Facings, tickets and rotationSIC 47750 · specialised-store retail
SIC 47750 is the retail half of this company: cosmetic and toilet articles sold in a specialised store, which means a store whose bays are given over to this one group of goods rather than carrying it as an aisle among groceries. The unit of work on that side is not the order. It is the facing.
A facing is one unit presented front-out to a shopper, with however many units stand behind it. Fill, ticket and rotation are the three things done to a facing, and the order they are done in does not change.
What the bay fixes before anything is filled
| Ref | Piece | What it fixes |
|---|---|---|
| F1 | Deck | The depth available, and therefore how many units stand behind one facing |
| F2 | Upright and slot pitch | The headroom between decks, and therefore the tallest unit format the bay will take |
| F3 | Divider | Where one line stops and the next begins, so a facing cannot drift sideways |
| F4 | Pusher or fence | Whether units behind the facing come forward on their own as the front one is taken |
| F5 | Rail | Where the shelf-edge label sits, and so which label belongs to which facing |
A bay is measured before a line is accepted into it, not after. Deck depth and slot pitch between them decide the unit formats that can go in at all: a 500 ml pump bottle needs headroom a 4.8 g stick does not, and a deck set four units deep turns one outer into a quarter of the facings the same outer would fill on a deck set one deep. The pack-breakdown converter on the specification sheet does that division, and the depth it asks for is this measurement.
The replenishment round, in the order it runs
| Pass | Carried | Written down |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | Gaps walked, nothing carried | A list of lines standing short, by line reference and not by description |
| P2 | Inners drawn against that list | Which inners left the stockroom rack, and from which batch |
| P3 | Units filled front-out | Nothing, if the fill matched the list; a reason, if it did not |
| P4 | Empty inners and outers out | Card and film counted out of the bay for recycling |
Walking the gaps before touching stock is the pass most often skipped and the one that saves the round. A filler who carries an inner to the bay and finds no gap has moved stock twice for nothing and has to carry it back, which is how an inner ends up stood on the floor of a stockroom with its batch no longer recorded against a rack location.
The list is written by line reference because descriptions collide. Two lines can both be a 250 ml bottle of shower gel and differ in nothing a filler can see from the aisle except the reference on the rail.
Rotation: first expiry, first out
| Ref | Found | Action |
|---|---|---|
| R1 | Later date in front of an earlier one | Facing stripped and refilled in date order; the batch that was behind goes to the front |
| R2 | Two batches in one facing | Left as it is, provided the earlier batch is in front and the rail carries one reference |
| R3 | Unit inside the durability date but short-dated | Moved to the short-dated bay with the date written on the bay card |
| R4 | Unit past its durability date | Off the shelf at the time of finding, into the withdrawal bay, reason written |
| R5 | No date legible on the unit | Treated as R4 until the batch can be matched to a goods-in record |
First expiry, first out is not the same rule as first in, first out, and on this group of goods the difference matters. Two deliveries of one line can arrive a week apart and carry dates eight months apart, because the date on a cosmetic unit is set from the date of manufacture and its stated life, not from the day a case reached a bay. Where the arrival order and the date order disagree, the date order wins and the newer case is broken down first.
R5 exists because an unreadable date is a worse problem than a passed one. A passed date can be acted on; an illegible one has to be traced back through the batch number to the goods-in record before anyone knows what they are holding, and until that is done the unit is off the shelf.
What the shelf-edge label carries
| Field | Why it is on the rail | |
|---|---|---|
| T1 | Line reference | The only field that ties the facing to a row on the specification sheet |
| T2 | Unit format | So a 400 ml bottle is not filled into a facing ticketed for the 250 ml |
| T3 | Facing count | So a filler can see at a glance that a bay is short without counting it |
| T4 | Barcode | So the rail can be scanned on the date-check round instead of transcribed |
A live rail in a trading store also carries the retail pricing fields set by that store's own till system. Those fields are not reproduced anywhere on this site, and no figure printed on any page here is a price: the drawing on the specification sheet shows the label with its reference and format bars and nothing else, which is why the count that prints beside it is a count of facings.