Tightly vs spreadsheets

Everything a planning sheet does — without the breakage.

Spreadsheets are where most retail planning still lives. They're flexible and familiar — and they quietly break the moment the plan gets big, shared, or has to stay current.

Capability
Tightly
Spreadsheets
One source of truth
One live model everyone plans against
A file per planner, reconciled by hand
Reconciles on change
Change a number, it reconciles everywhere
Manual re-linking; formulas break silently
Live data
Streams from ERP, EDI, e-commerce
Exports and copy-paste, already stale
Scale
Millions of SKU-locations, reconciled live
Slows and corrupts past a few tabs
Forecasting
Proprietary ML at channel and size level
Last year plus a percentage
Automation
Agents re-forecast, reorder and stage POs
Whatever a planner has time to do
Audit trail
Every change logged, can't be altered
No history once a cell is overwritten
Familiar grid
Edit in a live grid, like a sheet
The grid people already know
Why teams switch

Keep what works. Lose what breaks.

01

Keep the flexibility

Tightly is still an editable grid — planners model a change and watch it reconcile, without the file sprawl.

02

Lose the breakage

No broken formulas, no version drift, no stale exports. The plan everyone works from is always current.

03

Add the leverage

A real forecast and agents that do the repetitive reconciliation — things a spreadsheet was never going to do.

It shows up in the numbers.

We scaled into a facility four times the size and expanded into entirely new categories — managing it all with the same lean team. Tightly didn't just automate our stock, it gave us the confidence to grow.
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Mark
eCommerce & Ops Director · Face the Future
Face the FutureBeauty & wellness
Working capital freed$1.4M
12 mo
1.5×
Inventory turns
23%
Stock holdings
4×
Facility, same team

Face the Future hit these numbers after moving into a facility 4× the size, with the same lean team.

Across beauty, the leaders sell 71% at full price against 57% — a 14-point gap, won by acting on demand signals faster.

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 show it on your own categories.