Fashion Merchandising Planning

Overview

This short course introduces you to the theories, concepts and practice of allocating fashion and textile merchandise to appropriate retail outlets or clients. Through investigating and analysing collected retail data, you will design and develop retail strategies for fashion stores and enterprises that would contribute to corporate financial planning.

Course content

In this course you will develop the following learning outcomes:

  • Apply and creatively adapt a body of theoretical and technical knowledge and skills in sourcing requirements to meet cultural and social needs of the target market
  • Communicate effectively to audiences about retail information for successful merchandise management and planning.

Ideal for

This course is suited to those that are currently working in, or have recently studied, Fashion Buying, Allocating, Merchandising or Fashion Retail Management or similar and want to refresh or upskill to attain specific Merchandise Planning skills.

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Outcome

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Apply financial principles of buying and selling fashion and textiles products
  • Define and identify key components of best practice in merchandise planning
  • Analyse sales data in relation to fashion and textiles merchandise
  • Plan financial strategies to support successful purchasing, sales, markdowns and stock plans for the retail environment
  • Apply key concepts of merchandise planning to a range of retail environments.

Pre-requisites

Students must have a working knowledge of Excel

Ideal if students have Certificate Level+ fashion education &/or experience working in TCF Industry as Buyer, Allocator, Retail Manager or similar.

Materials supplied

All relevant course materials are included.

Materials to bring

Pen/pencil and notebook. Students are invited to bring laptops with them to this session.

Award

Participants will be emailed an RMIT Statement of Participation on completion.

Additional notes

N/A

Facilitator


Anne Radford Helme

Anne has worked in the Apparel, Underwear and Footwear businesses in Operations and Supply Chain for over 25 years. She has managed teams in Planning, Product Development, Customer Service, Sourcing and Logistics. In 1988 she graduated from Melbourne University with a diploma in Engineering. After working for Kayser Lingerie and Lovable in the underwear stream, she went on to work for adidas. Her role started as costing and engineering garments to achieve profitable margins and was an intrigue part of the team that saw adidas rise back in leading the sports branded market against its major competitors

2000 Anne join Pacific Dunlop which later became Pacific Brands. She worked over several of their businesses in operational and supply chain roles, her roles consisted executing business strategy by improving efficiency and return profit to meet KPI’s. She has worked and travelled overseas securing capacity for manufacturing and reducing lead-times by 10% and improving gross margins. Her extensive knowledge is in planning, product development, supplier/customer relationships and has a sound business acumen.

2011 Anne graduated with a business management Diploma, she joined the business senior leadership team and was responsible for coaching and mentoring employee’s, in 2015 Anne completed a certificate IV in Human Recourses.

Her knowledge over the Supply Chain and Business Operations is a solid foundation into teaching the Merchandising Planning & Fashion Business short courses.

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Available course dates

Tuesday 25 August 2020

  • Code S350343
  • Start date 25.08.20
  • End date 13.10.20
  • Hours 27
  • Campus City
  • Fee $930.00
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Session  Start  End Hours
Tue 25.08.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 01.09.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 08.09.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 15.09.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 22.09.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 29.09.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 06.10.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 13.10.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00
Tue 13.10.20 06:00pm 09:00pm 3.00

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