Oasis Day 3

Today was significantly better than expected. I was dreading doing the daily sales report by myself this morning but it was a lot less painful than I thought. I think my mood lifted when I'd restored faith in myself that I could actually do it un-aided.

For the first hour as I said I completed the daily sales for jersey and denim, and was slightly relieved I didn't have to do accessories. I then completed checking the cost prices from the day before, which is one of the jobs I liked so things only began to get better. Steph had mentioned adding images from the Oasis site onto the Best & Worst spreads the day before but I think I ran out of time so today all I had to do was get these ready and print and photocopy them ready for each departments meeting with the directors - trying to do this when your printer wont cooperate is a bit of a challenge but got there in the end. As the name suggests, these are a selection or up to 10 of the best and worst sellers from the previous season. As they're focussing on SS14, this involved using SS13 information to help see what they wanted to use this season, colour or style wise.

I was also shown how to add to the Ratio Banks. These are (yes, you guessed it) spreadsheets that work out the ratio of what stock is sold of a certain item and if we over or underestimated the amount of stock we've got. For example on a certain top we expected to sell 3% of it but actually sold 8%, which shows us we need to be sending more out as it's clearly a big hit. When I'm explained these things, I understand it, but trying to explain it in my own words is such a struggle, gah.

Using my knowledge of the daily sales, I also learnt how to check these for whole sale. As you may or may not know, Oasis are also available on ASOS and on other sites such Zalando, Koovs and Little Woods, so we need to make sure the cost price, product code, name of the product etc are correct so they know what they're selling the product at and what to call it. So this is important. As I was saying to Steph earlier, I've seen some brands on ASOS selling things at a cheaper price than the brand itself and it's obviously down to this - pretty cool!

I think that about sums up today, the only real thing I struggled with was checking the whole sale DS so not bad!

People I've met count: 8
No. of things learnt: 12
Brain ache scale: 3/10 - getting better.
See ya tomorrow!