Planning (OTB)

Fully-integrated to the centralized database, ChainDrive OTB offers the flexibility, dynamic controls and user-definable views to seamlessly handle planning in units, dollars and/or at cost, down to sub-class. With built-in graphing capabilities, top-down or bottom up allocation, and a myriad of performance indicators, our OTB takes planning to the next level and empowers your business to make profitable buying decisions.

Key Features

  • Leverages historical contribution patterns to determine precise dollar distribution
  • Provides meaningful comparative analysis of sales and inventory data using charts and drill-downs
  • Accurate stock level forecasting via stock to sales ratios that generate relevant receipt patterns
  • Flexible planning and forecasting of units, retail and cost
  • Powerful top down and bottom up allocation, including the ability to lock and unlock desired results at all levels
  • Ability to plan for, monitor and maintain multiple seasons simultaneously
  • Dynamic controls, segment views, critical indicators and an extensive options list
  • Rectification of stock level issues through automatic reformulation of actualized sales
 

Comparative Analysis

Using historical data from the central database ChainDrive OTB offers simple, easy to view comparatives at all levels. This feature enhances your ability to leverage actualized historical statistics and use them as benchmarks against any future plans.

Dynamic Controls

Far surpassing common expectations, our OTB employs dynamic controls that facilitate the process by incorporating flexible and adaptable views with superb functionality that puts you in charge.

Plan, Validate & Lock

ChainDrive OTB empowers the user with beneficial functionality such as the ability to lock and unlock a single data cell or an entire sub-level plan. This feature ensures that in planning mode, areas you want frozen and thus not affected by additional or ongoing adjustment will be maintained.

Multi-Season

The system lets you plan at the season level, ensuring that your results are pertinent and meaningful and reflect a true OTB for seasonal merchandise.

Intuitively, the OTB consolidates all seasonal plans into a corporate view, ensuring that the sum of the parts matches up with your overall desired objectives.

Segmented Views

Designed to be adaptive to various users, business requirements and analytical viewpoints, the OTB is completely versatile and lets the user decide what data to view and how it should be displayed. ChainDrive OTB allows you to pre-select the label sets you wish to view, change their order as required, add new labels or remove unwanted ones, all with a click of your mouse. In other words, view your data the way you need to see it.

Graphing Data

“Numbers are important, but a picture is worth a thousand words.” This is why the OTB enables you to instantly graph your data, providing a powerful visual comparison of similar data or simply the data you select. Whether selecting this year versus last year, sales versus markdowns, purchases versus gross margin, or any other multiple combination, the system provides it to you instantaneously.