Retail Math & Excel: How to plan & evaluate buys & sales

Apparel industry

Retail Math & Excel: How Big Companies Actually Plan Their Business

This course teaches the retail math and Excel foundations used inside large companies to plan sales, inventory, and profitability.

If you want to break into or succeed in corporate buying, apparel planning, allocation, or inventory analyst roles, these are the core skills you’re expected to understand—often without being taught them clearly.

• Core retail math metrics used by buyers, planners, and merchants
  (sales, inventory, sell-through, AUR, Markup)

• How these metrics connect to real business decisions

• How Excel is used to plan and track bought and designed inventory

• How to structure spreadsheets the way corporate teams expect

• How to think like a buyer, planner, and analyst—not just calculate numbers

Most retail math content explains formulas in isolation.
This course shows how the math fits into the job:

Who This Course Is For

• Aspiring or early-career assistant buyers,  allocators, and inventory analysts

• Professionals transitioning into corporate retail or apparel roles

• Sales or merchandising professionals who want to better understand how decisions are made

• Boutique buyers looking to be more profitable

What You Need

• Basic Excel familiarity (opening files, tapping into a cell)

• No prior retail planning experience required

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