys that are just lazy and wouldn’t be off the clock to train now the warehouse is falling apart. No one helps not even the union We hope things get better for us, but it’s not looking so well, but the company will not leave the union because we are number one in our whole company. We’re both by company and we push out the most product but still you speak the truth and might think alike, which I think it’s great awesome job man.

[michaelrobert]

Got to put the work in no matter what you do.