Allocation and Inventory
You learn how to get the right stock to the right place, and how to know what you really have, including what comes back.
After this track you can
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.
6 courses · 10 h 50 min
- 18.1Allocation FundamentalsPractitioner3 lessons · 2 hYou split one womenswear knitwear style across forty-two shops and follow it from the intake booking to the clearance rail. The depth forecast was right to four units in twenty-six hundred. The season still lost margin, because every door was sent the size shape of a chain nobody shops in.
- 18.2ReplenishmentPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou follow one menswear shirt through a fourteen-week spring at a retailer with sixty-two shops. You build the weekly pull size by size. You meet a warehouse holding more shirts than the shops asked for and still unable to fill the order. You watch three shops get identical stock and finish in three different places. Then you count a season that lost 1,120 sales with no bad weekly decision in it.
- 18.3Inventory Accuracy and ShrinkagePractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 40 minYou 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.
- 18.4Omnichannel InventoryAdvanced3 lessons · 1 h 50 minYou follow one womenswear denim style at a 62-shop retailer with a website through a nine-week phase. A network holding 4,180 units could promise 2,878 and serve real demand with only 1,177. A ship-from-store router rescued a week of orders and destroyed margin doing it. And a season was lost to four decisions that were each defensible on their own.
- 18.5ReturnsPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 30 minYou follow one footwear style through a twelve-week autumn. A return rate read half its real size because the returns had not arrived yet. You cost a returned pair to the penny through inspection and disposition. And you see a style that ended the phase with plenty of stock and nothing to sell in thirty-six shops.
- 18.6Retail Supply Chain and Speed ModelsAdvanced3 lessons · 2 hYou follow one sixteen-week autumn bedlinen phase at a fifty-four shop home retailer, from the sourcing calendar to the January clearance trader. You price three lead-time rungs against each other. You read gross margin per unit and per shelf metre. And you see a season that ended badly over-bought, without one indefensible decision in it.
Track exam
12 questions drawn from a larger bank, across the courses in this track, passed at 70%. 3 attempts, then it locks for 7 days. It is worth finishing the courses first.
Sit the track exam