Inventory & Sales Performance Measurement,
Retail Operations Best Practices
Jim’s first-hand experience in helping retailers deal with the challenges of day-to-day retail operations and merchandising management makes him a highly knowledgeable and experienced Trainer and Speaker on this subject.
His Workshops on Store Management, Store Promotions, Merchandise Presentation, Customer Service, Staff Hiring and Training, Sales Forecasting, Inventory Budgeting, Inventory Reductions, Open-to-Buy, Turnover, GMROII, RIA, Buying Skills, Negotiating with Suppliers and many more are renowned for their practical approach and easy to implement strategies and techniques.
Jim can work with his clients to create entirely individualized training programs to meet their specific requirements.
One such program is the custom designed "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Starting & Running A Retail Store" for Associations or Manufacturers. A fully personalized version of Jim’s new book and workshop complete with examples, illustrations and documentation geared specifically to the Association members’ industry or the Manufacturer's industry and made available exclusively to the Association for its member retailers or the Manufacturer for its retail store clients. The objective is to provide the Association or the Manufacturer with an opportunity to show a unique benefit and add value for its members/clients by offering them training that will:
- Improve their sales and profit by exposing them to best practices in merchandising, buying, personnel management, sales management, using computer technology and customer service, geared specifically to their industry
- Motivate them to change their practices by providing them with a ready for implementation improvement plan that addresses their specific issues
Training Package Inclusions:
- Fully customized "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Starting & Running A Retail Store" book, video or CD-ROM. It includes tests, role-plays, and other interactive learning tools to further enhance the learning and make it more fun
- 2-Day Workshop to deliver the training (or 4-Day Train-the-Trainer Seminar)
- "Retail Management Certification Test" used to ensure that the book/video/CD-ROM has been read/viewed and mastered by the participants. It can also be used to evaluate potential managers before promotion
PS: Associations and Manufacturers can choose either 1 or 2 or 1 & 2 together (number 3 is always included).
