Day 1, 14:00 — Main Stage ● Roundtables
Interactive Roundtables - Choose Your Topic & Get Talking!
Resilient Planning
1. How to Trade the Business When the Forecast Is Wrong
Mid-season pivots, in-season reforecasting cadences, and the decisions that separate brands that adapt from those that write off the season.
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Resilient Planning
2. Wholesale to Owned Retail: What Planning Doesn’t Tell You
Why agility has to be designed in at buy stage, not bolted on mid-season, and how to structure your open-to-buy to move when the market moves.
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Smart Assortment & Inventory
3. Increasing Initial Buy Precision to Break the Markdown Cycle
The upstream decisions that create markdown pressure downstream and how sharper buying logic reduces the need to discount your way out.
Smart Assortment & Inventory
4. Balancing Stock and Risk
How much inventory is enough when demand remains uncertain? The discussion will look at how merchandise planners balance availability, excess stock, markdown exposure and changing supply conditions.
Smart Assortment & Inventory
5. From Channel Plans to Omnichannel Demand
Moving from channel-by-channel planning to one connected view of demand. What needs to change across data, processes and ways of working to make this a reality?
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Day 2, 12:25 — Main Stage ● Roundtables
Interactive Roundtables - Choose Your Topic & Get Talking!
Resilient Planning
1. Protecting Your Margin When Landed Costs Change Mid-Season
Practical approaches to cost shock: vendor negotiation, price architecture adjustments, and the point at which you pull the plug on a committed buy.
Smart Assortment & Inventory
2. Finding the Right Balance Between Core Basics and Newness
How to protect your replenishment base while staying commercially relevant — and where most brands get the ratio wrong.
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People & Collaboration
3. Plan & Trade as One: Connecting Planning, E-Commerce & Digital
How do we bring planning, trading, e-commerce and digital teams together to make faster, more connected commercial decisions?
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People & Collaboration
4. Who Really Owns the Buy?
When merchants, planners and finance disagree on quantities, who makes the final call? This roundtable explores how teams balance instinct, data and financial targets to reach better buying decisions.
