Fashion merchandise categories
•Fashion merchandise categories are in demand only for a relatively short period of time.
•New products are continually introduced into these categories, making the existing products obsolete.
•Forecasting the sales for fashion merchandise categories is much more challenging than doing so for staple categories. Buyers for fashion merchandise categories have much less flexibility in correcting forecasting errors.
•Due to the short selling season for fashion merchandise, buyers do not have a chance to reorder additional merchandise after an initial order is placed.