Get smart inventory purchasing recommendations based on reliable demand forecasts for all your products, including seasonal, non-seasonal, fast-selling, slow-moving, retail and wholesale products. Brightpearl’s Inventory Planner factors in supply lead times, seasonality, promotions, market shifts, your most recent sales trends and your periodic sales comparisons for predictable accuracy – even in unpredictable times.

As well as giving you reliable buying recommendations, Brightpearl also automates your purchase orders. Place POs directly from your buying recommendations in a couple of clicks. Set automation rules based on your own workflows to make your whole purchase order management hands-free.

Cash is king – now more than ever. But do you know how much of your cash is tied up in any inventory that is not selling, whether it’s your ‘safety stock’ or overstock? There can be millions of dollars at stake! Brightpearl Inventory Planner flags items that aren’t selling fast enough compared to your customer demand, as well as the associated overstock costs, so you can easily see which items to liquidate first and keep your cash flow healthy.

Hold inventory in more than one location? No problem. Brightpearl’s Inventory Planner will provide you with accurate forecasting across all your locations, including your own warehouse, 3PL, brick and mortar stores and Amazon FBA. Plus, it will optimize inventory levels across all your locations by recommending what products would benefit from being moved from one inventory location to another.

Brightpearl Inventory Planner unlocks deeper insight of the inventory impact on your cash flow, thanks to its sales forecasting and inventory planning capability. For instance, you’ll easily know how much revenue you’ll miss out if you delay your replenishment, or the costs associated with your slow-moving products if you don’t liquidate them immediately.

When you have a large volume of product variants, it’s tricky to determine how much is needed to avoid overstock of some variants and stockouts of others. This is where Brightpearl’s Inventory Planner does all the hard work for you. It forecasts sales and provides purchasing recommendations even down to variant level, saving you hours on tedious, error-prone calculations.

Knowing how much to buy of a new product line can be challenging. With Brightpearl Inventory Planner, you can use similar product categories as a reference to predict sales forecasting and get replenishment recommendations for your new product. Plus, you can narrow it down to variant level such as size, color or pattern, so you’ll know in detail the right assortment and quantity to meet future demand.

Our Open-to-Buy feature allows you to easily plan your purchasing budgets by product category, brand and vendor to meet your sales goals. Still new to OTB? Simply use last year’s sales or forecasted sales to plan budgets for the upcoming months. Need more advanced usage? No problem, OTB lets you analyze actual revenue LLY (Last Last Year), plan purchasing budgets based on expected margins and even forecast the number of units you need to order based on price and revenue goals.