Open-to-Buy Software for Superior Planning

One of the trademark features of success for retail environments is the ability to maximize sales through efficient planning. Being aware of your products, their stock, placement, and pricing, and having them arranged and prepared in such a way that you get the most out of every day your items are on the shelves is integral to your profit. Instead of struggling by switching through spreadsheets and doing numerous store walk-arounds and price analysis, consider investing in a software system that has tools that will help you plan for optimal performance. ChainDrive’s Open-to-Buy software includes the flexible tools and user-definable views you need to plan at every level.

With dynamic controls and customizable views and actions, the user can plan in units or in dollars or other measurements of cost down to sub-classes such as departments or other types of product organization, This means that instead of trying to apply a general idea to the entire range of merchandise you’re working with, you can be precise and optimize sales based on planning you’ve done for smaller segments of your store.

Here are some other notes on the intuitive Planning software and how it helps you manage your store:

• It leverages historical contribution patterns and data to determine the best cost distribution
• Provides meaningful and easy to understand comparative analysis of store data such as sales and inventory using charts and drill-downs
• Works naturally with the Point of Sale component and is fully integrated into the software system’s centralized database
• Gives you accurate stock level forecasting based on stock to sales ratios you provide the system

Learn more about Open-to-Buy software and see how the right tools can make your planning easier and more profitable.