Open-to-buy that stays right all season.
Build the receipt plan, calculate OTB, and reconcile it against live sell-through — without rebuilding the spreadsheet every Monday. One connected plan from forecast to purchase order.
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How much cash is trapped in your inventory?
Two numbers you already know. The estimate defaults to a conservative band, so most Tightly customers free more than this.
Estimated at 15% of revenue for other consumer brand — type your real figure to override.
Frees 10% of your inventory — a deliberately cautious floor.
Estimate only, for illustration. The one-time figure frees a conservative share of your inventory value; the annual figure is the all-in cost of holding that stock (we assume 22%/yr, covering cost of capital, storage, insurance and shrink) that you stop paying. The conservative band sits below the Tightly platform average — we’ll model the real numbers on your own categories.
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The spreadsheet OTB, and the live one.
- 01ThenOTB lives in a six-month workbook that's stale the day sales land.OTB recalculated live as sell-through, receipts and on-order move.
- 02ThenReceipts, on-order and markdowns re-keyed by hand from the ERP.Receipts and on-order pulled from your ERP — no re-keying.
- 03ThenOverbuy shows up as markdowns; underbuy shows up as stockouts — after the fact.Over/under-buy flagged before the PO locks, not after the season.
- 04ThenThe plan and the buy agree in the meeting, disagree by Friday.The receipt plan, the forecast and the buy stay on one number.
Every open-to-buy decision, on one surface.
Receipt plan, live.
Planned sales, markdowns and receipts by category and month, updated as actuals land. No more workbook rebuilds.
OTB that reconciles.
Open-to-buy calculated from the plan and the buy together, so spend tracks what will actually sell.
Buy to the demand curve.
Depth sized to SKU and size-level demand, not a blanket split. Full-price sell-through holds through the season.
Cash, not dead stock.
Buy the right depth against the right budget. Cash comes out of the tail and into ranges that trade.
Your agents watch the plan; your buyers make the calls.
Tightly's agents track sell-through against the receipt plan, flag the categories drifting from OTB, and stage the move — before the next buy locks.
Everyday Denim is running +9% vs plan; Merino Layers −12%. I can move $84k of open-to-buy from Wool into Denim for next week's PO — approve?
We ran open-to-buy in a workbook that was wrong by Tuesday. Now OTB moves with sell-through and the buy actually tracks the plan.
What you get off the spreadsheet.
OTB that recalculates itself
As sales, receipts and on-order move, the open-to-buy number moves with them. No Monday rebuild.
Receipts pulled from your ERP
On-order, receipts and inventory come straight from your systems. Stop re-keying the workbook.
Depth sized to real demand
Buy at the SKU and size level against the demand you'll actually see, not a blanket split.
Markdown headroom, modelled
See the exit before the season starts. Buy to clear cleanly and protect margin on the way out.
Open-to-buy, answered.
What is open-to-buy (OTB)?
Open-to-buy is the budget a buyer has left to spend on new inventory for a period, after accounting for planned sales, markdowns, and the stock already on hand or on order. It keeps the buy inside the financial plan so you don't overbuy into markdowns or underbuy into stockouts.
How is open-to-buy calculated?
OTB for a period = planned end-of-period inventory + planned sales + planned markdowns − beginning-of-period inventory − receipts already on order. Tightly calculates it live off your real sales, receipts and on-order rather than a static month-old workbook.
Can Tightly replace our open-to-buy spreadsheet?
Yes. Tightly holds the receipt plan, the demand forecast and the OTB calculation on one connected surface, updated as actuals land. Most teams move off the six-month workbook entirely.
Does it connect to our ERP?
Tightly runs on your existing ERP, EDI, e-commerce and POS. Receipts, on-order and inventory are pulled in — there's nothing to re-key and nothing to rip out.
How is this different from a demand forecasting tool?
A forecast predicts what will sell. Open-to-buy decides what you spend against it. Tightly connects the two, so the buy is written against a forecast the plan agrees with — instead of stitching a forecast tool to a spreadsheet.
Open-to-buy you can trust all season. Bring one category. Leave with a live OTB.
There's nothing to rip out — Tightly runs on your ERP, EDI, POS and WMS. Give us 30 minutes on one category and we'll show your open-to-buy moving with real sell-through.