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Faculty Activities
FMM
Professors Participate in Mini Retreat
FIT's Critical Thinking Initiative Team
hosted a mini retreat workshop, Separating Fact from
Fiction on the Web, on Friday, October 16. FMM
Professors Renee Cooper, Nancy Kaplan, Maury Johnson, Joseph
Antee, Sharon White and Janice Messinger attended.
After opening remarks, the group was
addressed by Brian Fallon (Writing Center) on "Designing an
Effective Research Assignment" and N.J. Wolfe and Helen Lane
(Library) on "Thinking Critically about Research".
The presentations were followed by a
hands-on workshop with lab exercises. Participants
were divided into groups and after examining specific sites
on the web, they were challenged to evaluate the resources
for accuracy, currency and objectivity.
FMM Professor and Graduate
Attend JDA Seminar
In September, Professor Naomi Gross
attended a seminar hosted by JDA and led by Bill Pattberg at
PVH. Bill Pattberg is the Director of Retail IT for Van
Heusen, Bass, Izod, and Calvin Klein Retail stores. Susan
Reda, Executive Editor for Stores Magazine closed out the
morning speaking about general market conditions.
Joining Naomi were several planning
executives from Brooks Brother's including an FMM graduate,
Kate Fusco. Other retailers represented included
J.Crew, Liz Claiborne, Kenneth Cole, Urban Brands, and
Modell’s.
Kate Fusco (FMM
Graduate) on the left
Wayne Usie from JDA introduced the
morning session. He shared insight from his exposure to the
many companies he works with: retailers are moving toward
market driven assortments, strengthening the pull method of
inventory management. To that end, Bill Pattberg shared
PVH’s size scaling process that builds assortments and
allocations based on historical results. This provides
better alignment with customer needs.
The topic was “size scaling” and covered
an add-on technology to JDA Allocation. PVH uses Allocation
for both replenishment and fashion allocation.
Result: PVH/Van Heusen experienced a lift
in Gross Margin, a decrease in inventory, an increase in
sales and an improvement in Service Level.
FMM Assistant Professor
Published
Joseph
Antee, Assistant Professor in FMM, has published a third
article
in FASHION
MANUSCRIPT; this article is in the May 2009 edition.
Professor
Antee’s article
focuses on consulting for fashion companies from a global
perspective,
specifically Europe. Since January 2007 Professor Antee has
consulted for a
fashion retailer in Spain, currently serving as a member of
the Board of
Directors. The article highlights differences between
merchandising
practices in the USA and abroad.
FMM Professor Wins Award
for Excellence in Teaching
Nancy Sheridan is
the recipient of a Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Teaching from the State University of
new York. Nancy, an assistant
professor of FMM, received the award at
FIT's commencement
ceremonies at Radio City Music Hall on May
19.
The Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching is presented for
extraordinary professional achievement.
The primary criterion is teaching
skill, but scholarship, professional
growth, and assistance to students are
additional selection factors.
Professor
Sheridan has taken a leadership role in curriculum
development. She revised the
International FMM curriculum for FIT's
school in Florence to meet the needs of
foreign students, resulting in a
doubling of enrollment figures over the
previous semester. She created
and conducted a graduate-level course in
Team Development and
Negotiating Skills at the Chulalongkorn
University in Bangkok. In 2008,
Professor Sheridan was selected by FIT to
teach a class in Retail
Merchandising at the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton Business
School.
Her
other contributions to FIT include serving as International
Coordinator to work with faculty and
advise students at FIT schools
abroad. She is a member and past
chair of the search committee for
new faculty.
James, Nancy, Nicole and Jim Sheridan
FMM Faculty poses for
Spring 2009 Photo
Faculty Visit Brooks Brothers
On Tuesday January 27, 2009 Naomi Gross coordinated a
visit at Brooks Brothers corporate office
in Manhattan to
meet with Heidi Lonki, System
Administrator for JDA
products. Heidi provided a hands on
workshop for faculty
who teach Inventory management (FM 322) to
gain
familiarity with the new interface (Client
Server) that FIT
implemented over winterim. Faculty
who participated in
addition to Naomi Gross were
Nancy Kaplan, Vincent Quan,
Jane Werner and Gary
Wolf.
Faculty Attends NRF Conference
Nancy Sheridan, Naomi Gross and Joseph Antee at the N.R.F.
Conference
The
98th Annual N.R.F. Convention & Expo,
commonly
known as THE BIG SHOW was held at the
Jacob Javits
Center January 11- 14, 2009. The
convention included
presentations from multiple C.E.O.'s and
retail executives
representing both national and
international companies. The
theme for this year's convention was,
PROFITABLE
SOLUTIONS START HERE.
FMM faculty members,
who attended seminars as well as
volunteered to assist with seminar
presentations, included
Nancy Sheridan, Jean
Jacullo, Anne Appel, Naomi Gross and
Joseph Antee.
The event was coordinated by Jane
Werner.
Also in attendance was FMM student Alyssa
Ruiz.
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