Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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RFM 3300 - Fashion Buying and Assortment Planning
This course covers retail merchandising and management principles related to buying and controlling fashion merchandise. Emphasis is placed on store inventory management, profit generation, planning, buying, and controlling merchandise assortments. Retail mathematics problems are included and advanced use of spreadsheets is incorporated into course content.
Requisites: RFM 1010 and (MIS 2011 or QBA 1720 or 1721) and (ACCT 1005 or 1010)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to apply critical thinking to merchandising operations.
- Students will be able to demonstrate ability to apply basic merchandising formulas for retail operations.
- Students will be able to identify and measure various components contributing to retail and fashion product development systems profitability.
- Students will be able to articulate and use retail merchandising principles and terminology.
- Students will be able to discuss and explain merchandising factors affecting profit.
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