I have been reviewing your SS16 forecasts with Senior Management in PDX and I have to admit we are all especially surprised with the results. In Portland we spoke of an expectation for the region of 30%+ for this collection with some markets (coming off lower bases) capable of even greater results, yet our consolidated forecast as it stands has us coming in LESS THAN SS15. This news has not been received well and we need to be doing much better than this. This is how your SS16 forecast currently sits:
Region COUNTRY SS16 Forecast Units Sum of Forecast $ SS15 Units SS15 Sum of Total Orders $ % of increase Units over LY % of increase $ over LY
APAC TH 8,592 $ 246,882 13,032 $ 364,631 -34% -32%
I am hoping that you worked on your OTB (open to buy) numbers in the original templates you were sent, but as Amee explained these contained US wholesale NOT distributor prices so they will be over-inflated … and then the SMU templates didn’t have any $ calculations in them as they had not been inserted. Both of these circumstances, I am hoping have led us to where we currently are.
Attached are both of your forecast templates, now updated with the distributor prices in each. Can you please fine-tune these now that you have the correct information, to reflect a much healthier growth for our important KEEN business in Thailand and return them to Amee and I by close of business next Wednesday, 8th July?
Any questions as always please ask … I am looking forward to seeing what we are really capable of and to sharing this with the Executive Team next week.