Navigating Seasonal Merchandise and Planning: From Inventory Shelf Life to Open-to-Buy Planning!

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Effective seasonal merchandise planning is more critical than ever in today’s dynamic retail landscape. Click the link to learn all about our future webinars and expos where you can find us: https://www.celerant.com/events/

Join us for an insightful webinar that will transform how you approach product flow, event-specific merchandising, and strategic inventory management.

Why Should You Give it a Watch? This merchandise and open-to-buy planning inventory educational webinar will help retailers of all sizes understand the complexities of seasonal product planning across different retail categories.

Learn where the opportunities to learn strategies for managing product shelf life lay and how best plan entry/exit timing, maximize calendar events and seasonal opportunities, and develop more granular approaches to open-to-buy (OTB) planning.

Key Topics That Are Covered: 🍂 Layers of seasonal planning 📊 Tracking techniques for managing product lifecycles 📅 Creating event merchandising calendars 🔄 Adapting strategies across different retail categories 📈 Predicting demand during economic volatility 🌐 Understanding the impact of external factors (tariffs, consumer confidence) 🚪 Minimizing product entry and exit dates 🤸 Maintaining flexibility with various business models

Who is This Webinar a Great Watch for in Your Retail Business? 👗 Retail merchandising professionals 📦 Inventory managers 🤝 Buying agents 🧠 Retail strategists 📂 Category managers

Chapters:

• 0:00 – Session Introduction to Navigating Seasonal Merchandise and Planning
• 1:46 – Introduction to Celerant Technology and Michele Salerno, CGO of Celerant
• 3:10 – Introduction to ANT USA and Dmitry Goykhman, CEO, & Jeff Dillon, Director of Operations
• 4:39 – Introduction to Merchandising Metrics and Jeff Sward, Founding Partner
• 5:30 – Key Topics to Be Covered Through this Inventory Planning Webinar
• 6:56 – How Do I Know if I Have the Right Strategic Mix of Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Products?
• 10:36 – Seasonality Awareness: The Flow Logic of What and When?
• 12:36 – Being Able to Use Historical Data to Keep Track of Key Calendar Events
• 17:49 – How Detailed is Your Open-to-Buy Flow for Your Seasonal Merchandise Flow?
• 21:55 – Setting Up and Using Your Planning Buckets for Seasonality
• 24:35 – Replenishment of Core Essentials for Seasonality
• 38:26 – Is The Current economic outlook Landscape Causing You to Rethink Your OTB Process?
• 44:58 – How to Efficiently Predict Retail Demand During Economic Volatility?
• 52:12 – Past OTB Webinar Series and How to Stay Informed for Future Planning Sessions
• 53:09 – How Have Our Live Webinar Sessions Been to You as A Viewer So Far? (Comment down below! We want to hear from you!)
• 58:05 – Next Session: How to Train Retail Merchants to Plan on May 21, 2025
• 58:55 – Navigating Seasonal Merchandise and Planning Q&A with the Expert Panel