merchandise planning Archives - Columbus Consulting

Mary Beth DePizzol

Mary Beth is an Associate Partner at Columbus Consulting with extensive experience in Replenishment, Allocation, Demand Planning & Merchandise Planning, System Implementations, and Change Management. She has a proven track record of success in strategic demand ...

Kevin Dozier

Kevin brings rich leadership experience in building and growing operational infrastructures across multiple retail categories for corporations in many phases of their operation from start-up to maturity. A strong leader known for influencing stakeholders and ...

Robin Gray

Robin Gray is a Principal at Columbus Consulting with extensive experience as a Planning and Allocation executive. He is a results-driven leader with a track record of driving margin growth and building world-class teams. Robin ...

Planning & Merchandising

Project Type Integrated Planning Client Type Global Fashion Brand Challenge The current sales forecasting process across wholesale and retail was supported by spreadsheets with limited analytical capabilities and was not able to scale to support business growth. There was ...

Global Fashion Brand-Merchandise Planning & Inventory Management

The retail and wholesale teams required better reporting and the ability to drive decisions with more accurate and consistent data...

Fashion Brand-Omni & Merchandise Planning Transformation

Business was segmented by channel and unable to plan for the omni customer journey. Leadership determined the need to unlock a more detailed level of...

Michael Wright

Michael is an accomplished retail consultant, primarily in retail/CPG, advising on process improvement, technology best practices, and managing technology implementation and deployment. Before joining Columbus, Michael served as senior director and senior digital expert at leading ...

Drew Wilmot

Drew is a Partner at Columbus Consulting and a retail specialist in the retail and wholesale sectors. He is a results-driven leader with a strong background in global projects, product management, and consulting. Drew’s global ...

Tito Thomas

Tito is a Principal with Columbus Consulting and a seasoned retail consultant with extensive experience designing and developing systems for retail clients across multiple industry sectors, including specialty apparel, accessories, footwear, department store, discount retail ...

Sam Taylor

Sam is an accomplished retail consultant with extensive experience in retail system implementation, merchandise planning, and quality assurance (QA). Known for his expertise in data validation and system rollouts, Sam ensures seamless execution while maintaining ...

Stuart Tattum

Stuart is a Managing Partner at Columbus Consulting. He combines deep business and IT expertise to drive transformational results. With a proven track record of delivering high-quality, bottom-line-focused outcomes, Stuart has led major business process ...

Brad Sterling

Brad is a Partner with Columbus Consulting. He is a seasoned retail consultant with expertise in leading retail planning and inventory management initiatives. Brad has experience across various retail sectors, leading complex and large-scale business ...

David Schmitz

David is a Principal at Columbus Consulting and a seasoned technology leader specializing in inventory planning solution architecture. David has excelled in roles ranging from technical to functional, offering a wealth of expertise in system architecture, ...

Jarrod Rywolt

Jarrod is a Principal at Columbus Consulting and has extensive expertise in providing business consulting services for design, configuration, and testing of Merchandise Financial Planning systems for international retailers, including long-range Strategic planning, Budget Planning, ...

Susan Riley

Susan is a Partner at Columbus Consulting. She has extensive experience in merchandise planning and allocation and has led numerous system implementations. Susan specializes in large-scale change initiatives and comprehensive training programs to drive organizational ...

Tom Qualter

Proven Record Of Successful System Implementation Tom Qualter has over 30 years of retail experience, from store level to Senior Manager of Merchandise Systems. He has held many roles during that time including functional, support, design ...

Tim Phelan

Tim is a seasoned IT consultant with extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise level planning and forecasting solutions for retailers. His well rounded background gives him the ability to effectively fill both business and technical ...

Justin Perzov

Justin is a seasoned IT consultant with extensive experience in delivering and implementing advanced retail technology solutions. He specializes in the design, development and automation of complex Excel tools and Anaplan models consistently driving business process ...

Stuart Leighty

Stuart is a Partner at Columbus Consulting and a seasoned leader who has successfully driven large-scale process and systems implementations, integrated organization and change management to ensure sustainable success. Stuart excels in building collaborative relationships ...

Michael Krenesky

Michael is an accomplished retail consultant with extensive experience leading process improvement, technology best practices, and managing technology implementation and deployment. He specializes in planning and allocation in retail and wholesale organizations. Michael’s focus on ...

Sunita Gupta

Sunita is a Principal at Columbus Consulting with deep expertise in leading complex technology transformation projects. Combining strategic leadership with hands-on technical knowledge, she drives results across omni-channel, merchandising, finance, inventory, and store operations. Sunita’s ...

Brad Eckhart

Brad is a Partner at Columbus Consulting and a seasoned management consultant experienced in retail inventory management, business process improvement, and operational efficiency. He collaborates with cross-functional teams to align business objectives with data-driven strategies. ...

Vicki Alvarado

Vicki is a Principal with Columbus Consulting with extensive experience in Merchandise and Assortment Planning. She specializes in system selection, documentation, business design, implementation and training. Vicki has led large global retail/wholesale planning projects helping ...

Stuart Aldridge

Stuart is a charismatic project leader who has consistently led businesses through process and systems innovations to improve and enhance their planning and analytical capabilities. He specializes in a balanced, hands-on approach to projects, bringing subject ...

Bob Affinito

Bob is a Principal at Columbus Consulting with extensive experience in complex system solutions and the integration of business strategy with technological implementation. Leading projects, from both functional and technological tracks, Bob is both a ...

Talbots

Change Management Behind the Red Door: Talbots Modernizes with Planning Process Reboot Download This Case Study Talbots has nostalgic and entrepreneurial roots, self-described as a company “inspired by a joy of discovery.” A 1947 ad placed in ...

Managing Your MP&A Team Through COVID – 19

By Richard Pedott Many of us have had to manage a crisis before. It may have been a small scale one such as a natural disaster confined to individual markets like Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy ...

Modeling Your Short Term and Long-Term Merchandise Planning & Forecasting Strategy

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET Columbus Consulting is offering a 3-part series on Winning Leadership: Managing Your Business and MP&A Team Through COVID-19. This series will share an executive management toolkit ...

How to Lead Your MP&A Team Through COVID-19

Thursday, Apr 23, 2020 11:00 am – 11:45 am Columbus Consulting is offering a 3-part series on Winning Leadership: Managing Your Business and MP&A Team Through COVID-19. This series will share an executive management toolkit for ...

Project Management in Merchandise Planning and Allocation – Understanding the Basics

By Columbus Consulting With any major business undertaking, proper project management plays a huge role in the success or failure of the endeavor. Managing a project from the initial idea, through planning and execution, can be ...

Grading, Clustering and Store Attributing – Understanding the Basics

By Columbus Consulting Retailers are always looking for ways to achieve the highest margins and least amount of markdowns for merchandise at each store. The key is to assign the merchandise where it is most likely ...

Planning & managing the critical aspects of a full merchandising season

By Charlotte Kula-Przezwanski, Columbus Consulting and Mikko Kärkkäinen, Relex January 2017 In this co-authored white paper with Relex, we discuss the practical aspects of executing a disciplined and organized planning and buying process, and we identify the ...

Planning and Managing the Critical Aspects of a Full Merchandising Season

By Charlotte Kula-Przezwanski
Retailers could learn a lot from the Italian micro-economist Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto, who in 1906 came up with the principle that is sometimes known as the 80/20 rule.

Merchandise Planning – Understanding the Basics

By Columbus Consulting Every planning professional or retail executive knows the answer to this question, right? In reality, though, it’s not that simple. Merchandise Planning (or Merchandise Financial Planning) means different things to different people depending ...

Drapers Roundtable Breakfast

By Charlotte Kula-Przezwanski
Over more than just coffee and croissants in a nice upmarket London hotel, merchandise and planning experts debated if NOW was the time to move off spreadsheets and onto more formal planning solutions.

Building Bridges Between Finance and Merchandising

When building bridges between Finance and Merchandising, Columbus Consulting now has all the answers. Columbus Consulting International (CCI) announced today that they are helping to close the last gaps between finance and merchandise planning by creating ...

2016 Thinking Retail Webinar

Planning New Life out of Old Brick and Mortar Thursday, 9th June 3:00 pm BST – 10:00am Eastern Duration: 40 minutes While online sales grow you also need to increase your Store profitability. Today’s shop anywhere anytime culture puts ...

See the Big Picture 2016

See the Big Picture: How Best to Expand Internationally with Integrated Merchandise Planning for Retail & Wholesale Channels LIVE WEBINAR Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3pm GMT/10am EST Your consumers today expect to find whatever they need whenever, wherever they interact ...

“Unloved” Merchandisers

Following the successful B&M Summit held in London on the 22nd September, We thought you would all find the following article by Essential Retail really interesting with some content from our very own Charlotte Kula-Przezwanski ...