Understanding the Line Review Process
Retail Training Objectives
Learn how a buyer makes modular decisions during the line review process. Understanding the expectations of suppliers, packaging requirements and needs, vendor pack decisions and opportunities for additional items gives your company an advantage.
Approach your line review with the knowledge and skills that level the playing field and give your products their best shot.
In this course, you will learn:
- Importance of line reviews
- Various types of line reviews
- Steps in a line review
- Expectations of suppliers for line reviews
- Impact of "pack-and-a-half" rule on suppliers
- Packaging obstacles to avoid
- How a supplier can identify opportunities “to sell” from a line review
- Constraints from which a buyer merchandises
- Best practices for line reviews
