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What is daVinci Buying?

daVinci Buying is a planning software for retail designed to eliminate individual spreadsheets on users’ desktops, which are error-prone and inaccessible to other parts of the organization. daVinci Buying is a collaborative platform that unifies all buy plans into a highly intuitive, merchant-centric cloud application, backed by a centralized enterprise database. daVinci’s retail management system provides visibility to open to buy and to the individual merchant level to any summary level to provide a 360o view of your business in real-time. daVinci Buying transforms the way retailers manage their buying process by improving efficiencies, so merchants can get back time to be merchants.

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Improve buyer productivity by 25%

How much time do you spend importing, copying, pasting, and massaging data for management reporting every week?

Automate.

  • Eliminate the stress of those weekly management meetings where your team spends hours manually pulling data for your reports with automatic update of actual sales information.
  • Say goodbye to your frustrations of looking at inconsistent data and report formats. Get standardized and up to the minute reports at the push of a button, any time.
  • Multi-user access for all your buyers, planners, allocators, and managers so the whole team can work simultaneously.
  • Backed by a single, centralized enterprise database, everything is in one place and integrated with your internal systems.

One version of the truth

Studies show – 88% of all spreadsheets have errors. It’s not surprising. Just think, the overwritten formulas, data entry typos, inconsistent calculations, suspect data sources…

Trust.

  • Get your confidence back with a centralized calculation engine that ensures data integrity.
  • Seamless integration to your PO system to eliminate duplication of data entry.
  • Commit buys with a single click and sends information directly to your PO system without re-keying.
  • Get data updates automatically from your internal systems without user intervention.

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Mitigate Risk

Change management in any organization is a concern. User adoption tops the list of reasons for failed system implementations.

Created by merchants for merchants.

  • Unlike other planning applications, daVinci was purpose-built for merchants by merchants who have been in their shoes themselves.
  • Instead of forcing a linear planning workflow, daVinci is highly intuitive and works the way merchants work.
  • With automated data integration from other internal systems, daVinci is the application of choice for merchants.
  • Our design and continuous update and insight ensure you get your return on investment quickly. Our onboarding time is 30-60 days.

Better Buy Decisions

Now that you know you can trust the numbers and eliminated the manual work with automatic integration, you can leverage our best practice analysis to make better decisions.

Insight Driven.

  • We’ve been honing our craft for over 15 years at daVinci. Before that, we were retail merchants and planners. We’ve taken all that experience and embedded them into our application.
  • You benefit immediately from our out-of-the-box retail analytics capabilities not possible in spreadsheets.
  • Pre-configured reports that incorporate industry best practices such as on-demand storyboards and product mix analysis.
  • Real-time insights and what-if scenarios while you plan, not seen with existing BI tools.
Retail Analytics 

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Agility is a Matter of Survival in the New Normal

Organization Agility

In today’s competitive retail landscape, the business reality is constantly changing. How quickly can your organization react to change?

Speed.

  • Management requires a 360° view of the business. Real-time—instant roll-ups and what-if scenarios are key to decision making.
  • Today’s enterprises can not afford to make decisions on bad information. A single version of the truth is critical to survival.
  • Buys must reconcile to merchandise planning to ensure all stakeholders are working towards the same goal.
  • daVinci Buying streamlines the entire merchandising team’s buying activities and shortens merchandise procurement lead time.

“We have a solution in place that we’re confident will both enable and support our massive growth over the coming years.”

— Katie Gottilieb, Head of internal systems and process, Superbalist

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All of your buying information in one place

Track all your purchasing information in a single connected buy sheet.

Assortment Analytics

Provide real-time insights not possible with existing BI tools.

Calculation Engine

Rolls every buy change up instantly so decisions can be made off accurate and timely information.

Multiple User Roles

Buyers, planners, allocators and managers can all access daVinci simultaneously.

Seasonal Buy Management

Plan and track buys pre-season and in-season (open-to-buy) for maximum flexibility.

Management Reporting

Provides enterprise visibility up, down product hierarchies.

Take control over purchase orders

Initiate purchase orders from within your buy sheet.

Eliminate Data Entry

Commit buys with a single click and send information directly to your PO system without re-keying.

Integrate with Any PO System

daVinci works with your existing PO system.

Smart Validation

Validate data and check for the necessary approvals before submitting a PO.

Additional Modules

Do more with less with DaVinci

daVinci’s data importer, size profile and vendor catalog all support daVinci’s mission of giving the merchant the tools they need to perform their job with efficiency.

Size Profiling

The final frontier in proper assortment is size. The Size Profiling Application from daVinci provides weekly real time access to our Client’s size curve calculations to determine to proper size allocation.

Vendor Catalog

Ability to import a vendor’s complete line sheet to your plan so the user can then select styles and colors they would like to bring into your plan or map to placeholder.

Buy Importer

Automates the creations of styles, colors, sizes and attributes into a buy plan. Made for optimistic buying retailers-vendor surplus or buy returns when a major department store has backed out of an order.

Mobile Apps

Bring the power of daVinci anywhere. We offer two apps, Analytics and Buyer Market Ideas, to enhance your productivity.

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Total visibility, anytime you want it

Leverage modern tech and best practices honed for over two decades.

Automatic Roll-up

Totals update with every new entry, so everyone always has up-to-date information.

Visual Reports

Get on-demand reports like storyboards and product mix analysis.

Buy Reconciliation

Ensure adherence to merchandise financial plans.

Connect to your Strategic Financial Roadmap

Compliment your daVinci Buying solution with daVinci Merchandise Financial Planning to ensure the synchronicity of buy execution with the financial roadmap and constant visibility to your Open-to-Buy (OTB).

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