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Newsletter - 07.11.2023

Every Tuesday afternoon the newsletter is published here with the latest info for all hubs!

Property Management & QHS

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[ACTION] Winter readiness

Winter is coming, and to be prepared we need all the hubs to take few actions so when the extreme cold arrives, the temperature in the hubs stays comfortable. For this, we need you to take few actions:

  • Remove all heaters. We know this may seem contradictory but heaters take a lot of electricity capacity. Our network is not dimensioned to have these heaters plugged in. We’ve already seen power outages due to heaters being used. Additionally, all our hubs have AC units installed so let’s make sure to use them!

  • Make sure to have your flaps hanging. All the hubs should have received curtain flaps to install in the main door (the one that needs to be open due to riders constantly coming in/out). These need to be hung to make sure that the warm air blown by the AC units stays inside and the cold air from the street stays out of the hub.
    If you don’t have the flaps in your hubs or the rail needs to be installed, submit a request by using the Property Management and External Services form. You will find the option under Building/Construction - Doors. If the railing is there from last year, just make sure to hang them.

For any questions, please contact Marina Tirado Martín

[ACTION] Tolerance temperature settings on fridges

Storing food in our fridges at the correct temperatures are fita to food safety and shelf life.

We have 2 different temperature settings to take into account:

  1. The Set temperature - This is the preferred temperature that we would like to store our food at at all times.

  2. The Tolerance temperature - This is the minimum and maximum variation in temperature that we can have in our fridges based on the products we store inside.

Set temperature settings:

  • Fresh fridges - 3 degrees

  • Met fridges - 2 degrees

  • Walk in fridge - 2 degrees

  • Drinks fridge - 7 degrees

Tolerance temperature settings:

  • Fresh fridges - 3 degrees

  • Meat fridges - 2 degrees

  • Drinks fridges - 4 degrees

Visit Zendesk to see how to change the temperatures on your fridges

For any questions please contact Mariette Kraak

Hub Ops / New Processes

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[INFO] Inventory Check Refresher

Based on your feedback (via Hub Alert), we’ve updated the (Fresh) Checks in HubOne. Below you will find what has been updated and actions to be taken by the hub.

What’s changed?

💡 Fresh Check Logic

We’ve updated the Fresh Check logic. Meaning, eg. no more canned products to check on a daily basis. The majority of F&V products are checked daily and 3 times per week now. If you’re still in doubt, please double check by creating a Hub Alert ticket before discarding - please always add a (clear) picture to your ticket.

💡 Inventory Check Prioritisation

Please find the Shelf Check Prioritisation in the table below. Please keep an eye on the Flow Management Dashboard to see what Shelf Check has the most priority when delegating OA tasks. We’re working on a better prioritisation visibility in HubOne to make it easier for (new) OAs when to perform which check.

Check Type

Trigger Time

Completed by

1

Stock Check (Urgent)

Low Stock Check (avg. 90 per day)

2PM (14:00)

6PM (18:00)

2

6AM (06:00)

10AM (10:00)

3

6AM (06:00)

Before End of Day

4

Stock Check (Regular)

Expensive Check

6AM (06:00)

Before End of Day

Hub Actions (please read carefully)

🚨 Please remove ‘When to Outbound’ prints ASAP from the fridges. The customers’ days before expiry information available is replaced by the when to outbound instructions in BBD Checks. Only trust the when to outbound information in the BBD Check.

🚨 Create a Hub Alert ticket for any issues (eg. wrong product in check / missing product in check), as this is still used as valuable feedback to improve the Shelf Checks.

🚨 Follow Check instructions in HubOne for Customer - Shelf life 0 (C-SL) products (not old way of working). You can still keep the products in the fridge for the SAME day to sell.

🚨 Bakery products outbound end of day, a Fresh Check is only triggered if there is still old stock present from previous day.


References

ℹ️ More information on Inventory Checks

🙋 Leave your feedback on Tools here

Marketing Activities Updates

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[ACTION] Sinterklaas activation

What

  • Sinterklaas will be in the country next week. Similar to what we did last year, we will set up a campaign from marketing where customers can add a drawing to their basket while ordering.

  • Then, we encourage the kids to bring back the colouring plate to their nearest hub and, in return, they get treated with something sweet! Either a chocolate or candy - basically any candy that you have in higher stocks. Here, there are no specifications in which type of candy you can give.

Process

  1. The colouring plates will be sent out this week (CW45) to the hubs.

  2. How to know when to add a colouring plate to the order?

    1. The colouring plate will be in the app as an SKU.

    2. Therefore, the customer can add it to their order as if it was a SKU.

    3. Once a customer has added it to the order, Picker/OA receives a notification and should then add the colouring plate in the bag. For reference, the colouring plate looks like this:

Front & back pages

💡 There won’t be shelf space for the colouring plates. Therefore, these should be placed next to the flyers e.g., where they are visible and easy to pick up.

References

🙋 Any questions, please contact Daniela Farias

Supply Chain Updates

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[INFO] Lekkerland - Delivery Schedule timeslot changes

As of week 45 (November 6), multiple delivery slots for Lekkerland delivery will be adjusted.

You can find the updated list per hub in Zendesk.

If you have any questions, please let Sara Barros das Neves know.

Training

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[INFO] 16th Department Marketplace - Fri 10 Nov

The upcoming Department Marketplace is planned for Fri 10 Nov!

  • In case you have missed this event, please make sure to attend this edition as this is a mandatory onboarding event.

  • Please check your email for the invitation.

  • Sign up (again) via this registration link here

References

ℹ️ For more information see Shift Lead Onboarding

🙋 For questions/invitation, please contact [email protected]

HR & Payroll

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[INFO] Looking back to the mid-year feedback process

As discussed during last Friday’s Shift Lead Quarterly we drew some interesting learning as a team to further develop ourselves in our roles. As explained by Marianne there are several ways to learn and develop ourselves (see table below).

For the Shift Leads who are motivated to start in MyAcedamy right away, please use this form to register on the platform.

Professional expertise

Team Management

Organisational skill

Communication & Conflict resolution

70% on the job

Getting to know KPI’s and review with your Hub Manager how to improve them

Consciously try to understand what motivates the team and try new ways of motivating them

Understanding the ‘Golden rules’

Review consciously after each shift what went well & what could gone better

Practice to give and request constructive feedback, start with 1 top & 1 bottom performer in your hub

20% learning from others

Who in your Hub (or cluster) is really good at this & can you learn from: ask your Hub manager!

Who in your Hub (or cluster) is really good at this & can you learn from: ask your Hub manager!

Who in your Hub (or cluster) is really good at this & can you learn from: ask your Hub manager!

Who in your Hub (or cluster) is really good at this & can you learn from: ask your Hub manager!

10% formal training

Hub Wiki: Ops processes

Courses Team Management via MyAcademy

Courses Conflict resolution, Communication and Feedback via MyAcademy

[INFO] YourCampus

We’ve noticed that YourCampus (Flink’s platform for secondary benefits), isn’t used by everybody in the Hubs yet! This is of course very unfortunate since YourCampus provides you the opportunity to create your own benefits package with a budget provided by Flink!

Where can I spend my budget on?

Several Health, Mobility, Learning, Finance, and Lifestyle related benefits for example:

  • Flink (Also click and collect!)

  • Your local Gym (check out the benefits Bedrijfsfitness NL & Basic Fit)

  • Felyx

  • Uber

  • Vitaminstore

I can’t log on to the app…

You can log on to the app via your GoFlink email address. If you haven't done this yet, please try again via this link!

Note: If you don't have access to your GoFlink email address, please insert an IT ticket via this link or reach out in the slack group #locked-okta-account

If you have any further questions regarding access to the app for the YourCampus team, you can reach out to: [email protected]

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