Retail Inventory Plans & Forecasts
Minimize losses.
Maximize cash flow.
Expert-backed inventory plans, forecasts and reports for independent retailers.
Stop flying blind when it comes to your inventory
Never knowing if you’re under or overbought on merchandise
Plateaued sales and lost cash flow
Making decisions based on emotion, not data
Increase cash and profits with expert level inventory plans built for your retail business
Small to Midsize Retailers
✅ Education + Growth + Decision Making
✅ Under $10 Million in revenue
✅ Challenges with overstock, time management and/or cash flow.
"M1 offers a roadmap for growth and scalability, offering key insight into what's working and what's not for our retail store."
Mallory Dabney, Owner, heyday
Large Retailers
✅ Data Decisions + Offloading Tasks + Efficiency
✅ $10 Million+ in revenue
✅ Challenges with efficiency (manual spreadsheets), multi-location planning, and/or using data to forecast trends.
“We saw drastic results. We were over-inventoried and it made us a better store. It's the best investment we ever made. It pays for itself."
Rita Phillips, Director, Iowa State University Book Store
M1 retailers reduce their inventory by over $300,000 on average in their first year
Harness your data
Our data platform, Retail ORBIT®, provides on-demand reporting powered by your POS that empowers you to spot opportunities faster than ever before.
Increase cash flow
We use data to help retailers focus on the freshness of their inventory, so you can keep cash moving and continue to grow.
Power growth
With less cash tied up in inventory and trusted data to make decisions, you can make your vision for the future a reality.
Why use Management One
Inventory planning—often called open-to-buy (OTB)—reveals how much inventory you need to meet demand.
The fundamentals are simple, but accurate planning requires accurate projections, and predicting the future—especially in uncertain times—is no simple thing.
With over 30 years of helping independent retailers, our proven inventory plans are catered specifically for your business to increase cash-flow, with optimal (or less) inventory.
Proper merchandise planning is the only way to maintain control when outside factors bring uncertainty in their wake.
Leverage your POS with Custom Plans and Forecasts
Our proven system begins with using your unique POS data to identify trends and opportunities that will increase cash flow and put your inventory to work. When fed into our Retail ORBIT® software, it uncovers hidden opportunities backed by your own store data.
For decades, we’ve created winning, data-driven plans and strategies for thousands of retailers across the globe.
Regardless of store size, type, or history—through recessions, tech revolutions, and pandemics—our proven approach to inventory education and planning has remained the same, because the universal truths of retail never change.
Put your data to work
Our intuitive web-based platform, Retail ORBIT®, puts the power of our plan directly into your hands.
With POS-integration, real-time reporting, and reliable analytics, Retail ORBIT gives you the transparency and confidence you need to stick to the plan that will work for you.