Cars take up space. Inventory takes up dollars. A well oiled merchandise highway allows plenty of space (dollars) for new product to enter from the right, and move from lane to lane without obstruction. As these products accelerate, other merchandise gets out of the way to allow their passage. They beep and wave as they go by, and exit off to the left at often blazing speeds.
Each department of your store contributes to sales and gross profit in different amounts and each, therefore, should have its own budget. Contained within a department are categories and sometimes sub-categories. Also, price points perform differently from one category to the next; therefore, your plan will call for different allocations by price.e/m
It’s important to understand the nature of budgeting inventory using a formula. I have attempted in this article to explain an approach for determining inventory levels that can be used by any business, regardless of its makeup. However, using a goal, such as GMROI to arrive at an inventory budget does not address the myriad [...]
by Abe Sherman There are some exciting new reporting capabilities already available and others that will be available soon in Balance to Buy™. The one that I’ll share today is the Period-to-Period option which was recently added to the Summary Detail Reports. Period reports let you compare productivity over long periods of time, in addition to [...]
By Abe Sherman Inventory management and control is an economic imperative Your need to deconstruct the components of your business in order to have a deeper understanding of its parts is an imperative. In the stages of deconstruction, you’ll begin to ascertain what elements are vital in the analysis of determining inventory levels…and determining inventory levels [...]
