Inventory Management Certification

Inventory Management is a sixteen-session course designed to teach owners and/or store buyers to create buying strategies and routines that get the best discounts, maintain cash flow, work within budgets, and integrate with the store’s marketing and merchandising. The skills students learn will help them analyze and improve their buying process. 

This is the certification version of the course.  You'll be working one-on-one with an instructor to move through the classes, doing all of the homework assignments. You'll have six months to watch the 16 class recordings and complete the assignments.

This certification version is designed for:

• People who are employed by or who own a retail bookstore (this includes a mobile or pop-up shop) that has been in existence for at least 1 year
• Stores that haves 25%+ new book inventory, as the skills and strategies taught in the course are designed for the new book trade. 

The course is not intended for used-only stores or online-only stores.

The course will teach owners and/or store buyers to create buying strategies and routines that get the best discounts, maintain cash flow, work within budgets, and integrate with the store’s marketing and merchandising.

If you would like to do this via self-study, please see Inventory Management Self-Guided. The cost of that course is $295.

PBS courses are supported by the Indie bookstore industry, and are intended only for owners and staff members at Independent Bookstores that are members of their regional trade associations and/or of the American Booksellers Association.