Merchandise planning is about
- anticipating customer demand, then
- planning your inventory needs to meet that demand while
- satisfying the company’s financial objectives – to maximize profit.
In this video training mini-series, we cover the basic concepts of retail math through workflow used in retail by-merchandise planning professionals.
Introduction to Merchandise Planning (MFP)
Learn what is MFP, and why retailers need it.
For more resources and information about merchandise planning, checkout our article on what is merchandise planning?
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Now that you understand what MFP is, and why we need it. Let’s get started.
First up,
Anticipating Customer Demand
Understand the basic steps of developing a sales plan
Now that you understand the basics of how to plan for customer demand – with sales demand planning, you can move on to plan the inventory needs to meet that need.
Check out our inventory planning series here.