The question this page answers
How deep do I buy each style before the season opens, and with what money?
What you see
- 1The money line, Buying budget, Placed, Open to commit and Reserve.
- 2Take it turns a style's forecast into its planned depth in one press.
- 3The strip under the table, where Add to Bench sits once a style has a depth.
Work the buy is a pre-season commitment's own room for setting the buy, opened from the room as Plan the buy; once the season is open, the worked buy stays reachable under Scenarios, read only. The head carries the commitment's money line, extended while the buy is worked: Buying budget, Placed, Open to commit and Reserve, then Worked buy (the working copy's depths at unit cost), Funded (the part the envelope pays for) and Remaining to plan, which reads Into the buying reserve once the buy spends past the line, or Over the envelope once it passes it. A Buy mix button beside the head opens a chart of the buy.
The work runs in six steps, shown as tabs over the table: first what the accounts have booked, then Forecast, Planned buy, Ship windows, Open to buy, and last the step to sign off. Planned buy is the style grid: one row per style, with Style, the booked units and the plan, Planned buy, Moved, Value at cost, Unit cost, Forecast, vs forecast, Return, Set by and the buying requirements, each column shown where it has something to say. Set by says who decided the depth: Forecast where nobody has, Engine where it was handed to the replenishment engine, the person's name (or You), Nobody yet where there is no depth, or Cut to zero.
Actions, over the table, carries the grid's tools: saved views, grouping, adding a column, and importing or exporting the grid as seen. Details, on the head, opens a column beside the tab; on a working tab it holds Decisions, the decisions open on this commitment, each with its own act.
What to do
- Open a pre-season commitment's room and choose Plan the buy.
- For a style you agree with, press Take it under its forecast.
- For any other style, type the depth directly in Planned buy.
- Where a style needs one, open its row and use Set a size split or Set a colour split.
- Use Actions to group the grid, add a column, or save the view under a name.
- Press Undo in the summary above the grid to withdraw a depth you did not intend.
- When every style you intend to buy has a depth, press Add to Bench. See Add to Bench.
Writing a depth needs Read & write access; a refusal appears on the refused row's own cell with the server's sentence, never as a band over the grid.
The room's other acts sit under On this commitment: Sign off, Amend the declaration, Change what it covers, Release the chase, Retire it and Close and reckon, each opening as a drawer over the page. The same menu opens the declaration, Open to buy and, before the season, the agreed book.
When it is empty or failed
No commitment with that id.
The commitment did not load, so nothing below would be safe to act on.
Where the table would be, the tab says why it is empty in one line: Styles failed to load., The commitment covers no style., or the server's own reason where the styles cannot be measured. With no depth set, the foot reads:
Nothing to hand over; no depth is recorded yet.