Automatic OTB  Imagine uses "last years numbers" as a base for the projected OTB Plan.  To this are added +/- your adjustments or plugs to forecast OTB to any level of vendor, store or merchandise classification.  Planning can be done using retail, cost or units or any combination.  AIM items (basics) planned orders are created by Imagine based on the AIM forecast and subtracted from OTB as a set aside for automatically replenished items.  Control your entire merchandise budget.

Merchandise Planning uses a categories planned purchases as a budget to manage the ordering of items within this category.  With the category budget on the screen the buyer enters planned orders (retail, cost or units) for each item.  Planned orders are immediately rolled up to the category for control purposes.  The entire categories individual and total planned and actual orders can be viewed on the same screen.   Order merchandise within the budget set in OTB.  Great for fashion items.

Automatic Pre-distribution to stores  Orders planned by company, when approved, can automatically be spread to stores based on each stores historic performance within this items merchandise category.  The pre-distribution can be adjusted prior to creation of a sized purchase order.  Order by company and allow Imagine to distribute by store performance within this category.  Super way to pre-distribute fashion items.

Automatic Purchase Orders The pre-distributed planned orders are now turned into actual PO's.  Adjusted or accepted pre-distributed orders are expanded using historic sizes sold by store to create an accurate PO by size.  These can also be adjusted.  In any event, they can be mailed, e-mailed, faxed or sent EDI to the vendor.   Why create PO's manually when Imagine knows size/run % by category and can create sized PO's automatically.  Let I plan's pre-distribution module drive the automatic creation of sized PO's.

Automatic Item Management Basic or replenishable  items are included in the OTB plan but are best managed by a separate system called AIM.  AIM uses historic information both past seasonal and present sales trends.  AIM uses this information to dynamically adjust model stocks.  These "Dynamic Models" are maintained weekly by Imagine.  Dynamic models are used by auto stock balance and auto reorder to maintain this inventory at the levels set in your AIM business rules.   Use the Size Tool to check on AIM models.   Basic or replenishable merchandise is perfect for automation.  Imagine can do this job for you.

All I Plan features are managed by Business Rules that you can tailor.