Fashion Buying and Merchandising Intensive Online Short Course

Our Fashion Buying and Merchandising: Intensive course covers what to expect if you plan to start your career with an established retailer, or if you have recently started in a fashion buying or merchandising and want to understand ‘best practice’.

Topics Covered

• What do buyers and merchandisers actually do in retailers and brands?
• How do they set the prices that they sell to the consumer?
• How do they calculate the price that they will buy from the supplier?
• How are they organised and how do they operate within the company organisation?
• How do they manage the create skills of the designers?
• How do they plan supplier lead times, and delivery schedules?
• How do they calculate how many garments they expect to sell?
• How do they calculate how many they intend to buy?
• How do they organise distribution to their shops?
• How do they sell on their website?
• How do they manage sales and stock during the selling season?

The course is a combination of discussions and practical tasks. At the end of the week you will have:

• Produced your own range plan of garments
• Created a sales forecast for it
• Created a buying plan and buying budget for it
• Bought it in a competitive game played against the tutor
• Allocated it to your stores, after the buying campaign is complete