Open-to-Buy Overview
Use your retail software to streamline the merchandise planning process with built-in screens, workflows, and reports.- Generate detailed receiving plans at every level, across the chain or down to location.
- Directly plan, balance and integrate markdowns, margins, markups, pricing, GMROI, forward cover weeks of supply & turn.
Celerant Technology offers three paths for managing your open to buy and merchandise planning needs. The Celerant Command Retail management system provides an internal, fully integrated open to buy tool, providing a solution to the complex, dynamic process of merchandise planning and execution. The Command Retail system also allows for seamless integration with ANT USA's best selling merchandise and assortment planning system, buyer's toolbox, as well as the RMSA planning service.
With integrated open-to-buy, easily plan business across the chain, or down to location with interactive "what-if" scenarios. Automatically balance all the key dimensions including merchandise hierarchy, location, units vs.value, receipts, margin, turn, and cost vs. retail.
Integrate top-level merchandise plans with style level assortment plans down to location.
Create, plan, and track location groups interactively:
- Comp stores vs. non-comp stores
- Group or cluster stores interactively
- Use built-in store attributes
Create and save your favorite report groups. Review your plans from every angle:
- This year to last year
- Next year to this year
- Actual to plan
- Unlimited plan versions and copies
- Built-in exception reporting
- Bottom up, top down, middle out
Produce easy-to-read, powerful reports:
- Automated report generation
- Point-click, no programming required
- A selection of standard reports at every level
- Export reports to Excel, web, ASCII and more
- Open Interface for custom reports (ODBC)
- Ready-to-use exception reporting
- Flexible season reporting