Open-to-Buy

Buy what will sell, before it sells out.

Datcisions projects every SKU to the end of the season, warns you before a stockout and builds the purchase order for you, with your supplier’s lead time counted in.

  • Every SKU forecast
  • Purchase orders built for you
  • Supplier lead times included
Why it matters

Fewer stockouts, less stock left over.

  • Alerts while there’s still time

    Critical, urgent, at risk or low: every product is ranked by its stock, what is on the way and what it needs until the season ends, so you reorder what matters first.

  • Orders sized to sell through

    Each suggested quantity aims to sell 90% of what you put in circulation, after counting stock on hand and units already on order.

  • A range, not a guess

    Every suggestion comes with a minimum and a maximum. The longer a size has sold without gaps, the tighter the range.

Live demo

Watch an order build itself.

The app’s real screens on sample data. Click around, or wait a few seconds and watch it run.

Sample dataThe Open-to-Buy screens, as the app runs them
How it works

From the season so far to the next buy.

  1. 1

    Read the season so far

    Units sold to date, net of returns, divided by the days elapsed give each size its selling rate.

  2. 2

    Correct for the trend

    Your sales on the same dates last year tell Datcisions whether the rest of the season sells faster or slower than what has gone by.

  3. 3

    Size the buy

    Projected demand, your supplier’s lead time and the 90% target turn into a quantity per size, ready to confirm.

Datcisions AI

Every buy, worked out in the open.

Here is the arithmetic behind one suggested buy. The same steps run for every size of every product in your season.

How the AI works
Linen shirtSize M · SS27
Sample data
84 sold in 42 days
2.0 a day
Days left in the season
38 days
Trend vs last year
+15%
Projected to season end87 units
Needed to sell through 90%97 units
  • 31 on hand
  • 20 on order
  • To buy
Suggested buyRange 35 to 58 units
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