Celerant Command Retail: Open to Buy / Merchandise Planning Software

Celerant Technology offers three paths to managing your Open-to-Buy and Merchandise Planning needs, direct, one-way data or extracts to two popular products within the planning industry; the Buyer’s Tool Box from Ant USA and the RMSA planning service. Celerant also offers an internal, fully integrated tool, which provides a solution to the complex, dynamic process that is retail merchandise planning and its execution.

Celerant’s integrated toolset is seamlessly built into Celerant Command Retail and is highly scalable and flexible. Designed to free the retailer from managing Excel spreadsheets, this module offers a compelling option to the multi-tasking planner and buyer.

Planning

Using the strength of Command Retail’s vast and flexible storehouse of information, the integrated planning tool empowers retailers to analyze their business and build a plan at a level that can help shape new profitability and can direct efficient processes.

Plan in Retail Dollars, Cost or Units
Plan at Multiple Levels
Create and Plan in customized seasons

Open-to-Buy

The fully integrated Open-to-Buy module’s real power is its ability to deliver real-time information to the correct users,

within an efficient workflow, all while adding a significant layer of control. With this tool, your buyers will know when, what and how much to buy with more confidence and with less time spent.

All Actuals update automatically
Controls built into Purchase Orders
Multiple security layer options

Reporting and Analytics

As with most worthwhile ventures, retail planning requires regular attention and may require timely intervention to maximize your results. Celerant Command Retail’s analytic features are powerful, timely and, most importantly, allow you, the retailer, the flexibility to experiment with and to adapt to a changing landscape, as it unfolds.