SMART is a comprehensive merchandise analysis systems designed to help retailers leverage their most important asset - their inventory. Smart enables buyers and inventory managers to gain the highest ROI by analyzing key retail indicators, performing drill down analysis to the SKU level. SMART allows the buyer to define Budgets and monitor performance against them. SMART is the management of purchasing dollars to sales and inventory levels. Sounds complex but what this means to you as a business owner, is that it empowers you with the right knowledge for inventory control, purchasing decisions, and sales forecasting.

SMART requires an initial investment in time and attention to build out a realistic plan, and diligence to maintain it as you go through the year or a season. But it can yield dramatic results quickly in most situations, from increased sales to leaner inventories and reduced markdowns and overstocks. It's a tool that in the hands of a fully committed retailer can profoundly improve financial performance.

Our SMART system integrates with CounterPoint SQL so that tracking and updating of sales and inventory data is automatic, all you have to do is analyze the data to make informative decisions. By adjusting the turn rates you can see how much inventory is needed to meet the demand. It takes the guesswork out of merchandising issues by protecting against under/over buying and enabling you to effectively discount and move merchandise.

With C&K System's SMART, you can make your business more efficient and more profitable by really understanding how departments, classes, and vendors are performing in your stores before you waste valuable inventory dollars. You can bring in more of the items that are selling in time for the current season, cut back of the underperformers and effectively manage markdowns. You can offset the markdown loss with better selling/faster moving merchandise.

Get SMART to make the Open to Buy process simple and straightforward for maximum use and profitability.