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Buyer's Toolbox AP is a professional planning system built for YOU — supporting your need to plan collaboratively, deeper, faster, and at the frequency the business actually demands.
Trusted by planning teams across 20+ countries for over 30 years.
And your team feels it everyday.
You know the answers are hidden deeper in the hierarchy But that "free" spreadsheet can't get you there — formulas break, the large file opens slowly, and your team works at Department/Month because going deeper would take the time they don't have.
The plans are late, and fresh because it's too much work to plan by weeks or sometimes even months Reforecasting takes too long. Version control means hundreds of spreadsheets. By the time the updated plan is ready, the merchants have spent the money.
Your time is drained by manual make-work. Updating with actuals, formatting outputs, V-lookups, fixing broken links, copying and pasting. You are maintaining The Spreadsheet instead of planning.
Department-level plans because deeper granularity is too hard
Seasonal plans with limited mid-season reforecasting
Endless manual updates with data actuals, plenty of copy/paste
Hundreds of disparate spreadsheets to keep track of
Leadership requests require endless hours for special projects
Not enough planners to get the job done for all the merchants
Subgroup and class-level plans with full drill-down
Frequent reforecasting with % to Actuals and Original Plan
Seamless updates for actuals, hierarchy, stores, attributes
A single version of the truth with shared KPIs and formats
Easy, predictable answers to even the most unusual questions
Better, fresher, more detailed plans with the same staff
We went from planning the entire year in a massive Excel file that took weeks to process, to planning a year in a matter of days and reforecasting in just a matter of hours.
David C.
Head of Planning, Large Retailer
Connect your ERP once. Actuals for the KPIs YOU need - Sales, Stock, Open Orders, Receipts, FP/MD and more - key details flowing into Buyer's Toolbox on a regular basis. The data admin work disappears on day one.
Plans and reports at the levels the business needs — easily drill into any dimension - time, merchandise hierarchy, locations, cost/retail/units.
Your plan is always current — and your team focuses on the decisions, not the data.
From two to nine levels of merchandise hierarchy. The depth that was impossible in Excel is at your fingertips by default.
Design the solution to fit your current needs, then reconfigure quickly and cost-effectively to stay relevant and up-to-date as the business evolves.
Actuals and plan version at all levels of detail and all KPI's — always current, always accessible. When leadership asks, you have the answers.
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