Open-to-Buy & Inventory Management

See exactly how much to buy to hit your sales and margin plan, and how much open-to-buy you have left in real time. Tie every receipt and purchase order back to the plan. Stop overbuying, avoid stockouts, and free up cash for the products that are actually selling.

A Modern Approach to OTB & Inventory Management

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Smarter buying decisions

See exactly what to order to hit plan, and compare planned receipts to what's on order. Eliminate the guesswork: buy into winners and pull back on the rest before the money's committed.

Complete visibility across metrics

Track open-to-buy by units, cost, margin, and retail in one place, so finance and buying work from the same numbers. See the margin impact before you place the order.

Continuous inventory alignment

Recalculate open-to-buy automatically as sales and receipts land, so your buy plan reflects real demand all season. Course-correct early instead of discovering the overstock at markdown time.

Key Features for Open-to-Buy & Inventory Management

Configurable metrics

View and manage OTB across AUC, AUR, margin, cost, retail, and units, with metrics configured to how your team plans.

Built-in calculations

OTB, projected receipts, and end-of-period inventory calculate automatically, so buyers see what's left to spend without maintaining a single formula.

Top down, bottom up actionable OTBs

Reconcile top-down financial targets with bottom-up buy plans, so every open-to-buy number is one buyers can act on and finance can trust.

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Boll & Branch, a leader in sustainable luxury bedding, has transformed its inventory planning and forecasting with a more structured, data-driven approach with Toolio

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Mike Carozza

SVP of Product Strategy

"One of the biggest changes [Using Toolio] has been the ability to see cost impacts immediately. Before, we'd spend hours manually calculating margin shifts in meetings. Now, we can make those decisions instantly."

30%

reduction in inventory

17%

inventory turn improvement

6 hour

reduction in quarterly cost/margin analysis

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AKA Brands, a prominent player in the fashion industry known for its portfolio of successful digital native brands, has revolutionized its inventory management strategy and achieved remarkable results since implementing Toolio's integrated inventory management solution.

Stacey Shriefer

Vice President Inventory Planning

“Toolio was instrumental in showing our merchants that they could have 50-75% less SKU count and do the same amount of sales. We expect $5M in cost savings and efficiency gains.”

50-75%

SKU count reduction

$5M

expected cost savings and efficiency gains

5-10

weeks of stock reduction

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Weezie Towels, celebrated for its artisanal approach to crafting luxurious, personalized towels, has elevated its inventory management to new heights with Toolio.

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Holly Leach

Vice President of Merchandising & Business Development

"After seeing the demo for Toolio, I immediately recognized the bandwidth this system generates. It is extremely intuitive and solves for many of the manual analyses our team was running on a regular basis."

40%

efficiency gains

4%

inventory cost reduction

8x

Return on Investment

FAQs for OTB & Inventory Management

We manage open-to-buy in a spreadsheet already. Why do we need software?

Spreadsheet OTB breaks the moment receipts slip or a forecast changes: someone re-keys the sheet, versions diverge, and the "open" number is stale by the time you act on it. Toolio recalculates OTB automatically against live sales and on-order data, so what's left to spend is always current and every buyer is working from the same figure.

Will Toolio take buying decisions away from our merchants?

No. Toolio shows what's needed to hit the plan and how much open-to-buy is left; your buyers decide how to spend it. It removes the manual math and stale spreadsheets, not the merchant's judgment, so the team spends its time on decisions instead of reconciliation.

How is this different from the inventory module in our ERP?

ERP tells you what you own and what you've received; it's not built to plan forward-looking open-to-buy against a sales and margin plan. Toolio sits on top of your ERP, turns those actuals into a live OTB position by units, cost, margin, and retail, and shows what to buy next — without replacing the system of record.

We overbuy and get stuck with markdowns every season. Can OTB software fix that?

That's the core problem OTB in Toolio is built to prevent. Because every buy is tied to the plan and recalculated as demand shifts, you can see overbuy risk before the PO is placed, hold back open-to-buy dollars for proven winners, and chase into demand instead of marking down what didn't sell.

Our on-order and receipt data lives in several systems. Can OTB stay accurate?

Yes. Toolio integrates with your ERP, POS, and e-commerce systems via API, SFTP, or scheduled exports, with incremental updates on high-volume tables like sales and inventory, so your open-to-buy position reflects the latest receipts and on-order — not last week's snapshot.

Is Toolio built for enterprise-scale planning?

Absolutely. Toolio supports large data volumes, complex hierarchies, and multi-level planning, making it ideal for enterprise merchandise financial planning and analysis.

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