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Merchandise Budget III
Merchandise Control
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Estimating Monthly Reductions
• Markdowns are part of merchandising, particularly in apparel or fashion lines—impossible to match all consumers’ needs with certainty with respect to sizes and styles.
• Employee discounts are important in building “selling confidence” in merchandise.
• Shortages, such as errors in recording sales, receiving goods, recording markdowns, employee theft, and shoplifting.
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Reductions• Historically, department store reductions
(markdown, discounts) exceed specialty store reductions (NRMA statistics).
• Initial markon, or initial markup percentage must cover reductions:
(Gross margin $s + Markdowns $s) (Net sales $s + Markdowns $s)
• Determine the dollar amount, and then allocate to various months, consistent with NRMA statistics.
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Retail Inventory Method• Retailers must maintain accurate records of
inventory investments, such as a perpetual book inventory.
• Practicality and conservative approach.• Pre-established initial mark-up and cost-
complement (cost-multipliers), procedures.• As markdowns become a larger part of
the business, RIM method become more attractive.
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Inventory Movements Tracked at Retail at Initial Markup
Total Goods Handled Cost Retail
Beginning inventory $ 40,000$ 70,000
Purchases 144,000 240,000
- Returns (6,000) (11,000)
Net Purchases 138,000 229,000
Transfers in 2,000 3,200
- Transfers out (3,000) (4,800)
Net Transfers (1,000) (1,600)
Freight in 3,000
Markups 1,400
- Markup cancellations (400)
Net Markups 1,000
Total Goods Handled $180,000$300,000
Initial markon = $300,000 – 180,000 =$120,000 or 40%
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In-Season Adjustment to Inventory All Completed at Retail, or at the Sales Register
Total Goods Handled Cost Retail
Gross Sales$240,000
- Consumer Returns (10,000)
& Allowances
Net Sales
$230,000
Markdowns 20,000
- Markdown Cancellation (2,000)
Net Markdown 18,000
Employee Discounts 2,000
Total Reductions to Inventory$250,000
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Applying the Cost Multiplier,Cost Complement, Cost to Retail Ratio
Cumulative Markon = (total retail - total cost) / total retail: ($300,000 -
$180,000) / $300,000 = 40%
The Cost Multiplier = total retail -cumulative markon(100% -
cumulative markon%) =60%
Ending book = total goods handled at retail - total
inventory at retail reductions: $300,000 - $250,000 = $50,000
Ending book = ending book inventory at retail x costinventory at cost multiplier: $50,000 x 60% = $30,000
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Components of Retail Inventory
• Markon, initial % markup
• Reductions: Markdowns, discounts, and shortages.
• Cost complement (cost multiplier)
• Public Accounting Firm Audit
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Initial Markup & Cost Complement
• A retailer with a maintained margin (gross margin) of 35%, has planned sales of $230,000 for a season, with total reductions (markdowns) of $20,000.
• What is the retailer’s initial markup % ?• What is the cost complement, cost multiplier?
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Sample Test Question 1
• A department store has planned sales of $500,000, with $300,000 in gross margins for a season, and expects no markdowns.
• What is the retailers initial markup % ?
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Sample Test Problem 2
• A retailer with a maintained margin (gross margin) of 25% has planned sales of $400,000 for a season, with total reductions (markdowns) of $50,000.
• What is the retailer’s initial markup %?
• What is the retailer’s cost complement?
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Sample Test Question 3
• A department store forecasts gross margins $70,000 on planned sales of $180,000 for a season, with total reductions (markdowns) of $20,000.
• What is the retailers initial markup % ?
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Sample Test Question 4
• A retailer adds $120,000 markon to goods that cost the retailer $180,000. What is the initial markup %?
• What is the retailer’s cost complement?
• If markdowns of $60,000 are needed to sell all the goods, what are the net sales and the maintained markup %?
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Sample Test Question 5
• A department store with a maintained margin (gross margin) of 40% has planned sales of $500,000 for a season, with total reductions (markdowns) of $100,000.
• What is the retailer’s initial markup % ?
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Decentralized Inventory
• Retail Inventory should be in the stores—not in distribution centers
• If inventory were in a single location, tracking inventory movement, or “costing out” each sale, might not be a problem, such as at an auto dealership.
• Consider if you had highly trained specialists versus the reality of highly untrained generalists.
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Markdowns
• Frequency of – Early markdowns – Markdown cancelations– Additional mark-ons for price increases– Vendor mark-down money for close out
• Without markdowns, or highly frequent markdowns, the RIM is less important.
• A source of negotiation between buyer and seller.
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“Self-Serving Reasons” for Markdowns
• Markdowns provide motivations to move “obsolete” merchandise.
• Markdowns are usually associated with advertisements, or announced events.
• Markdown “money” provides a reason for negotiations between a buyer and seller.
• Markdown money provides an incentive to new sellers (or suppliers).
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Stock-to-Sales Ratios
• Ratio of inventory (at retail) to monthly planned sales.
• The inverse of a one-month turnover ratio.
• Historical ratios are maintained to keep store in-stock of merchandise—provided to buyers, or embedded in software.
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Basic Stock Method
• “Basic Stock” is an inventory amount “added” to planned sales and reductions to create a BOM Inventory. The difference of two components:
• Average stock: (Total sales +reductions)/turnover
• Average monthly sales: (Total sales +reductions)/months
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Basic Stock Method
54,600or 564,5324,416-78,000 stock Basic
416,246
146,500salesmonthly Ave.
000,781.88
500,146
ratenover Target tur
reductionssales planned Totalstock Average
salesmonthly Average- stock Averagestock Basic
)reductionssalesmonthly Planned(stock Basicstock BOM
season
• Calculations for a six month merchandise budget
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54,600or 564,5324,416-78,000 stock Basic
416,246
146,500salesmonthly Ave.
000,781.88
500,146
ratenover Target tur
reductionssales planned Totalstock Average
salesmonthly Average- stock Averagestock Basic
)reductionssalesmonthly Planned(stock Basicstock BOM
season
54,600 is added to each month’s projected sales + reductions to create BOM inventory
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Cautions: Stock-to-Sales Ratios
• Retailer specific—• Reported as averages—a retailer does not
mind sharing their ratios as it does not have divulge planned sales nor dollar amounts of inventory at retailer.
• The multiplier effects will “exaggerate” any anticipated shifts in planned sales without readjustments for the season.
• Historically tracked by retailer.
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Stock-to-Sales Ratios
• Ratio of inventory (at retail) to monthly planned sales.
• The inverse of a one-month turnover ratio.• Historical ratios are maintained to keep store in-stock
of merchandise—provided to employees, or embedded in software.
• Once widely reported measure of inventory levels (National Retail Federation surveys) for “benchmarking.”
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Merchandise Control• Process of collecting and evaluating data on all
aspects of each retail merchandise category, including sales, costs, shrinkage, profits, and turnover. Control is achieved through the maintenance of an inventory book where all data are evaluated.
• The determination and direction of merchandising activities, both in terms of dollars (dollar control) and in terms of units (unit merchandise control).
• Control begins with a plan, and for the merchandise category this begins with the merchandise budget.
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Merchandise Budget
• Provide the plan for determining store inventories—what inventories should be.
• Purchases and shipments of goods to stores are required to follow this plan.
• Reductions to inventory, sales, returns, markdowns, and discounts are tracked with regard to the plan.
• Shortages are deviations from the plan, the shipments in, and all recorded reductions.
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Cost Complement
• Used to convert EOM Inventory from Merchandise Budget (@retail) to cost
• Initial markup=45%,• Cost complement=55%
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Turnover: Retail versus Cost
• A retailer’s 6 month budget has planned sales for season of $200,000, a maintained margin of 30%, an average EOM inventory of 80,000 and an initial markup of 45%.
• By estimating markdowns, what is the turnover for period?
• Using cost of goods sold, what is the turnover for the period?
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• Initial markup = (Gross margin + markdowns)(Planned sales + markdowns)
• Cost complement = 1 – Initial markup
• Cost of goods = 1 - Maintained markup (gross margin)
• Turnover = Planned/Inventory@retail• Turnover = Cost of goods/Inventory@cost
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18.380,000
545,254
000,80
54,545000,200Turnover
markdowns545,54
;.5530,000
60,000.45200,000)(.45
;200,000
60,000 .45
markdownsSales
markdownsmargin Gross%45markon Initial
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Estimate markdowns and determining turnover
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18.344,000
140,000
55.*000,80
60,000-200,000
complementCost *Inventory Inventory
margin gross - salesNet sold goods ofCost
Inventory
sold goods ofCost Turnover
@retail@cost
@cost
Turnover is identical to cost method
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Seasonality: Why We Need a Buying Process• If demand were predictable• If demand didn’t change with style and
fashion trends• If there was no complications due to
reductions• If there weren’t differences among suppliers
to changing styles or demand• If there was no differences among competitors
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Intertype Competition• Single-line, “limited line,” specialty retailers
“Kiosk” based specialists• Category specialist, category killer• Family clothing stores• Department store• Discount department stores• Warehouse club or supercenter
• Local seasonality combined with seasonality of the merchandise line tends to favor…
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Assumptions
• Change in the seasonal characteristics of consumer demand for a merchandise line is negligible, or “geological”
• Intertype competition shifts in demand are “revolutionary” in comparison
• Management of the merchandise budget may vary slightly from retailer-to-retailer, however, the nature of supply provides standardization.
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Seasonal Characteristics
• Predictable, recurrent seasons– “Back to school,” school supplies– Christmas Holiday, outdoor decorations– Lawn mowers, lawn fertilizer, bedding plants
• Less predictable– Men’s swimwear, shorts– Sweaters, sweater vests– Children’s “dressy” clothes
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Intertype Competition• “Generalists”
– Discount Department Stores– Supercenters & Warehouse Club– Conventional Department Stores– “Dollar” Stores, “Big Lots”– Home Centers (Lowe’s, Home Depot)
• “Specialists” or Limited Line Retailers– Men’s, Women’s, & Family Clothing Stores– Limited-line sporting goods– Home electronics– Toy, hobbies, and games
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We typically, we assign certain product to classifications:
• Men’s underwear versus women’s underwear?
• Men’s dress shirts, collars, sizes—”expectancy” of standards of fit, neck size.
• Men’s shoes versus women’s shoes
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What are the implications of seasonal merchandise and seasonal geography on retailing structure and competition?
• What conditions would be hardest for a year-round specialty retailer (limited assortment)?
• What combinations of seasonality favor a general merchandise, wide assortment retailer?
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Inventory Control
• The validity of all of the prior discussion is contingent on merchandise that was ordered actually making it into retail display space and remaining there until the sale is recorded at cash register.
• Opportunities for fraud and theft are abundant on and off the sales floor.
• How can the buyer be assured that the planned purchases arrive, and are displayed, on the selling floor?
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Monitoring “Issues”
• Monitoring is important when employees are in charge of operations and separated from ownership.
• When the owner of the store is also the manager, the buyer, and inventory control manager—there is no need to monitor.
• When the manager of the store is also the buyer and responsible for inventory control…
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Avoid the following practices as a buyer:
• Spending time with vendors outside of the buying offices.
• Spending too much time “receiving” goods at the stores.
• Fraternizing with individuals within your own firm’s accounting division.
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Purchasing Receiving
Sales Shipping
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Retailer
Supplier
FinancialIntermediary
Carrier
Purchase Order
Bill of Lading
Invoice
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Three areas of concern• Planned purchases from merchandise budget
become purchase orders—do purchase orders follow the plan—or exceed plan?
• Purchases orders become invoices—do the quantities and prices match the purchase orders? Is vendor allowed to substitute?
• Receiving: Do the goods received match the goods invoiced? Are they in saleable condition? Who determines if merchandise is returned?
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Merchandise Budgets are Plan for Control
• Do purchases orders correspond to budget plans?
• Can all accounts payable be assigned to specific budget plans and from vendors in the plan?
• Do actual goods in stock in stores correspond to planned BOM inventories and sales.