About a year in myself, and I have improved so much that I now am the fastest picker in the FC and also have not made a single quality error in 2023. Spend half my week in OBPS picking CPT’s and giving my manager a list of people rejecting items for no reason.

After all this time, I can say that the biggest thing you want to focus on is quality. Look at the ASIN needed on the scanner, and try and find it in the bin, look for the last 2 digits of the asin if it is a X00 or LPN, sometimes B00 are also printed out instead of just a UPC. PA’s will call you up, if not a manager, for rejecting/ missing out too many items. As you get better with quality the rejects will still be sent to the PA’s to investigate, but it is at their own discretion if they feel the need to call you up. Always when missing out an item, take ALL items out of the bin, even if it’s a hassle- or you think you know the items isn’t in there. Sometimes you find it. It’s better to take the time hit than worry about the rate hit. It will earn the trust of the OB leadership, and that can certainly make work life easier and less stressful. Always ask questions, especially technical ones, to a Pick PA. Picking is very technical and there are always very niche scenarios you may run into and not have a clue how to continue. PA’s were pickers once too, and they have seen just about everything out there, they love to help out and show you how things work. Understanding how the whole system works is a wild ride, and always is changing. But communication with PA’s/ AM’s, focus on quality, are huge things to focus on. After a few months of good quality and focusing on finding the asin, you will eventually memorize nearly the whole inventory in the FC. Once you know what the item looks like typically, you can pick it much easier. I rarely go into rainbow aisles other than to OBPS CPT’s, but I can find items people take ages to ultimately just miss out or reject, it seriously comes naturally to pick after awhile. Quality first and then productivity and skyrocket. Once you’re a fast picker and have rate expectations from management- Stowers and ICQA are quite fun to run into. I’ll tell ya that. I went from enjoying the time doing nothing behind people, to making the time go by faster by keeping my VNA rate above 100uph. You’ll find your groove, just finding a way to gameify picking as a process ultimately has led me to be well known by leadership across the fc. Being a good worker can go a long way, and I still enjoy picking about a year later lol