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 and training. Prior to joining Columbus Consulting in 2007, he has worked with all of the divisions of L Brands, Hills Department Stores, Meldisco Shoes and Rent-A-Center.
Experience
Maurice’s – Lead documentation of Merchandise Financial Plan, Assortment Planning & Central Planning
Documentation for lift and shift of systems to a new host system
Interviewed all in the Planning Organization to understand their methodology
Developed process flow diagrams
Developed testing scenarios to ensure full functionality
Ann Taylor – Custom Assortment Planning Testing
Worked with multi-national team to contribute to the testing as development was completed
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Ulta Beauty – Project Manager, Merchandise Planning Functional Lead
Responsible for the upgrade, troubleshooting and fixing existing system challenges for the migration of existing JDA 2008 version to JDA 2018.1
Enhancements to current Planning
DSW Shoes – Merchandise Planning Functional Lead
Multiple projects, including Enterprise Planning, Store Planning, Forecasting, and combining e-Commerce into existing Enterprise Planning