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Unlock the Power of Open-to-Buy for Smarter Year-End Inventory Decisions
Join ANT USA and Celerant for an insightful session on the essential role of Open-to-Buy (OTB) in inventory management. As we approach the end of the year, discover how a disciplined OTB process can help you strategically plan and control your inventory to meet your business goals.
Retail Tech Show
2-3 April 2025, ExCeL London
See you at Booth P38!
Successful Stand
at UK Retail Tech Show
For past shows
Dmitry recently manned the booth at the Retail Tech Show. His goal to rekindle and build new relationships was a success. We have registered for the 2025 event!
Lost Sales
Keep your eyes out for our release of Lost Sales Analysis. Our engineers have been working on algorithms, business logic, and useful presentation to add this powerful element to your planning process.
NRF 2025
January 11: Opening Party
January 12–14: Conference & Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center | NYC
See you at Booth 1103!
For past shows
Booth #600 was hopping! For many years we have had a booth at NRF. We will see you there in 2025 as well!
Buyers Toolbox AP is implemented at Shoe Palace
I am happy to share more exciting news – over the last few weeks we were able to implement a full-blown Buyers Toolbox AP at Shoe Palace, one of the most dynamic multi-branded footwear and apparel retailers today.
Years ago, we recognized that most potential merchandise planning implementations were held back by massive budgetary and infrastructure requirements. We have been working on this problem of delivering full-featured, scalable, industry leading MFP solutions at an affordable price point ever since. That’s why we developed our Database As A Service option – to enable every merchant make better decisions in planning and Open To Buy without breaking the budget.
The Shoe Palace implementation (among others) validates this approach. From traditional top-down Merchandise Financial Planning to Store/Style data for key item and assortment planning – all this without the burden of excessive integration or capital expenditure.
Thank you to the Shoe Palace team for being great partners on this journey. And a special thanks to our team who continue to achieve the highest levels of customer service and fastest ROI for our clients.
Runnings Farm and Ranch implements Buyers Toolbox AP for Merchandise Planning
I am happy to announce that we have implemented Buyers Toolbox AP for Merchandise Planning and Open To Buy at Runnings Farm and Fleet, to support ongoing growth in business volume and store counts.
Runnings has been growing since its’ founding in 1947, and today boasts several dozen large format locations in 8 states including Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Montana, New York, New Hampshire and Connecticut.
As a solid, growing family-owned retailer, Runnings is oriented towards profitability, practical inventory improvements and improving Open To Buy Management across an incredibly diverse range of seasonal, replenishment-driven, basic and fashion merchandise.
Runnings selected ANT USA as a partner for our proven track record, long-term outlook and stability, as well as deep experience in Merchandise Planning. Critical to this relationship is ANT USA’s ability to transfer planning knowhow and help coach the buying staff in core Merchandise Planning methods and techniques.
This planning system implementation is being carried out in collaboration with Horizon Retail Solutions – a leading supplier of Retail ERP to Farm, Home and Ranch retailers. In the course of our partnership, Horizon has built a reusable, scalable and standardized data interface to help expedite this and future joint system implementations.
Our flagship product – Buyers Toolbox AP fit the bill with best-in-class functionality, ease of use, a rapid implementation methodology and an affordable price point.
On a personal note, I am really enjoying doing the work with such a team of nice, practical, results-oriented merchants.
Celerant and ANT USA Collaborate to Expand Open To Buy Functionality to SMB Retailers
Celerant Technology, a leader in retail software and eCommerce solutions, has announced the expansion of its partnership with ANT USA. The new functionality enables independent SMB retailers to plan sales and manage purchasing budgets. The OTB software is user-friendly and straightforward to navigate. The flexibility of the RetailOptia software reflects the partnership between Celerant and ANT USA, both aiming to provide retail technology solutions designed to facilitate the growth of retail businesses.
New Customer, Alterra Mountain Company
For today’s news, I am happy to announce that we are implementing Buyers Toolbox AP for Merchandise Planning and Open To Buy at Alterra Mountain Company. Alterra is a premier snow and year-round hospitality operation, running such iconic properties as Stratton, Sugarbush, Mammoth Mountain, Tremblant, Palisades Tahoe and a dozen more to boot. If you are into winter mountain sports, you will probably end up skiing (and shopping!) at an Alterra mountain.
Planning a Hospitality retailer is inherently more challenging than planning “the usual” retain chain or ecomm. Not only do you have multiple channels, a highly seasonal product assortment and a ton of vendors to worry about, but every property is unique, requiring detailed location planning married to both centralized and local Open To Buy.
This implementation is being carried out in collaboration with Mi9 Retail, leveraging the Mi9 Merchant architecture, best-in-class BI functionality and a pre-built data interface. Alterra selected ANT USA as a partner for our proven track record, long-term outlook and stability, as well as deep experience in Merchandise Planning for Hospitality Retailers. Our flagship product – Buyers Toolbox AP fit the bill with best-in-class functionality, ease of use, a rapid implementation methodology and an affordable price point. I look forward to enjoying the implementation and continuing my learning in the process.
Welcome Tar St. Martin
I am thrilled to announce that Tar St. Martin has joined the ANT USA family as a Senior Account Executive! With a focus on keeping our team tight, professional and experienced, we aim to deliver the highest quality knowhow, software, service and support to our beloved customers.
In a business filled with empty promises and magic bullet fads, we strive to deliver on our promises, stand behind what we sell, and support our customers with empathy. Tar brings immense knowledge and experience in Enterprise-scale Systems for Retail, Wholesale and Manufacturing verticals. Despite (or perhaps because of) all that experience, Tar is calm, balanced, has a sense of humor, and loves photography – what a magic combination! I am excited to grow this business together and to learn from Tar’s energy, ideas, and expertise.
Let’s give Tar a warm welcome to the ANT USA family!