Week 1 | Demand Planning Foundation
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Merchandise planning role introduction
- Merchandise planner responsibilities
- Fiscal calendar
- Retail math introduction
RETAIL MATH BASICS
- Basics - calculating average
- Basics - calculating rate
- Basics - contribution and blends
- CASE | Dinnerware category analysis
- Basics - business increases and decreases
- Benchmarking
- Benchmarking case: Coach's slowing growth
- Benchmarking in surf: In the midst of change at the big 4
- DOWNLOAD | Q2 merchandising plan
- Merchandising plan intro
- Merchandising plan - key metrics
- Merchandising plan - reading rows and columns
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
- Inventory introduction
- Beginning of month inventory
- BOM's affect on sales
- End of month inventory
- Average inventory
- Stock to sales ratio
- Inventory peaks and valleys