Luxury

Scarcity-aware buys, margin-first.

Protect exclusivity and full-price sell-through — plan tight buys, place them precisely, and rarely mark down.

  • Plan scarce, precise buys that protect full price and exclusivity.
  • Run the season with the markdown lever off — residuals go to private sale only.
  • Carry hero franchises across seasons without re-guessing the buy.
Luxury — planned with Tightly

What strong luxury planning delivers

+9 pts

Full-price sell-through, with scarcity intact

0%

In-line markdown across the collection

from 11%
4%

End-of-season residual, held for private sale only

Directional benchmarks for luxury planning, not a customer guarantee — audited results are in the story below.

Why luxury planning is hard

In luxury, the markdown is the enemy. Scarcity and full-price sell-through are the brand, which means the buy has to be tight, placed precisely, and rarely corrected with a discount.

1

Scarcity is the strategy

Over-buy and you erode exclusivity; under-buy and you miss the demand you created. The margin for error is small.

2

Markdowns damage more than margin

A discount in luxury isn't just lost margin — it's a signal. The plan has to protect full price by design.

3

Precision over volume

The right unit in the right boutique matters more than total cover. Averages don't survive contact with the clientele.

Your agents

Meet your Pricing agent

Protects full-price sell-through and flags the rare line that needs a move — margin floor first.

Meet the agents
Tightly agent
just now · within your limits
Live

Re-forecast ready — 3 categories have drifted from plan this week. Want me to stage the moves for your review?

Drifted vs plan · this weekΔ wmape
Tailored Trousers+9%8%
Woolly Layers−12%11%
Activewear+5%9%
Rebalance 240u DC → SFRe-baseline OTB Q3Hold buy on OCN-072
Stage movesReview firstLogged · audit ready
See it in the product

A look at the plan, tuned for luxury.

Luxury·Full-price plan · Pre-Fall · Monarch franchise
Full-price sell-through
92%
+9 pts vs LY
In-line markdown
0%
lever off
Weeks of cover
5.1
scarcity held
End-of-season residual
4%
down from 11%
Allocation precision
98%
to demand
Full-price sell-through · over the season
cumulative %
full-price zonetypical · marked down92% full price0 in-line markdown4% residual → private salewk 1wk 7wk 13
Hero franchises · full price
Monarch Tote · hero
$2,900 · 92% full price
on track
Aria Pump
$790 · tight cover
scarcity buy
Celeste Scarf
$420 · 1 line to move
watch
Eclipse Belt · residual
$650 · controlled
private sale
Brand outcome
+9 pts
full-price sell-through — scarcity held, no in-line markdown
Planned to full price — residuals routed only to a controlled private saleLive plan · Pre-Fall
Questions luxury teams ask

The details that decide it.

The short version: yes, it fits your hierarchy, your stack and your calendar. Talk to us about your range.

Can we plan without a markdown lever?

Yes. Tightly plans to full-price sell-through and routes any residual to a controlled private sale, so the line is never discounted in-season.

How do you protect scarcity?

Buys are sized tight to demand and allocated by boutique, so you meet the demand you created without over-supplying and eroding the brand.

Does it handle multi-season hero franchises?

A carry-over franchise is planned from its own prior-season demand, so it stays in stock at full price without a fresh guess each collection.

It shows up in the numbers.

Our build plan and our demand forecast used to live in different files that disagreed by week three. On one model they reconcile live, and we build to what the market is actually pulling.
S
Head of Supply Planning
Sporting goods · made-to-demand · global
Full-price sell-through+8 pts
12 mo
96%
Availability
17%
Season markdown
1.8×
Inventory turns

Directional outcomes for a global made-to-demand maker planning demand and build to one signal.

For made-to-demand brands, top performers keep availability above 95% without building stock that waits months to sell.

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.