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Space Planning & Shelf Management

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View NWACC's Space Planning course information and outcomes, required pre-requisites and class schedule. 

Prerequisites:

Before registering for Space Planning courses, one of the following pre-requisites must be satisfied:

  • Successful completion of the NWACC Certified Retail Analyst program
  • One or more years of retail analytical work experience, working either for a supplier or retailer. Must have solid knowledge of Microsoft Office.


Introduction to Shelf-Management and Space Planning course outcomes:

  • Identify and explain the merchandising strategies of a modular.
  • Explain how to use product and fixture libraries to develop planograms/modulars.
  • Illustrate how to use ProSpace software to develop a planogram.
  • Determine product placement and space allocation while building planograms/modulars.
  • Use highlights, labels, charts and reports to help analyze product placement and presentation.
  • Identify items that have too much or too little inventory.

This course is to be taken before the Advanced Shelf Management course.


Advanced Shelf Management and Space Planning course outcomes:

  • Explain the retail modular process.
  • Create analytical tools to monitor performance of the product assortment.
  • Demonstrate how to group planograms/modulars by geographic store clusers of store formats.
  • Explain and demonstrate how to create new and modify existing planograms/modulars to increase profitability and sales.
  • Show how to update and compare performance across planograms/modulars.
  • Demonstrate how to use Retail Link data with ProSpace charts, tables, labels and highlighting.

 

Spring 2025 Class Schedule

View the Space Planning & Shelf Management class schedule for spring 2025 below. All classes will be held online using MS Teams (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.).

Important Dates: 

  • 1/11/25–5/9/25 - Spring semester
  • 1/1/25 - New Years Day - Closed 
  • 1/20/25 - MLK Day - Closed
  • Spring Break TDB 


Class Schedule

Course # 

Course Name 

Date

Day

Time 

XRTL 5004 

Intro Shelf Management / Space Planning 

3/10/25-5/9/25

Thursdays 

6:00pm -9:00pm 

XRTL 5006 

Adv Shelf Management / Space Planning 

3/22/25-5/2/25

Thursdays 

6:00pm -9:00pm