CHIEF PLANNING OFFICERS
Your Outsourced Inventory and Merchandise Planning Team
Our planning teams are experts in designing and implementing planning strategies that drive growth and success in your business.
WHAT WE DO
Chief Planning Officers empowers retailers with the planning tools and actionable insights to improve sales performance and maximize inventory efficiency. We fuel an inspiring shopping experience for our clients by having the right product assortment, in the right quantities, at the right time and in the right sizes. Our customized platform allows you to manage your inventory and merchandise planning at the scale, speed and quality that your business demands.
HOW IT WORKS
If you’re a business that's short on inventory and merchandise planning talent, you’ve likely experienced a number of growth-limiting challenges. Chief Planning Officers provides part-time planning executives to small and mid-sized businesses for a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time planner.
THINK PLANNING AS A SERVICE
One way to think about Chief Planning Officers fractional planning service is that you can "rent" exactly the type of experience and amount of planning support you need. Our unique a-la-carte model allows you to choose the services you need, and leave the ones you don’t.
OUR BIG COMPANY EXPERIENCE WILL HELP YOU GROW
Unlike consulting firms, we have over 25 years of executive experience leading the planning teams for world renowned fashion brands in the women's, men's, accessories, shoes, beauty and children's segments. Tapping these skills, we've helped grow small and mid-sized companies with proven planning strategies.
WHY CHIEF PLANNING OFFICERS
Industry Specialist
25+ years of executive experience in retail & fashion operations for digital and brick & mortar global brands gives CPOs the experience necessary to increase sales and profitability.
Lifestyle Brand Builder
Built heritage brands renowned for their signature style. Offers a unique point of view by merging financial planning with a fashion sensibility.
Leader in multiple functions
Previous experience leading a wide array of functions including planning, allocation, merchandising and buying for brick & mortar and ecommerce businesses.
Chief Planning Officers helps clients to:
- Uncover the sales trends within your business
- Determine areas for growth and create actionable plans to achieve results
- Strategize how to flow merchandise and maximize cash flow
- Know your Open-to-Buy so every dollar spent on inventory is optimized
- Create a regular and consistent analysis of your business each month, enabling our clients to understand business drivers and react real time to trends
WHAT WE OFFER
Chief Planning Officers helps ecommerce and brick & mortar retailers make intelligent inventory decisions.
Chief Planning Officers is an outsourced inventory and merchandise planning solution, much like an outsourced digital marketing agency or accountant.
Our planners have decades of experience generating and overseeing successful open-to-buy, inventory, merchandise and assortment planning strategies for brands and retailers in diverse industries. We review your business and create a custom inventory and merchandising strategy to identify trends, maximize opportunities and provide customized actions necessary to achieve your business objectives.
MONTH TO MONTH. customized for you. NO LONG TERM CONTRACTS. CHEAPER THAN HIRING IN HOUSE.
ESSENTIAL VIEWS TO SUCCESS
Inventory planning, or Open-to-Buy planning as it is also called, is the core of our business because it puts our clients in the best position to understand selling trends, purchase the right amount of inventory, and create the optimal merchandising strategy.
Inventory and merchandise planning services give you critical , easy to act-upon information, freeing you up to focus on other parts of your business.
The CPOs propitiatory system uses Three Essential Views to Success:
"If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. "
Jeff Bezos
