Receive and condition the Monday grower delivery

What is going on

It is 6:30 on Monday morning at the Cremorne workroom. Two grower deliveries are due within the hour: Yarra Valley Blooms with garden roses, David Austin roses, snapdragons and eucalyptus, and Dandenong Natives with waratah, kangaroo paw, banksia and flowering gum. The Buying and Stock Coordinator is at the wholesale market and has asked you to receive both deliveries alone. The receival bench needs preparing, the cool room opening temperature has not been taken, and the workroom benches start production at 8 am and will be pulling from this stock. Last week a bunch of imported roses arrived with botrytis and a claim had to be lodged, so condition grading matters.

Your brief

Receive both deliveries correctly: prepare the bench and buckets, count and inspect every line, grade condition, condition and label every bunch, store it in cool room 1 in date order, record the opening temperature, and complete the forms and register entries so that a supplier claim can be lodged if needed.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Stock Receival and Conditioning Procedure and the Stock Quality and Freshness Policy, and list the conditioning treatments needed for roses, snapdragons, eucalyptus, waratah and flowering gum.
• Take the opening temperature reading for cool room 1 and enter it in the Stock Intake and Cool Room Log as a temperature reading entry.
• Prepare the receival bench: sanitise buckets, fill with water and preservative at the labelled rate, check knives, and open the two orders ready for counting.
• Receive the Yarra Valley Blooms delivery: count each line against the order, inspect for bud stage and disease, grade the condition and complete a Stock Receival and Condition Check Form.
• Receive the Dandenong Natives delivery the same way, recording the two bunch shortfall on kangaroo paw and photographing any line you grade C.
• Condition every line following the procedure, label each bucket with name, variety, supplier code and date, and place the buckets in cool room 1 in first in first out order.
• Enter both deliveries in the Stock Intake and Cool Room Log with the grades, shortfalls and any claim required, and set the status correctly.
• Clean the bench and floor, return tools to the rack, and write a short handover note to the Buying and Stock Coordinator listing anything that needs her follow-up.

What someone in this role would produce

• Two completed Stock Receival and Condition Check Forms
• Three entries in the Stock Intake and Cool Room Log (temperature plus two deliveries)
• A conditioning treatment list for the five flower types
• A handover note to the Buying and Stock Coordinator