Inventory Accuracy and Shrinkage
You follow one kidswear basics department through a sixteen-week autumn. You see the four different numbers one shelf holds. You find a store-and-size error rate ten times the one reported to the board. And you break a year of shrink into six causes, not one of which was anybody's mistake.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can allocate an intake across stores on evidence rather than an even split, tell the difference between the stock your system claims and the stock that exists, and plan for returns as a cost you priced in.
Who it is for
Brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build an inventory-accuracy control for one department. You work the four-number ladder from book stock to sellable stock at one door. You run the size-curve test that turns unit cover into sellable cover. You measure gross against net error at store-and-size level. You build a six-line shrink breakdown that reconciles to the count. And you cost a cycle-count case.
Learning format
3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.