Tightly vs Inventory Planner

Great at reordering. Tightly plans the whole season.

Inventory Planner is a strong demand-forecasting and replenishment tool for DTC brands. Tightly does that too, then reconciles the bottom-up forecast with the top-down merchandise plan, and adds the assortment, size and markdown depth a growing retailer needs.

Capability
Tightly
Inventory Planner
Demand forecasting
Proprietary ML at SKU, size and channel
Sales-velocity and seasonality forecasting
Replenishment
Agents propose reorders under your policy
Automated reorder recommendations
Open-to-buy
OTB reconciled live with the forecast and financial plan
OTB budgets by month and week
Merchandise financial plan
Top-down buy plan reconciled with the bottom-up forecast
Buying-focused, not a full MFP
Assortment & size
Plans at style, colour and size
SKU-level reorder, not assortment or size planning
Markdown
A markdown agent sizes depth by SKU
Not a markdown or pricing tool
AI agents that act
Agents re-forecast, reorder, stage POs and mark down
Recommendations you action yourself
Retail scale
Stores, wholesale and DTC on one plan
Strongest for DTC e-commerce buying
Why teams switch

Keep what works. Lose what breaks.

01

Keep the forecasting and reordering

Tightly does everything Inventory Planner is known for, a real demand forecast and automated replenishment, and does it at size and channel level.

02

Add the connected plan

The bottom-up forecast is reconciled with the top-down merchandise financial plan and open-to-buy, so buying and the plan never disagree.

03

Grow into merchandising depth

Assortment, size curves, markdown and multi-channel scale, the things a brand needs as it grows past pure e-commerce reordering.

It shows up in the numbers.

“We've tried several inventory tools and Tightly is hands down the best. It has changed how we plan to such an extent that we genuinely can't remember how we coped before.”
D
Head of Operations
DTC apparel · mid-market
Stock holdings−18%
12 mo
+14 pts
Forecast accuracy
91%
Hero-size in-stock
$4.9M
Working capital freed

Verified outcomes for a fast-growing DTC apparel brand planning on Tightly.

Across apparel, leaders sell 71% at full price against 57%: a 14-point gap won on size-level availability.

Tightly · State of Retail Inventory 2026

Plan with confidence. One set of numbers, every team, every week.

There's nothing to rip out. Tightly runs on your existing ERP, EDI, e-commerce and POS. Give us 30 minutes and we'll walk you through it.