--- title: "Basic Allocation & Replenishment — Buyer's Toolbox" url: https://antusa.com/allocation-replenishment description: "Buyer's Toolbox — merchandise planning, OTB, and forecasting software for retail teams. 30+ years of retail planning expertise from ANT USA." source: antusa.com --- Basic Allocation & Replenishment # Your stores sell differently. They need to be stocked differently. Doing **Basic Allocation & Replenishment** in spreadsheets? You are working too hard. [See How It Works ↓](#how-it-works) [Talk with a Retail Expert →](https://antusa.com/pricing#book-a-call) Helping retailers in 20+ countries for over 30 years. Explore Basic Allocation & Replenishment: Explore Basic Allocation & Replenishment: [How It Works](#how-it-works) [Allocation](#allocation) [Replenishment](#replenishment) [Scale](#scale) [Integrations](#integrations) How It Works ## Five steps from plan to shipment. [Explore all capabilities ↓](#allocation) Select Your Products Select Your Locations Forecast Demand Allocate Run Batch ![Select Your Products](https://antusa.com/images/product-ui/bar-products.png) ### Select Your Products Work at whatever level the decision requires, from a full department down to a single SKU, group by attributes and more. ![Select Your Locations](https://antusa.com/images/product-ui/bar-locations.png) ### Select Your Locations Pick the stores, channels, countries, or DCs you’re allocating to. Location attributes (channel, area, division, format) let you target precisely without building custom lists every time. ![Forecast Demand](https://antusa.com/images/product-ui/bar-forecast.png) ### Forecast Demand Choose the forecasting method that fits the product: history average, history with seasonality, Holt-Winters, LPC, or your existing plan. The system calculates Open to Ship at item level across every selected location. ![Allocate](https://antusa.com/images/product-ui/bar-allocate.png) ### Allocate Set your stock method — weeks of supply, stock-to-sales, sellthrough, goal stock, or min/max — and review store-level quantities against current stock, weekly sales, and cumulative OTS before you commit. Adjust where you need to. Approve what looks right. ![Run Batch](https://antusa.com/images/product-ui/bar-batch.png) ### Run Batch Process hundreds of categories across dozens of stores in a single pass. One click allocates the full run — no item-by-item decisions, no per-store spreadsheets. Get It Right ## Every store gets what it can actually sell. Not a chain-wide or a store group average. Store-Level Allocation ### Every store gets allocated to its own demand. Multiple stock methods — weeks of supply, stock-to-sales, sellthrough, goal stock, min/max — so the allocation model matches the inventory strategy. A replenishment-heavy basics business runs one way. A seasonal fashion business should use dynamic KPIs. The solution adapts to both without switching tools or rebuilding logic. ![Store-level allocation](https://antusa.com/images/illustrations/bar-store-allocation.svg) Size & Attribute Distribution ### The right sizes in the right doors. The size-color-width matrix distributes inventory by the dimensions that actually drive sell-through — not a flat size curve applied chain-wide. Each store gets a distribution profile based on its own selling pattern, so a store that skews large doesn’t receive the same size split as one that skews small. Fewer transfers. Fewer markdowns. Less dead inventory. ![Size distribution matrix](https://antusa.com/images/illustrations/bar-size-distribution.svg) ![DC-to-store replenishment](https://antusa.com/images/illustrations/bar-replenishment.svg) ### Automated replenishment that keeps every store in stock. Automated DC-to-store replenishment monitors stock positions and generates replenishment quantities against configurable service levels. When a store sells through, the system calculates the refill. Your team reviews exceptions instead of building replenishment orders by hand. DC-to-store Open To ShipDynamic & static service levelsConfigurable stock targetsException-based reviewVendor-to-DC Open To Ship Make It Scale ## One process that works for 30 stores, or 300. ### Demand forecasting built into the replenishment workflow. Five forecasting algorithms feed directly into the OTS calculation — historical average, seasonality, Holt-Winters, Linear Predictive Coding, or your existing plan from Toolbox Advanced Planning. The forecast and the allocation live in the same workflow. ![Demand forecasting](https://antusa.com/images/illustrations/bar-forecasting.svg) ### Scale the whole footprint in one run. Batch jobs process your full product-location matrix at once. Adding ten stores doesn’t require much work — it just means ten more rows in the batch. ![Batch processing](https://antusa.com/images/illustrations/bar-batch-processing.svg) > “As a retailer with over 250 locations, Toolbox AP helps us stay on top of our inventory plans at a very detailed level so that we can maximize our margins by keeping the right quantities of product in the right classifications.” Jake E. CEO, Factory Connection Integrations ## Nothing to export. Nothing to paste. Your Demand Forecast flows in from [Buyer’s Toolbox Advanced Planning](https://antusa.com/advanced-planning). Open To Ship results flow back to operations. And your ERP keeps stock positions, sales history, and store structures current — no manual data loads. ![Microsoft Dynamics 365](https://antusa.com/images/logos/dynamics-365.svg)![Oracle NetSuite](https://antusa.com/images/logos/netsuite.svg)![Jesta I.S.](https://antusa.com/images/logos/jesta.svg)![Horizon](https://antusa.com/images/logos/horizon.svg)![Mi9 Retail](https://antusa.com/images/logos/mi9.png)![KWI](https://antusa.com/images/logos/kwi.svg)![Celerant](https://antusa.com/images/logos/celerant.svg)![Retail Pro](https://antusa.com/images/logos/retail-pro.svg) [View all integrations →](https://antusa.com/integrations) The Buyer's Toolbox Solution Suite Expand when you're ready. **Basic Allocation & Replenishment** works alongside [Advanced Planning](https://antusa.com/advanced-planning). The rest of the suite extends capability as your planning operation matures. [Learn more about our approach →](https://antusa.com/about/approach) [Explore ADVANCED PLANNING → Merchandise planning, OTB, and sales forecasting](https://antusa.com/advanced-planning) [Explore BASIC ALLOCATION & REPLENISHMENT → Right product, right store, right time](https://antusa.com/allocation-replenishment) [Explore DATA SCIENCE → Predictive analytics & optimization](https://antusa.com/data-science) [Explore EXCEPTION INTELLIGENCE → AI-powered proactive alerts](https://antusa.com/exception-intelligence) ## See your replenishment running on your data. - ✓ Your product hierarchy and store structure in Buyer’s Toolbox - ✓ A working replenishment environment built with your data - ✓ No sales pitch — just your numbers - ✓ Built before you spend a dollar [Talk with a Retail Expert →](https://antusa.com/pricing#book-a-call) ![Dmitry Goykhman](https://antusa.com/images/ceo-dmitry-goykhman.png)![Daniel Goykhman](https://antusa.com/images/cto-daniel-goykhman.jpg)![Jeff Dillon](https://antusa.com/images/director-operations-jeff-dillon.png)![Murat Dzgoev](https://antusa.com/images/diretor-customer-success-murat-dzgoev.jpg) Our retail experts are ready.