SIRRMER013 — Develop visual merchandising guidelines

1 Determine visual merchandising guideline requirements.

• 1.1Communicate with relevant personnel to identify organisational priorities and standards for visual merchandising.
• 1.2Clarify specifications and constraints impacting visual merchandising guideline development with relevant personnel.
• 1.3Analyse internal and external operating environment including competitor activity, to identify opportunities and risks to inform visual merchandising guideline development.
• 1.4Research local and global visual merchandising trends and draw inspiration to inform visual merchandising guideline development.
• 1.5Identify challenges impacting the consistent implementation of visual merchandising standards across multiple locations and develop strategies to overcome challenges.
• 1.6Challenge assumptions and traditional ways of thinking to promote innovative thinking and creativity in developing visual merchandising guidelines.

2 Develop visual merchandising guidelines.

• 2.1Develop visual merchandising guidelines using digital technologies and tools.
• 2.2Develop visual merchandising guidelines to provide clear and accurate detail of visual merchandising standards and expectations.
• 2.3Provide visual and written representations of visual merchandising standards to aid understanding.
• 2.4Detail the purpose and application of visual merchandising guidelines and how they are to be implemented.
• 2.5Consider scaling and resourcing of individual stores and provide required supporting information.
• 2.6Ensure visual merchandising guidelines links to organisational strategic objectives and priorities.
• 2.7Develop communication tools for the distribution of visual merchandising guidelines.
• 2.8Establish evaluation criteria to measure the implementation of visual merchandising standards.
• 2.9Seek input of others and test usability of visual merchandising guidelines.
• 2.10Finalise visual merchandising guidelines and seek approval.

3 Implement visual merchandising guidelines.

• 3.1Communicate visual merchandising guidelines to relevant personnel and ensure understanding of standards and visual merchandising objectives.
• 3.2Provide support and coaching to team members throughout the implementation process.
• 3.3Monitor the standards of implementation against evaluation criteria and take action as required.

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