PROVEN IMPACT ON AVAILABILITY, INVENTORY & SERVICE LEVELS FOR +1,500 CUSTOMERS

The trusted partner in open to buy excellence

ACHIEVE FINANCIAL CONTROL AND ELIMINATE OVERSPENDING RISKS

Why Slimstock?

Through the Slim4 platform, Slimstock’s open to buy (OTB) capabilities help businesses to align orders with budgets, integrating cashflow constraints into the inventory process.

Offset seasonality challenges: optimise forecasts, inventory, and spend even in sectors where demand fluctuates.
Align procurement with finance: factor in exposure, real-time stock, backorders, and incoming orders.
Clear visibility, always: maintain a real-time view of remaining OTB to enable better control over investments.

AN ALL-IN-ONE OPEN TO BUY SOLUTION

Benefits to help you maximise budget efficiency through real-time visibility

Align purchasing with available budgets

Slim4 ensures complete visibility of budgets, ensuring you don’t overcommit capital to inventory, which creates excess stock, which further saps finances.

Forecast and drive company growth

Slim4’s OTB functionality flags gaps between growing demand and existing budgets, allowing for proactive responses, and informed strategy for future company growth.

Feed off ‘what if’ scenarios for optimal decisions

Buyers often struggle to balance order advice with finance limits. Slim4 presents the impact of new orders on remaining OTB, so you can weigh-up decisions and make optimal investments.

Optimise investments with data-driven accuracy

Slim4 ensures stock levels align with financial constraints through clear visibility of real-time data. Purchasing strategies can then be adjusted proactively, to maintain availability in the most cost-effective way.

Operate with real-time visibility

Situations can change quickly, so Slim4 provides real-time insights into remaining budgets after considering all stock, backorders, and planned purchases.

Enhance collaboration across teams

Slim4’s OTB functionality automatically aligns purchasing, supply chain, and finance teams to encourage greater collaboration in real-time, and in longer-term strategic planning.

KEY FEATURES OF SLIM4 OPEN TO BUY SOFTWARE

Making inventory management simple for consistent retail success

Completely informed purchasing decisions

Slim4 provides real-time visibility of budget allocation relative to available inventory, so all purchasing decisions are made with both factors synchronised.

Exposure-based budgeting

Financial exposure is translated into days of inventory, to monitor ongoing feasibility of investments. Slim4 ensures inventory investments align with not only available budgets, but broader business goals.

Weigh-up decisions with clear visibility

See and understand how proposed purchases would affect remaining OTB, so you can guarantee product availability without overspending and exceeding financial limits.

Adjust proactively before issues arise

With Slim4’s OTB software, you can quickly identify current or potential working capital constraints. When OTB turns negative, or is forecast to do so, you’ll have the insight to make timely and effective adjustments.

Customise and arrange OTB views in a strategic way

Slim4 tracks OTB by different business units, regions, and categories, meaning you can tailor OTB management to varying business needs or through hierarchical strategy.

Solutions aligned to your open to buy responsibilities

Capital efficiency through full cashflow control

The C-suite needs to ensure that working capital is allocated efficiently at all times. Slim4’s OTB functionality prevents overstocking, feeds high demand areas, and helps to allocate resources according to where the biggest growth potential lies.

Retain operational scalability no matter the size or trajectory of the business.
Detect OTB risk instantly to keep your budgets away from danger.
Prioritise key growth opportunities with clear visibility.

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Complete alignment for optimised decisions

Supply chain teams can only optimise decisions and strategy if they have all information to hand. Our OTB solution provides real-time visibility and alerts to ensure all decisions are made with budget limitations in mind.

Align order suggestions with financial objectives.
Avoid exceeding available OTB through real-time alerts.
Plan future supply with confidence and clarity.

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Let visibility feed certainty

Slim4’s OTB capabilities ensure purchasing teams don’t overspend or under-order. Rather, they can prioritise critical items and rely on user-defined hierarchies, while remaining within financial limits, always.

Prevent overspending and under-ordering.
Prioritise with confidence.
Align individual category management with broader business strategy.

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Reliable systems, reliable data

Manually managing OTB through spreadsheets or siloes systems leads to errors, inconsistencies, and a lot of human effort. Slim4 centralises calculations, scales seamlessly, reduces maintenance, and has self-service capabilities to free up time and money.