Merchandise Planning Intensive
This online Merchandise Planning Course emphasizes the interconnectedness between the various aspects of a profitable business: sales, the customer, markdowns, inventory management, store productivity, and supplier capabilities. Join us today.
Course Outcomes
✅ Build a strong business foundation in profit and inventory management and strategic planning best practices.
✅ Gain high-level understanding of the connection between planning, the supply chain, buying and the consumer experience. You will develop your cross-collaboration skills and explore departmental interconnectedness for more impactful plans.
✅ Create future season’s business plans that align with company strategy and maximize key business opportunities, increasing sales, profit, and brand affinity.
Expert content + industry support
Every week for eight weeks a new playbook is released. First, we walk you through our playbook for growth in the course. Then you dive deeper into the month's theme with supporting resources online, and in the community discussions.
👩💻 Engaging Content
This course is filled with case scenarios, supplementary video, engaging content and resources to help you learn and apply the Profitable Markdowns course learnings.
✅ The Playbook
The Markdown Strategy Playbook is where you will map your plan for the coming month(s), and track your progress. This ensures you're not just "learning", but you have a plan of action for your business.
🖤 Community
You'll be learning and growing together with like-minded wholesale leaders and brand managers.
? Q&A hotline
Access to facilitators to answer questions regarding material and application to your business.
🏆 Certificate
A digital badge and certificate to share on social to let everyone know you are building your skills. The Certificate demonstrates your mastery and understanding of markdowns.
This course is for you if ...
This course is for you if work in brand wholesale sales, buying, retail management or in other merchandise functions. This online merchandising training will help you better understand the retail merchandise plan, and how to use it to derive key business insights and support your business strategies.
Delivering profit plans while executing company strategy requires a talented planning individual. It requires a thorough understanding of how each business metric interacts with one another. Add in cross-functional team buy-in, consumer perception, and loyalty, and a master merchandise planner is more than a number cruncher.
See what others are saying
“I took the retail buying, then merchandise planning courses, to ensure I was looking at things from a broad enough perspective. #lifesaver”
“This course was great for my team to go through. It’s amazing how many new strategies it sparked! ”