Burlington is a major off-price retailer selling items such as clothing, accessories, home items, beauty products, toys, and more. The company, with over 1100 stores, is based in Burlington, NJ, and holds a spot on the Fortune 500 list. I worked in the Planning & Allocations department of the business, which deals with how product gets distributed to the stores.<\/p>\n
My internship in the Planning & Allocations department was a rotational program, mirroring the three main roles within the department. During the Allocation rotation, I allocated product to stores based on certain criteria, as well as sales and inventory history. Within the Location Planning portion, I analyzed the regional performance of certain product categories based on financial data. Finally, within the Chain Planning rotation, I looked at the performance of product categories on an entire chain level to project sales for future seasons.<\/p>\n
For my main project, I worked alongside eight other interns within both the Buying and Planning departments to come up with a strategy for a certain product category for a future sales season. Using trend research, financial history analysis, and forecasting, we presented our strategic recommendations to executives on how the company should move forward with this product category.<\/p>\n
Through this internship, I was able to gain many skills in sales forecasting, financial analysis, merchandising, and chain planning. I also leveraged software platforms such as Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and Oracle to learn what goes into the business of planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29799,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","points","type-points","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/sruparelia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/sruparelia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/sruparelia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/points"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/sruparelia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/sruparelia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/sruparelia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/sruparelia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}