Assortment Decisions That Support Strategy

 

Overview:  Help teams strengthen their approach to assortment by connecting strategy, shopper needs, process, analytics, productivity, and category structure to better keep/add/delete decisions. This topic helps make assortment thinking more disciplined, practical, and aligned to business priorities. 

How This Can be Tailored:

This session can be delivered virtually or in person and customized to the assortment decisions, constraints, and business realities most relevant to your team. Depending on your needs, the session can incorporate your category roles, assortment guidelines, internal reports, item rank data, customer expectations, product structure, or category-specific challenges so the learning is tied to the actual decisions participants need to make. 

Possible Takeaways:

  • Participants may leave with:

    • assortment evaluation templates
    • keep/add/delete decision frameworks
    • item productivity or laddering examples
    • assortment discussion prompts
    • case-study exercises or sample working tools

Possible eLearning Prework:

  • Possible eLearning prework may include:

    • Basic Assortment Analysis
    • Fundamentals of Category Management
    • Understanding the Shopper

Delivery Format:
Available virtually or in person, and can also be integrated into a broader blended learning solution. 

 

Prepare your team for success in the ever-changing industry by mastering adaptive category management techniques tailored to contemporary challenges and opportunities.

Related to: Category Levers

Instructor-Led Training FAQ:

  • What will individuals learn? Each training session (in-person or virtual) has well-defined learning objectives that focus on the most important elements of the topic area.  This is tweaked to meet the unique and specific needs of your team or organization.
  • What is required of individuals? Instructor-led training is designed to be highly interactive, requiring individual engagement online through features like chat, whiteboards, breakout rooms, contests, quizzes, and more. Participants may also have prework assignments and/or post-class homework.
  • Want to customize your training?  Opt for customized training to zero in on areas for skill enhancement. Tailoring your training allows a focus on precise needs, offering flexibility with extended or additional sessions. Customized sessions can also be integrated and complemented with other topics to create a bespoke custom training program.