Retail Link 4: Planning & Forecasting - Canada
January 14, 2020 | Live Online Webinar (CA-EST)
$650 USD
Class Description
Keep your products on the Walmart shelf by using Retail Link® data to improve your ability to plan
An inaccurate forecast costs your company sales and profit, impacts your credibility, and eventually damage key relationships within Walmart. This course will teach you how to make informed decisions that will improve the performance of your business and enhance your credibility as a business partner.
You Will Learn...
What to review in your current business to assist with planning
How to plan for new items
Why innovation is important to your buyer (category manager)
How the forecast is created
Why forecast accuracy is so important
How to create, run, and retrieve the reports below and when to use them:
- Supplier Performance Scorecard
- Demand Forecast Review - POS
- Demand Forecast Review - Forecast
- Demand Forecast Review - Instock (RL)
- Replenishment Instock
- Corporate POS Forecast
- Store Level Forecast
- Corporate Level Forecast
- Exception Based Reports
Why take this class?
A roadmap to sales increases. This class takes your understanding of Retail LInk® into a new height as you develop practical ways to put your knowledge to work building your Walmart business.
All 8th & Walton classes for Walmart suppliers selling in Canada are taught by Heather Reid of the Greater Toronto Area. For 22 years, Reid worked at Walmart organizing and facilitating its Retail Link® and other training programs. She has taught over 2,000 suppliers.
Meet your teacher, Heather Reid
This is an all-day class. From 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
Cost: $650
Save 10% when purchasing 3 or more packaged classes.
- Accounting, Invoicing & Deductions - Canada
- Retail Link® 1 - Basics Canada
- Retail Link® 2: Decision Support - Canada
- Retail Link® 3: Analysis - Canada
- GRS - Demand Canada
- GRS - Fulfillment Canada
- Retail Analytics and Storytelling - Canada
- Retail Link 4: Planning & Forecasting - Canada
Requirements
- Register using your supplier email address
- Have authorized access to Retail Link®
- Have your Retail Link® ID and password on hand
- You will need a laptop with wireless capabilities and Excel
- Webinar students: Webinars are priced per student; only one student per registration. You will need a web camera in your computer. Dual monitors (one for the webinar, one for reports) are recommended.
In order to produce valid reports, your company should be shipping to Walmart prior to taking this class. Since our classes do not use dummy data, if you are not shipping to Walmart, you will have no data with which to produce reports.
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8th & Walton, LLC is in no way associated with or endorsed by Walmart Stores, Incorporated or its affiliates. All references to Walmart Stores, Incorporated as well as its affiliates, trademarks and brands are used in strict accordance with the Fair Use Doctrine and are not intended to imply that 8th & Walton, LLC is a Walmart Stores, Incorporated vehicle for advertising or for any other commercial purposes. Retail Link® is a registered trademark of Walmart Stores, Inc. Our Retail Link® courses and workshops are facilitated using documentation and simulations developed by experienced users. They are never taught using actual data or with unauthorized or inappropriate Retail Link® access. Our classrooms are configured in a way and tools are provided that maximize security and privacy, to lessen the potential for participants to see the data on other participants' screens.