The Retail Critical Path
You follow one retail season backwards from the day a customer can buy it. You split 299 days between a buying office, a factory and a distribution chain. You find a seven-day anchor error nobody made, and a fortnightly committee that turned a week's slip into a fortnight. And you price every recovery lever a retailer owns.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can build a range with a margin target on it, negotiate as the buyer rather than against one, and explain why a retailer will refuse an order that looks perfectly good from the factory.
Who it is for
Brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a season calendar backwards from its trading date, with every milestone owned and every date priced by what moving it costs. You count the internal calendar as a share of the season. You break a delay down by where each day was created. And you price six recovery levers as margin lost plus cash spent, on one table.
Learning format
3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.