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Inventory Management Services

You don’t need workarounds when you have a team to work with.

Unlike inventory forecasting software that leaves you with more work and more questions, we ensure you’re equipped with the demand forecasting, reporting, merchandise planning, and hands-on inventory management you need to deeply understand your business and smash your goals.

Top-Tier Expertise without the Full-Time Expense:

Reporting + Analysis

Easy-to-digest, actionable data are key to running a profitable business. Get weekly and monthly reporting, seasonal hindsights, and category deep dives, plus resources to investigate open questions and analyze opportunities:

  • Understand what products, categories, or channels are driving sales, profit, and productivity.

  • Receive customized daily/weekly/monthly reports with relevant inventory, customer, IMU and profitability metrics. 

  • Assess key consumer trends that drive purchasing preferences in each category. 

  • Analyze and (finally) launch growth projects that have been continually put off due to competing resources.

  • Develop a go-forward strategy by analyzing previous triumphs and challenges and, most importantly, understanding the “why” behind past performance.

Demand Forecasting

Nailing your sales plan is crucial to planning inventory investments (AKA your biggest expense) and other vital business resources.

To prepare for the future, we must start in the past. We analyze historical data to plan with precision and forecast trends to proactively anticipate pivots:

  • Understand the inputs of revenue and demand to forecast future sales, margin, and pricing.

  • Develop your pricing strategy so you can coordinate decisions with an analytical approach, taking cost, margin, and market comps into account.

  • Model planned promotions for expected profit impact as well as expected consumer behavior (e.g. drive more customers to the shop or increase the value of their baskets.)

  • Create a customized launch order tool to facilitate the placement of pre-season purchase orders and new product launches.

  • Gain confidence that you’ll never leave sales on the table because your pre-season buy was accurate.

Assortment Planning

We work alongside you, keeping a constant pulse on sales and assortment to illuminate blind spots and stay one step ahead:

  • Tailor your assortment planning to growth goals with data-driven tools and processes. 

  • Consider historical performance with inventory trends to support product extensions, assortment expansion, and new category launches. 

  • Ensure a highly productive core assortment with optimal pricing by establishing lifecycle status of all products. 

  • Leverage hindsighting and seasonal assortment reviews to manage excess, unproductive inventory and strategize to buy new products based on past successes.

  • Establish budgets and prepare SKU-level targets for your design and development teams to launch productive assortments.

Inventory Management

Every customer interaction hinges on quality inventory management. We’ll help you scale sustainably and sleep easy knowing you’ll always have the right product at the right time:

  • Avoid markdowns, out of stocks, and lost sales with effective forecasting and replenishment plans.

  • Stay ahead of seasonal spikes through data-backed planning and routine reviews.

  • Identify and isolate “core” items and appropriately reorder using our Demand Forecasting Model.

  • Receive crucial Inventory Alert Reports that outline out-of-stock and overstock items at the exact right time. 

  • Implement a dynamic but sustainable inventory management system accounting for projected sales with current and projected inventory levels. 

How It Works:

1. Free Consultation

We start with a no-pressure conversation to understand your needs and vision. We’ll explain our merchandise planning services, answer any questions, and discuss how Boon can best support your business growth.

2. Flexible Contract

We’ll develop a customized, transparent contract outlining responsibilities so you’re never stuck wondering who’s doing what. We’ll work with you to fine-tune projects and evolve your contract as needed so you feel clear and comfortable every step of the way.

3. We Get To Work

After a short diligence and onboarding period, we get up and running quickly. We can serve as your merchandise planning team, your analysis assistant, your inventory managers, and more!

“Boon acts as a seamless extension of our merchandising team. An amazing experience again and again!”

“A wonderful team of women who really cares about the success of your business.” 

“Boon is incredibly knowledgeable, flexible, and personalized to each client’s unique requirements.”

FAQ

  • We bring 200+ years of combined experience (yikes) so you get senior-level expertise without the price tag of a full-time inventory planner. With experience at some of the world’s best retailers, we live by best practices that save our clients from costly investments, operational mistakes, and forecasting errors. Minimize risk of attrition or human error with a whole team of experts instead of a single inventory planner.

  • Rather than selling you software that requires you to learn how to operate and integrate it, Boon uses your existing data management software to analyze outputs and make recommendations. Beyond protecting profits as you scale, we’ll help you streamline processes, create inventory accuracy tools, and build repeatable systems that empower you to take meaningful action.

  • Unlike complex tech that leaves you with more work and worry, we bring a human touch so you’re equipped with accurate planning, forecasting, and reporting WITH the human expertise it takes to understand and actually use that knowledge.

    We love our tech, but even the best tools require that someone on the team learns it, manages it, and shares a digested version of the data with the decision makers. As long as we're humans selling to humans, nothing beats real-world critical thinking.

  • Our onboarding is customized depending on your specific needs. We move quickly, though time may vary depending on which services are most needed. If you’re interested in exploring support, reach out right away so we can start the conversation!

When you’re ready for industry leading performance without the expense of a full time hire, you can trust Boon to make expert inventory management look easy.

Because when you work with us, it is

Our Partners

As a human-centered brand, collaboration and connection are at the heart of all we do. While we bring expertise in merchandise planning and inventory management, we’re proud to recommend trusted partners who bring expertise in other critical areas for any retail business to thrive: