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Open To Buy
• Manual weekly / monthly open to buy processes result in time wasted in data actualization & formatting vs. decision making
• Automated re-forecasting to respond to trends
• Accurate inventory projection allows quick decisions around PO movements and pricing adjustments.
Scenario Playing
• Difficult and time consuming to create scenarios on the fly (takes tens of hours to prepare)
• Scenario data is not actualized daily and only represents a snapshot view
1-click scenario creation to try out different assumptions
• Ability to align the organization across different what-if scenarios with easy comparison
Pre-Season Planning
• Manual and inaccurate initial plan creation
• Disconnected Store Plans and Merchandise Plans with no simple reconciliation
• Quick and accurate initial plan creation via seeding leveraging cleansed demand data
•Multiple reconciled planning approaches, i.e. store planning & merch planning allow more accurate buys
Initial Plan Creation
• Cannot easily share reports and collaborate for quick decision making
• Hard to put plans / actuals in a single report at various levels in the organization
• Hard to see trends and anomalies
• Single source of truth for all reports
• Plans vs. Actuals are in a single place
• Exceptions are highlighted for quick decision making
Overall Productivity
• Crashes with large datasets
• Limited versioning
• Collaboration troubles results in time wasted
• Siloed data is everywhere (tens or hundreds of Excel files for different teams)
• Time spent on data pulling / formatting (i.e. being an Excel Jockey) vs. strategic decision making
• Modern, cloud-based SaaS
• Version control and automated snapshots
• Easy collaboration
• Single source of truth (integrates w/ your Tech Stack)
Automated actualizations
• Modern tooling for a modern workforce
Improved Product Selection
More appealing product selection through trend analysis, attribute success, etc
Improved Initial Allocation
Put more product in the right place first time using clustering.
Automated Actualization
Toolio automates the data actualization process by pulling data from relevant sources.
Weekly KPI Review
Automated report creation, scheduling deliveries to key-stakeholders and highlighting exceptions
Monthly Re-Forecasting
Easy reforecasting through purpose-built functions and workflows to automate re-projecting the business. Seamless scenario playing to try out what-if scenarios.
Initial Plan Creation
Easy and accurate annual plan creation using historical information and easy top-down adjustments using locking & spreading.
