Merchandise Planning

Merchandise Planning is where you set an open-to-buy budget for each season. You plan sales, markdowns and ending stock for each category or brand, and SKU.io works out how much you still have to buy. You work on Inventory → Merchandise Planning.

To…	Go to…
understand the open-to-buy formula and how purchase orders use up the budget	How open-to-buy works
create a season, seed the plan and set ending stock	Build an open-to-buy plan
compare the plan with actual sales and receipts, and enforce the budget on buys	Track plan vs actual