PLANNING CONSUMER DEMAND - SELECT CONTENT

Our online Merchandise Planning course is our most popular advanced course. Retail Buyers, Product Planning teams and Sales Directors love this course. Below is a sample of some of the topics we cover in the 4th week where our playbook focuses on quantifying item purchases and planning key item programs.

*This course is now offered by our partners over at Productlytics.

• DOWNLOAD | Q2 merchandising plan

• Merchandising plan intro 

• Merchandising plan - key metrics

• Merchandising plan - reading rows and columns

ITEM DEMAND PLANNING

• The Demand Signal - Item Opportunities

• CASE | Identifying missed opportunities 

• CASE | Repeat item opportunity

• Introduction to Post Season Item Opportunity

• Sell-thru

• Average retail and sell-price

• The significance of average sell-price and average retail price

PRE-SEASON PLANNING

• Why create pre-season plans | Pre-season plan objectives

• Ways to achieve growth

• PLANNING METHODS| Top-Down Planning | Bottom-Up Planning

SKILLS TEST

• Item Demand Planning

FEEDBACK FORM

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EXPECTED TIME TO COMPLETE | 1.5 hours