Quickly plan for up to 7 departments 

Just a few entries. IMMEDIATE results!

Adjusts for On-Order Merchandise

See built-in TIPS. Speed your entries!

Easily COMPARE departments

On-Order Tallied for all departments entered

Choose from 53 segments to compare

Finished with tweaks? Print and go!

Easy for retailers

Just a few quick entries

IMMEDIATELY! See monthly buying plan.

Perfect for "What if...?"

Even compare to benchmarks. All built-in.

Available with SPECIAL Access

Perfect for planning and controlling inventory buys!

Now, any retailer, anywhere, can know your Open-to-Buy in minutes, on demand. On your own. Automagically!

Make sophisticated comparisons of buying choices – before you place any orders!

See the cause-effect results immediately, each time you change an input.

That monthly ending inventory number doesn't look quite right? 

Okay, change turns. (Easy with the dropdown menu.) See how the plan changed?

Having second thoughts about reaching those sales numbers in some months? 

No problem; change expected sales in whatever months you want. It adjusts your Open-to-Buy automagically!

Gross Margins can be changed each month as well. 

Need to open up some Open-to-Buy dollars? Which months do you want some special promotions? Just enter those tweaks, and check out the adjusted plan.

Plus, it also projects GMROI. That's Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment – considered by The ROI to be the #1 measure of inventory productivity.  

The MULTI-DEPARTMENT OTB Calculator with GMROI does this for each of the individual plans you enter, plus it generates some additional dashboards for you to quickly compare. And of course, it calculates the GMROI for the grand totals of all of your entries.

Nothing to download or install. It just works!  

Online access, 24/7, whenever you need it. 

Easy and fast for busy retailers.

No better or faster way for retailers to guide and monitor their inventory levels!

You don't need your bookkeeper (or your IT guy.) Just a few minutes, and your good judgment!

Entries go in fast. The Open-to-Buy Calculators do all the number-crunching "automagically". 

IMMEDIATELY you will see: 

• Monthly Open-to-Buys, based on your planned sales, margins and turns;

• Plus resulting Ending Inventories for each month;

• Plus projected GMROI for that plan.

• Even compare your plan to Benchmarks for any of 53 retail segments.

All built in!

Getting started is easy!

Just 3 quick inputs, using the numbers you already know:

1. Planned Sales and Gross Margin % by month
2. Beginning Inventory @Cost 
3. Targeted Inventory Turns (choose from the drop-down menu)

Immediately! See your monthly buying plan! Know your Open-to-Buy for each month*. And, see your targeted Ending Inventory levels for each month, the most important number for owners to monitor.

* the maximum amount of inventory to bring in that month to meet your goals for sales, margins and turns.

Most of “the numbers” you might want to save – that is, your monthly Buying Plans – are generated by the Open-to-Buy Calculator, based on the few entries you input (planned sales and margins, etc.)

The best way to "save" those, once you have developed a plan you like, is to just print out a hard copy for reference. Do that by using the “PRINT ALL“ button.

In fact, depending on your computer and/or browser, you may be able to simply email a pdf copy of the plan.

These online Open-to-Buy calculators work "in the browser."

That is, your entries will be retained in the browser you use for input (e.g., Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge), subject to your settings for clearing its history. 

No more worries if you are interrupted while working with it. When you resume, use the same browser and device, and your plans will be there! (Even if it is a few days later, so long as you have not cleared the history in that browser.)