The Global Financial Crisis, natural disasters and the increasing globalisation of the retail environment have all resulted in increasing uncertainty for retailers. Inventory management and productivity are taking on increasing importance if retailers are going to survive and prosper. The role of merchandise planning in a retail business is therefore more and more critical. Retailers, particularly multi store retailers, now have available to them massive quantities of data to assist them in this planning process but many businesses are not seeing the level of improvement they should be getting. Driving Profitability through Merchandise Planning is a course to assist those responsible for the planning and procurement of merchandise for retailers to get the level of cut through required if businesses are going to prosper.