How does Increff help brands avoid overbuying?

Increff anchors buy quantities in demand signals rather than aspirational targets, factors prior-season carryover inventory into the OTB, and highlights which styles and sizes carry the most excess risk. By buying closer to true demand, brands structurally generate less overstock before a single unit enters the warehouse.

Retail Buying & Merchandise Planning Software

Smart Buying for demand-led assortments

Range Architecture & Option Planning

Buy Plan/Line Selection

Drop Planning for assortment freshness

Open-to-Buy budget management

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Case Studies

How Increff Helped Celio Achieve 5% Higher Full-Price Sell-Through Than Planned

One of the leading French menswear brands Celio has relied on Increff Merchandising Software to manage complexity and enable accurate merchandise planning, replenishment, and inter-store transfer. Our algorithmic-driven software helped the brand to create a connected, consistent, consumer-centric retail network thus effectively managing localization, seasonality, fashion trends, and other demand complexities and achieving: ~500 bps Higher quality sell-through than targeted 600+ POS fresh allocation is done with in-depth planning Automated replenishment runs scheduled in seamless integrations for 600+ POS

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How Increff's Allocation and Replenishment Helped Woodland Grow Footwear Sales on 18% Lower Inventory

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The Perfect Match with Increff: How Increff Helped a Jewellery Brand Boost Revenue by 34.5% with Smarter Inventory Management

A rapidly expanding fine jewelry brand, specializing in silver, gold, and lab-grown diamonds, it swiftly grew to over 100 physical stores, alongside their digital presence. This explosive growth, including international expansion, created complex merchandising challenges. As they ventured into gold and lab-grown diamonds, optimizing inventory became critical. To streamline operations and support further growth, they partnered with Increff for advanced merchandising solution.

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Buy Right, Sell More at Full Price

Automated Store–Style Level Buy Plans
True Depletion
Freshness & Carryover

Automated Store–Style Level Buy Plans

Built Around Real Constraints: Incorporates the operational rules like buy duration and drop cadence, MOQ and lead time, full-price vs. EOSS split, and minimum category display requirements.
Automated Buy Plans: Generates a store-style level buy across drops, so every location gets the right styles at the right depth.
Integrated Buying Cycle: Links Range Planning → Buy Plan / Line Selection → Final Buy, with inventory projections and a drop plan connecting every stage.

True Depletion

Forward-Looking ROS: Predicts opening inventory using adjusted historical sell-through rates.
Purpose-Built for OTB: Pinpoints the opening inventory available at the start of the OTB period, so every buy starts from reality instead of assumptions.
Cluster-Level ROS Prediction: Forecasts the daily rate of sale at a cluster level using historical performance and seasonality.
Intelligent ROS Adjustments: Refines the predicted ROS by accounting for expected inwards, % Pivotal Size Availability (PSA), and changes in AOP.

Freshness & Carryover

Drop Plan Strategy: Recommends phased style launches to keep assortments fresh across the season.
Carryover Inventory Integration: Pulls prior-season stock into the OTB to avoid overbuying and sweat existing investment harder.
Financial Alignment: Connects bottom-up demand signals with top-down merchandise and financial plans.
Flexible OTB Execution: Runs weekly, monthly, or quarterly, with override options at store, category, or subcategory level.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Open-to-Buy (OTB) planning?

Open-to-Buy (OTB) planning is the process of deciding how much inventory to buy, at what value, and when, so purchases stay aligned with sales targets and financial plans. It calculates the budget available for new purchases as the gap between planned sales, planned stock, and existing inventory — helping brands buy enough to meet demand without overbuying.

What is an ideal buy plan?

An ideal buy plan recommends how many styles (width) and how many units (depth) to buy for each store and cluster, based on revenue targets, current inventory and depletion, rate of sale, buy duration and drops, MOQ, and lead time. It converts a smart assortment plan and revenue targets into an actionable, storelevel buy.

What is a drop plan and why does it matter?

A drop plan phases style launches across the season instead of buying everything upfront, so assortments stay fresh and newness is introduced at the right time. It splits buy quantities across drops based on category and segment ratios, keeping the range relevant and reducing the risk of early markdowns.

How does Increff's Buying connect to financial planning?

Increff connects bottom-up demand signals with top-down, business-level merchandise and financial plans, so buy decisions stay aligned with revenue and margin goals. OTB can run weekly, monthly, or quarterly with override options at store, category, or subcategory levels.

Buying

Smart Buying for demand-led assortments

Discover Our Buying Solution in Action

Buy Right, Sell More at Full Price

Automated Store–Style Level Buy Plans

True Depletion

Freshness & Carryover

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Open-to-Buy (OTB) planning?

What is an ideal buy plan?

What is a drop plan and why does it matter?

How does Increff's Buying connect to financial planning?

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