Merchandise Buyer
Every buy proposed, sized and costed, and judged on how it sold. The Buyer FTE turns the Demand Forecaster's forecast and the Cash Officer's cash view into purchase proposals: reorders and new lines with quantity, size run, vendor lead time, minimum order, landed cost and the cash the order commits, inside your open-to-buy. New lines are sized from the comparables you confirm. Every month it publishes the sell-through of what it recommended — the buys that worked and the ones that did not — because a buyer who hides misses cannot be trusted with the next season.
Accountable for
Every buy proposed with its size run, cash and the sell-through it is judged on
Judged on · Sell-through of what it recommended
What it does not do · It never places an order and never chooses which brands or products you carry. Above your threshold a second approver signs; below it, you still do.
It proposes · you approve · every claim carries its evidence
Workspace · Buyer FTE
Buyer FTE
Merchandise Buyer
Waiting on you · Buy · needs your approval
Proposed · high-confidence forecastReorder · linen shirt · 1,100 units across 5 sizes · lead time 34 days
Forecast with confidence · lead-time variance · minimum applied · cash and due date
Yesterday: 1 buy approved, 1 quantity edited by you (rule recorded), sell-through report refreshed.
A whole job function, not a task queue. Buyer holds the role, the targets and the budget you set, and reports to you on the numbers below.
Owns
Reports on
Needs from you
It reports in first, does the work, hands it over for approval, and measures what happened. You review it the way you review a direct report.
SKUs at their reorder point with a proposal ready; open-to-buy used; the sell-through of last month's buys.
Reorders and new lines with quantity, size run, lead time, minimum, landed cost, cash committed and days of cover.
Proposed comparables you confirm; the proposal labelled as borrowed until the line's own sales arrive.
How every recommended buy sold, misses named, and the rules your edits taught it.
Buyer reports into a workspace built for a manager, not an operator. Four of its tabs, drawn as they work.
Today
What is waiting on you comes first, then yesterday, what it noticed, and spend against budget. Read it in a minute.
Workspace · Buyer FTE · Today
Morning brief · Monday 08:00
Yesterday: 1 buy approved, 1 quantity edited by you (rule recorded), sell-through report refreshed.
Waiting on you
2 to reviewApprovals
Every publish, send or spend waits here with its verdict, its reasons and its evidence. Approve, or send it back with a note.
Workspace · Buyer FTE · Approvals
Approvals
1 waiting on you
Buyer FTE · Buy · needs your approval
Proposed · high-confidence forecastReorder · linen shirt · 1,100 units across 5 sizes · lead time 34 days
Forecast with confidence · lead-time variance · minimum applied · cash and due date
Performance
KPIs are measured, never estimated. Anything not connected yet is shown as unmeasured, not filled in.
Workspace · Buyer FTE · Performance
Sell-through, recommended · 12 weeks
Measured, not estimated
Targets
Each target carries a status and its evidence. It can propose new targets; they wait for your approval.
Workspace · Buyer FTE · Targets
Sell-through of recommended buys above 75%
78% · published monthly
Every buy approved before it is sent
9 proposed · 0 sent without a signature
No buy sized on a low-confidence forecast without your comparable
1 new line awaiting your comparable
Weight size runs by measured sell-through per size
FTE-suggested · awaiting your approval
Illustrative workspace frames · the tabs, verdicts and statuses are real product surfaces; the figures are samples.
Every buy proposed, sized and costed, and judged on how it sold. The Buyer FTE turns the Demand Forecaster's forecast and the Cash Officer's cash view into purchase proposals: reorders and new lines with quantity, size run, vendor lead time, minimum order, landed cost and the cash the order commits, inside your open-to-buy. New lines are sized from the comparables you confirm. Every month it publishes the sell-through of what it recommended — the buys that worked and the ones that did not — because a buyer who hides misses cannot be trusted with the next season.
Each proposal carries quantity, size run, lead time, landed cost, the cash committed and the days of cover it buys
New lines are sized from comparables you confirm, labelled as borrowed until their own sales arrive
Sell-through of every recommended buy is published monthly, misses included
Skills
Beyond the weekly routine, you give it missions: a goal, a scope, a deadline, and progress you can see. Three modes, all of them bounded.
A bounded plan from forecast to purchase orders, inside open-to-buy and the cash ceiling, each order approved.
Ranked causes: size run, timing, a comparable that did not fit, a supplier that shipped late.
Sell-through and contribution by category, with the reallocation it proposes.
Diagnoses arrive as ranked hypotheses with evidence, never as certainties.
Buyer connects to the systems below with the permissions you grant, per organization and per property, and nothing more. Connections can be revoked at any time.
Store platform
Stock and suppliers
Where you review its work
It starts at Level 0 and earns autonomy one step at a time. You grant each level when the evidence says so, and you can take it back at any time.
Proposes only
Every draft, launch, send or spend waits in Approvals. This is where every FTE starts.
Low-risk on its own
You allow routine actions you have approved many times: refreshes, reply drafts, reconciliations that match exactly.
Acts inside caps
It may pause losers, scale winners or publish scheduled work, always inside the budget and rules you set.
Runs the week
Scheduled production runs; you review the brief, the exceptions and the numbers. Any level can be taken back at any time.
Approvals
1 waiting on you
Buyer FTE · Buy · needs your approval
Proposed · high-confidence forecastReorder · linen shirt · 1,100 units across 5 sizes · lead time 34 days
Forecast with confidence · lead-time variance · minimum applied · cash and due date
Illustrative approvals queue · budget and spend are always visible beside it.
Instant onboarding: it is on your team the same day you sign up.
Create your organization. Buyer is added to your workforce from the link below.
Grant the tools it needs and confirm the targets it proposes. It never asks for what the platform already knows.
Its first brief and first proposals land in Approvals the same day.
Short answers. The docs have the long ones.
Never. Every buy is a proposal with its cash impact; the approver you named signs, and orders above your threshold need a second signature.
Nothing that leaves your company. Buyer proposes first: every publish, send or spend waits in Approvals with its reasons and evidence. You can grant more autonomy step by step and take it back at any time. Every action is logged.
Plans are token-metered blocks of work, not seats. Every FTE in your organization draws from one wallet whose balance is always visible in the workspace. At zero the FTEs pause; they never overdraw.
Sign up, connect the tools the role needs, and confirm the targets it proposes. Roles marked instant onboarding are working the same day; roles marked custom onboarding are scoped with our team first.
Your data stays scoped to your organization and, where it applies, to the specific property the FTE works on. Integration credentials are encrypted at rest and can be revoked at any time.
Every role holds its own targets and budget; hire one or several, they share one wallet and one workspace.
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Sign up, connect the tools it needs, and review its first proposals this week.
