Open-to-Buy and the WSSI
You follow one menswear knitwear department week by week through a twenty-week autumn. You build a WSSI that balances in units and in money. You meet an open-to-buy nobody sets, which turns negative in a week when nobody bought anything. And you see a season that ended badly overbought, without a single weekly decision you could argue with.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can build and defend an open-to-buy, phase intake against a forecast you can justify, and decide when to take a markdown instead of holding stock that is quietly costing you money.
Who it is for
Brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a working WSSI and open-to-buy control for one department. You balance the five-row grid every week in units and in money, with the four-row at-cost sheet beside it. You read cover against a rebased forecast. You work out open-to-buy four ways, including the on-order trap. You project weekly the stock you will end with, carrying both its ends. And you build a commitment-lock calendar.
Learning format
3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.