Market-leading retail inventory planning software

Whether you’re looking to better control your inventory levels with new software, or you want to unlock better inventory functionality with Linnworks, Inventory Planner can help.

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Better inventory planning, lower overstock and stockouts risks

If you’re struggling with fluctuating inventory levels, it may be time to reevaluate your inventory planning processes.

Smart inventory planning is key to ensuring the right stock levels across all your inventory locations, especially when supply chains and customer demand keep fluctuating…

Here’s where Inventory Planner steps in.

Know exactly what to buy, and when to buy it

Reliable customer demand forecasting
Smarter, easier inventory purchasing
Best-in-class overstock report
Align your marketing with purchasing
Multi-location inventory planning
Bundle and assembly inventory planning
Simple, powerful reports
Optimize shipping + storage costs
Cleverly predict sales for new products

Reliable customer demand forecasting

Forecasts are updated constantly, factoring in seasonality, marketing, abnormal sales spikes and customer demand shifts for ultimate accuracy.

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Smarter, easier inventory purchasing

Get automated buying recommendations that are easy for your whole team to understand. Customize for each SKU, location, supplier, bundle, assembly or by custom category. No more over (or under) ordering!

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Best-in-class overstock report

Insights you won’t get anywhere else that enable you to liquidate excess inventory without having stockouts, like last sold date, overstock units and overstock costs.

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Align your marketing with purchasing

Signed up an influencer? Planning a big promotion? Adjust your purchasing to factor in the potential order spikes, so you won’t annoy hard-won new customers by running out of stock.

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Multi-location inventory planning

Get reliable inventory purchasing and warehouse transfer recommendations based on up-to-date forecasts, for each of your locations including your physical stores, warehouses, FBAs and 3PLs.

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Bundle and assembly inventory planning

Inventory Planner breaks forecasts down to component level and tells you how much inventory of each component is needed, plus when to order it.

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Simple, powerful reports

We turn your complex, siloed inventory and sales data into 200+ meaningful and intuitive metrics (from top level detail to granular SKU-by-SKU analysis).

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Optimize shipping + storage costs

Scale your purchase order based on CBM or weight to max out shipping container or warehouse space and reduce costs.

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Cleverly predict sales for new products

Inventory Planner ‘borrows’ sales data from similar products to predict demand for new items (including size, color, fabric and pattern), slashing the risk of over or under ordering.

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From SMBs to billion-dollar brands…

Retail, e-commerce, DTC, wholesale and manufacturing brands small and large rely on Inventory Planner

"Using Inventory Planner, we were able to cut out 'days of outstanding inventory' in half - which freed up around $1.5M. "

Kevin Dalaeli, President and COO at Kos

"Inventory Planner has definitely been an enabler for growth. We rely on that gross profit margin, so to have an accurate, top-line profit margin at all times allows us to effectively manage that bottom line. When your business is making 10 million plus, it’s far too risky to hope for the best – it’s vital the figures are representative of truth."

Richard Udeze, Financial Director at Maniere De Voir

"Inventory Planner has been phenomenal for us. It’s given us real time certainty in a volatile marketplace."

Trevor Martin, Vice President Operations at Snow

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who is Inventory Planner for?

Inventory Planner is the market-leading inventory planning software that is designed to help retail, e-commerce and wholesale merchants buy the right inventory at the right time, based on reliable predictions of how much they’ll sell.

We support 2,600+ worldwide brands from startups to billion-dollar companies in every industry imaginable – from apparel to electronic goods.

If you run a retail, e-commerce or wholesale business that holds stock, and you want to reduce your out-of-stock ratio while avoiding overbuying inventory, Inventory Planner is for you.

2. Do I still need Inventory Planner if I'm already using Linnworks for inventory management?

Short answer: yes! Longer answer: Inventory Management System like Linnworks is useful for tracking goods, but it doesn’t help you forecast demand and plan your inventory purchasing, especially when market trends are rapidly changing and consumer demand is unpredictable. Inventory Planner does.

Plus, Inventory Planner is seamlessly integrates with Linnworks, utilizing your sales and inventory data to provide reliable demand forecasting and hassle-free inventory purchasing recommendations.

In a nutshell, if you’re experiencing out of stock or excess stock issues, you should try Inventory Planner.

3. How is Inventory Planner different from other providers?

We’re proud to stand out from the crowd in a number of ways, including…

We’re true leaders in our field: Unlike generic inventory softwares, Inventory Planner is a market-leading specialized solution. We started back in 2012 (when inventory planning wasn’t even a ‘thing’!) and we’ve spent more than a decade fine-tuning our forecasting and inventory planning models so they get results, even in turbulent times.
Our forecasting is transparent and customizable: We believe you can only make informed decisions when you fully understand your data. With Inventory Planner, you’ll know exactly how your forecasting has been calculated (and you can tweak it to suit your needs), so you can take our forecasts and purchasing recommendations and use them to help you meet your goals.
We’re always evolving, just like the e-commerce market: As part of Sage Group, we’re able to invest heavily and regularly in our innovation, so we’re always a step ahead of our competition when it comes to offering reliable forecasting and intelligent purchasing recommendations, even as markets shift.

4. How does Inventory Planner pricing work?