Planning / Open-to-Buy

Far surpassing common expectations, our Open-to-Buy employs dynamic controls that facilitate the process by incorporating flexible and adaptable views with superb functionality that puts you in charge.

With real-time data and predictive insights, our Open-to-Buy software helps you make smarter inventory decisions—balancing stock levels, maximizing sales opportunities, and minimizing markdowns. Whether you're planning by department, class, or season, the system gives you full visibility and control to align inventory with demand and drive profitability.

Designed to be adaptive to various users, business requirements and analytical viewpoints, the Open-to-Buy is completely versatile and lets the user decide what data to view and how it should be displayed.

ChainDrive Open-to-Buy retail software solution allows you to pre-select the label sets you wish to view, change their order as required, add new labels or remove unwanted ones, all with a click of your mouse. In other words, view your data the way you need to see it.

ChainDrive Open-to-Buy pos system empowers the user with beneficial functionality such as the ability to lock and unlock a single data cell or an entire sub-level plan. This OTB feature ensures that in planning mode, areas you want frozen and thus not affected by additional or ongoing adjustment will be maintained.

With the flexibility to validate and lock data at any stage of the planning process, ChainDrive allows users to confidently execute their retail strategy. This control minimizes errors, prevents unwanted changes, and ensures that your plans remain consistent and accurate as you move through each phase of your operations.

The system lets you plan at the season level, ensuring that your results are pertinent and meaningful and reflect a true Open-to-Buy for seasonal merchandise. This seasonal approach allows retailers to align their buying strategy with market trends, consumer demand, and inventory cycles, ensuring optimal stock levels throughout each season.

The Open-to-Buy consolidates all seasonal plans into a corporate view, ensuring alignment with your overall retail objectives, preventing overstocking or understocking, and providing a clear strategy across seasons. Multi-seasonal planning helps retailers forecast demand more accurately, optimize budgets, and quickly adapt to market shifts or changes in consumer preferences.

Using historical data from the central database ChainDrive Open-to-Buy offers simple, easy to view comparatives at all levels. This feature enhances your ability to leverage actualized historical statistics and use them as benchmarks against any future plans.

“Numbers are important, but a picture is worth a thousand words.” This is why the Open-to-Buy enables you to instantly graph your data, providing a powerful visual comparison of similar data or simply the data you select. Whether selecting this year versus last year, sales versus markdowns, purchases versus gross margin, or any other multiple combination, the retail pos system provides it to you instantaneously. This is the reason today’s retailers have chosen Chaindrive ERP and omnichannel retail software.