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Chapter 8 Managing a Retailer’s Finances. Nanut Sitthiphong Chun-Lan Yeh. Chapter 8 Overview. Merchandise Budget 1. Planned sales 2. Planned BOM and EOM inventories 3. Planned retail reductions 4. Planned purchases at retail and cost 5. Planned gross margin. Merchandise Budget.
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Chapter 8Managing a Retailer’s Finances Nanut Sitthiphong Chun-Lan Yeh
Chapter 8 Overview • Merchandise Budget 1. Planned sales 2. Planned BOM and EOM inventories 3. Planned retail reductions 4. Planned purchases at retail and cost 5. Planned gross margin.
Chapter 8 Overview • Retail Accounting Statement ⊙Income Statement or Profit and Loss Statement ⊙ Balance Sheet ⊙ Statement of cash flow • Inventory Valuation ⊙ Accounting Inventory System - The Cost Method - The Retail Method ⊙ inventory pricing systems - FIFO - LIFO
How to get the right merchandise assortment and sufficient stock to achieve planned sales • According to Retail Reporting Calendar • Using Forecasting Technology • Peclers paris • Planalytics • Sourcing Simulator
PeclersP a r i s • Dominique Peclers established the styling agency in 1970. • In 1998, joined the British-American group Fitch Worldwide, specialists in brand and design consulting. • Today, international trend forecasting leader. 21 agents throughout the world. • Peclers Paris forecasts and deciphers today the fashion moods of tomorrow, imagine the future, and give sense to the product.
PeclersP a r i s • Service provided: - Style and product design consultancy - Promotion and communication consultancy - Origination and publication of trend books
Planalytics • Weather and climate-sensitive industries, both directly and indirectly, account for about one-third of the Nation’s gross domestic product, or $3.0 Trillion. -Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr. Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy (Ret.) Under Secretary for oceans and Atmosphere, United States Dapartment of Commerce. – • The benefits for retailers are more effective store-specific merchandise assortments, higher customer satisfaction levels, less safety stock at all levels of the supply chain, increased stock turns, fewer stock-outs, fewer markdowns and increased profitability.
Planalytics • Business Forecasting service to help firms planning the merchandise budget by providing forecasting weather-driven changes in supply, demand and prices for products and services. • Results : - Risk Management - Improved Control of Cost - Increased Revenue
Sourcing Simulator • Developed by researchers at North Carolina State University, working with Textile/Clothing Technology Corp. ([TC]2) and the DAMA Project to facilitate retailers analyzes various "what if" sourcing scenarios.
Sourcing Simulator • Benefits: - Analyzes various "what if" sourcing scenarios on methods of supply [quick response (QR) vs. vendor-managed inventory (VMI) vs. fixed delivery times] and amounts of merchandise - Provides financial performance measures for comparison
Sourcing Simulator • What can you manipulate in Sourcing Simulator? - the line of apparel: number of stock keeping units (SKUs), wholesale costs, other procurement costs, inventory carrying costs, etc. - the buyer's preseason forecast of demand: total volume, SKU mix, and seasonality pattern. - means of merchandising: retail price, markdown schedule, etc. - sourcing means: type of vendor, initial delivery quantity, number of in-season replenishment orders, lead time until receipt, vendor reliability, etc.
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Source • http://findarticles.com/p/search?qt=planalytics&tb=art&qf=free • http://www.peclersparis.com/index2.html • http://reliability.sandia.gov/Software/Sourcing_Simulator/sourcing_simulator.html • http://www.planalytics.com/app/corp/start.jsp • Retailing, Dunne Lusch, 5th Edition.