Why does my Green sheets show that I get more hours than what my Demand gives me? Than when I look at my PNL it shows that I’m under in payroll. I always schedule to demand. I’ve always heard that the DL’S
Are the ones who plug in your Demand. Is that true?
Green sheet budget hours are a base calculation tied to budgeted sales with a desired dollar per man hour.
Your P&L payroll dollars are not tied to either. That is based on average wages for your store for the previous year with a slight increase for annual increases.
Demand is no longer based on only sales. It is primarily driven by customer count and it works on six week trend. So if your customer count is up consistently you will see more hours than your green sheets show.
Think about it...as our prices increase every year so would your sales dollars, but your customer count may be flat. Why would you need extra hours for the sales increase then?
If you look at your category sales reports (also on last page of P&L) look at your customer count comps for LY. If you are down your demand will be less than your green sheet budget. If your customer count is up your demand will be more. We’re not talking about a ton, but it should be more. I’m not sure how minimum hours stores play in this though. Hope this helps.
Because the budget is not the demand. Some DLs sent the budgets out to the stores via the excel program. I can view every store in the company. My is usually 4 hours more than demand.
The DLs will lie and say they dont know, but it is because the company can not trust the store managers so they need a "kitty!"
We are hitting our budget FS & Rx by 15%
Pharmacy? Missing budget? Demand is a way for corporate to control spend and squeeze out extra to hit Wall Street expectations. And no, you DL has nooo control over demand. Even if we think it’s wrong, we get the same answer..sorry, we looked at it, and it’s right.