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Open To Buy Tools and Knowhow

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We understand Retail Planning and OTB


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• In this business since 1992

• Privately owned, long term outlook, stable

• Many successful implementations big and small

• Earned our good reputation one retailer at a time

• Constantly improving our software to YOUR benefit

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Benefits of better Open To Buy:


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• Achieve higher margins

• Improve buying discipline

• Optimize timing of vendor receipts

• Lower excess inventory

• Increase sales on fresh merchandise

• Reduce markdowns


An effective path to better Open To Buy

• Plan your Sales

• Plan your target Receipts or Inventory levels

• Buy within the resulting OTB budgets

• Monitor plans vs actual results

• Repeat regularly in-season


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All the core features, none of the clutter

• Plan Weekly or Monthly or Seasonally

• Plan at Retail, Cost, Units

• Plan with history or without

• Plan categories top-down, bottom-up, or middle out

• Plan by location or by Company total

• Integration to/from Excel

• Integration options with your merchandising system


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Easy on the wallet, fast ROI

• Low startup costs

• Affordable pay-as-you-go plans

• Easy to implement and use

• Secure, private data in the Microsoft Azure cloud

• Use in the office or on the road


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Industry-standard formulas built in

• Penetration/Share %

• Sales Trend %

• Ave Stock

• Gross Margin % and $

• OnOrder IMU%

• Turn

• GMROI

• Forward Cover Weeks of Supply

• Stock to Sales

• Sellthrough

• OPEN TO BUY


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You can’t outgrow it

• No limit on number of locations

• No limit on number of users

• No limit on number of merchandise categories

• Practically no limit on upgrade options and functions


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Easy implementation

• Set up your account with us

• Import your product hierarchy

• Set up your locations

• Import your own history

• Start planning!


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Knowledgeable, friendly support

• Support plans available

• Friendly, qualified staff

• 95%+ of all support needs resolved on first call or email

• Maintenance Agreement includes new software version upgrades


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Need more power? Plenty of upgrade options…

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• Advanced Merchandise Planning

• Basic Allocation and Replenishment

• Assortment Planning

• Wholesale and Multichannel Planning

• Sales Forecasting

• Margin and Price Point Optimization

• Location Planning

• Channel Planning

• Product and Location Clustering


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