Dmitry Goykhman, Founder & CEOA number of solutions on the market can often be cost-prohibitive, require long and difficult implementations, and come with a steep learning curve.
This is where ANT USA steps in to address the complexity and costs associated with essential aspects of retail planning and forecasting.
"Our mission is to consistently outpace the competition by delivering superior solutions that excel in quality, speed, and affordability. We achieve this by dedicating over half of our earnings to ongoing development efforts, ensuring business process stability, continuous innovation, and superior customer service for our user base," says Dmitry Goykhman, founder and CEO of ANT USA.
Anchored in a proven track record of implementation and development, ANT USA's Buyers Toolbox Solution Suite continues to gain market share and user base growth. In particular, Buyer's Toolbox AP stands out as a leader in the field of Merchandise Planning and OTB. Its primary purpose is to address the challenge of delivering a best-in-class planning solution, capable of integrating with diverse ERP and merchandising systems through a unified data interface. This foundational product forms the cornerstone for an extensive range of solutions, including merchandise financial planning, assortment and collection planning, sales forecasting, basic allocation and replenishment, margin optimization, and more.
The versatility of Buyer's Toolbox AP empowers retailers to perform a wide array of what-if analytics and forecasting tasks, covering a broad spectrum of KPIs for sales, inventory, receipts, margins, and more. Buyers Toolbox AP offers a high degree of flexibility without a full-time administrator, thereby streamlining operations and reducing personnel costs.
The Solution Suite includes Toolbox Data Science, itself a collection of advanced mathematical analytics that extract actionable insights from historical product/location/time data. Toolbox BAR provides a pre-integrated basic replenishment and allocation system with Store-to-Store Transfers and Open to Ship outputs tying into Merchandise Planning goals on the Item/ Store/Week basis.
Taking over from human-driven planning functionality, the AI-enabled Toolbox Planning Robot automates the intricate tasks of sales forecasting, inventory and receipt planning, and core Open To Buy generation. The Planning Robot acts as a force multiplier for the planning team.
ANT USA's organic growth has resulted in financial strength and independence from VC and PE investors, providing long-term stability and peace of mind for its customers.
Our mission is to consistently outpace the competition by delivering superior solutions that excel in quality, speed, and affordability in the market
ANT USA primarily relies on client referrals rather than aggressive marketing efforts to drive its business, reflecting the company's commitment to building its user base one satisfied customer at a time.
One remarkable example involves a Tier 2 retailer with just two analysts planning over 800 classes. They transitioned from basic spreadsheets to detailed category planning and OTB with ANT USA, producing a virtually immeasurable ROI.
In another case, sales forecasting produced results 100X faster than manual planning methods, allowing for rapid in-season reforecasting.
In a third customer, a bottom-up business process was introduced for assortment planning, facilitating detailed planning for thousands of items across hundreds of stores with remarkable efficiency.
Another customer reported a 50% reduction in inventory and a 5% increase in sales within six months of deploying ANT USA's system, attributing the improvements to better planning.
Customer satisfaction is paramount, and ANT USA is dedicated to long-term success, bolstered by its track record and long-term plans.
