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We help brands confidently scale & supercharge profits with personalized forecasting, planning & inventory management.

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10/15/2026

Some of the best inventory planning happens outside the standard playbook.

Demand forecasts, open-to-buy, weeks of supply — the fundamentals work. But even the best forecast is still a guess made 6 to 18 months before it reaches a customer. That’s a long bet on what someone will want, months from now.

A few brands are getting creative to close that gap. Swipe through for one example — then get the full guide.

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10/12/2026

🎉 Celebrating SIX YEARS of Katie at Boon! 🎉

Six years already?! Time really does fly when you have someone as dedicated, thoughtful, and fun to work with as Katie Rotenberg.

With over 17 years of experience in retail — including roles at Victoria’s Secret in inventory management, store planning analytics, and learning & development — Katie brings both deep expertise and a genuine passion for helping people grow.

She’s supported many of our key apparel clients, built out internal learning and development plans, and somehow still finds time to be the driving force behind so many of our team events. If it’s fun, thoughtful, and well-organized, Katie probably had a hand in it.

We’re so grateful for Katie’s sharp insights, warm leadership, and all the laughter along the way. Cheers to many more years at Boon! 💛

10/07/2026

There’s a pattern we see again and again with the brands that land in our inbox: they got it right. Sales are climbing, customers are loyal, and by every outward measure, the business is working. But somewhere in that climb, growth outpaces the systems built to sustain it — and the instincts that got a brand off the ground aren’t quite enough to plan what comes next.

That’s exactly where a growing specialty running retailer found themselves when they came to Boon.

This challenger brand is bringing fresh energy (and fresh footwear) to the running community from two West Coast stores plus a thriving ecommerce business. Growth was real. But sales trends, current stock, and future buys were all living in different places, which made it hard to know exactly how much to spend and when — let alone plan for what’s next.

So we got to work.

First, we built a framework to understand the business as it actually stands today — digging into sales trends and taking a clear-eyed look at current inventory. From there, we’re building a tool to tackle one of retail’s trickiest equations: new season buys. Step one is wrangling future on-order data into something trackable (still very much a build in progress — good inventory tools don’t happen overnight, no matter how much we wish they did). Once that piece is dialed in, we’ll use it alongside everything else to build a real framework for preseason planning and buying.

The bonus round: their finance and accounting partners are just as invested in this project as the merchandising team, because better inventory visibility means better cash flow visibility too. Everybody wins — which, in inventory planning, is rarer than you’d think.

Growth doesn’t stall because the product stops working. It stalls when the planning behind it doesn’t scale with it — and that’s the gap Boon is built to close.

→ Curious what a planning foundation could look like for your brand? Let’s talk.

09/22/2026

🚨 Spring 2027 sounds like science fiction. It’s actually a few buying cycles away. Most brands are planning like it doesn’t exist yet.

That’s the trap. Here are the 3 questions every product brand needs to answer before spring 2027 shows up 👉 Swipe through. This one’s a gut check.

1) Do you know what’s going to sell, or are you just hoping?

“I can’t stay in stock” sounds like an inventory problem, but it’s usually a forecasting problem in disguise. And store brands aren’t the bargain backup anymore. They’re real competition sitting one shelf away.

What to do:

Pull SKU-level sell-through from your last two spring seasons.
Build demand plans by channel. Retail, DTC, and wholesale don’t behave the same.
Flag which SKUs a private label could replace tomorrow.

2) Do you have the systems to actually pull this off?

Fast-growing brands rarely get caught by “not enough inventory.” They get caught by “not enough hands to see it coming.” A planning process that worked at 50 SKUs won’t hold at 200.

What to do:

Check if your current tools and team can handle spring’s SKU count.
Flag where you’re still relying on guesswork or “we’ll figure it out.”
Decide now if you need a tool upgrade, a temp hire, or a planning partner.

3) Do you have a plan for returns, or are they eating your margin unnoticed?

Returns used to be a back-room annoyance. Now they’re a real line item: an estimated $849.9 billion a year, about 15.8% of retail sales for product brands. That’s dead stock in the making.

What to do:

Run a sell-through and aging report on what’s still sitting from last spring.
Build a real returns path: restock, discount, bundle, or liquidate.
Set clearance triggers before the season starts, not mid-panic.

💡 Bottom line: Spring 2027 feels far off until it isn’t. Answer these now, and you’ll place confident orders while everyone else is Googling “why is my forecast wrong.”

Need some support? Book a call with our team.

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09/17/2026

One inventory budget, and everything wants a piece of it.

Seasonality, size runs, and shifting demand all compete for the same open-to-buy dollars in apparel — and none of them wait their turn. A single style can already be 30+ inventory positions before the season even starts.

So how do you keep bestsellers in stock without drowning in markdowns? Turns out, there’s an actual playbook for this.

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09/08/2026

Just completed a planning audit for a haircare brand about to make one of their biggest retail moves yet — an Ulta launch.

They had a strong supply chain team and a real operational foundation. What they were missing was the tie back to finance. Inventory was being reconciled monthly, but without a sales reforecast alongside it — which meant their forward-looking numbers kept trending low. Planning work was spread across multiple spreadsheets, with manual data transfers and hard keys creating more room for error than a brand at this stage can afford.

Our audit surfaced the gaps and delivered a clear path forward: one consolidated planning file, a bottoms-up forecasting methodology built on real channel-level demand, and a monthly process that pairs inventory reconciliation with a full reforecast — so cash flow is visible to every team that needs to see it.

This is exactly the kind of engagement we love. Come in, find what’s not working, and show the team what’s possible. And when they’re ready to build — we’ve done it before, for brands just like this one.

If your planning process has a big retail moment coming and you’re not sure it’s ready, let’s talk.

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09/03/2026

Grateful doesn’t feel big enough for the trust it takes to hand over demand and inventory planning at that scale. It’s the kind of trust we don’t take lightly, and the kind of challenge we genuinely love.

Watching this team plan smarter, buy sharper, and grow with confidence is one of the best parts of what we do. Proud doesn’t quite cover it, but it’s a start.

08/27/2026

Beauty brands have a genuinely strong demand profile. Loyal customers, steady replenishment cycles, predictable velocity over time. The hard part was never the demand.

It’s the supply chain. A specialty glass component with a 10-month lead time doesn’t care how good your serum is. Neither does a 40-SKU shade range that needs to be forecasted at the variant level before you’ve sold a single unit of the new launch.

When a hero product goes out of stock, your customer doesn’t wait six weeks for your restock. She finds an alternative — and there’s no shortage of options ready to take your place.

We broke down exactly how to build a demand planning process that matches how beauty brands actually sell — supply chain complexity, SKU depth, weeks of supply benchmarks, and all.

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08/25/2026

Holiday season is landing at about the same time as it did last year, but...

The economy shoppers are walking into is feeling pretty different.

Consumer spending feels tighter, confidence shakier, and deal-hunting more aggressive than ever.

“The same playbook we ran last year” was never really a safe bet, but even more so now.

When it comes to demand and promotional planning nobody — not us, not algorithms, or analytics pros — can predict peak season with perfect accuracy. (If anyone tells you they can, run the other way.)

What we can promise is this: brands that build their demand plans and promo strategy around this economic moment, instead of copy-pasting last year’s calendar, are the ones who protect margins, customer satisfaction, and their sanity through Q4.

It’s going to take more than your software, spreadsheets or AI suggestions to do it.

It’s going to take a team who’s actually been in the trenches for it.
People who’ve planned through recessions, boom years, supply chain chaos, and everything in between — and know how to translate that experience into a plan built for this economy.

That kind of experience is what turns “we hope this works” into “we planned for this.”

Get your inventory in prime position for whatever peak season brings. Our team of experts can help.

Book a free discovery call.

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08/19/2026

“Just tell me what to order next.”

We hear a version of this almost every week, and in a lot of ways it makes sense.

When inventory feels chaotic, the order sheet feels like a smart fix.

Except the order quantity isn’t actually the problem. It’s an outcome of two things: a solid demand plan, and knowing exactly when to place that order.

Without incorporating lead time, the “right” quantity still lands wrong for your business.

Let’s start with timing, since it’s an easy piece overlook. Your reorder point has to account for your vendor’s lead time: the gap between placing the PO and actually having sellable units in hand. So the real math isn’t “how much do I need.” It’s “how much will I sell between right now and whenever this next batch shows up.” Without that step even a great demand plan can end in a stockout or excess.

The demand plan itself is the foundation for everything. This is what pulls your sales history, seasonality, channel mix, and growth goals into one usable picture. Without it, you’re not planning. You’re buying inventory on vibes.

A stockout on your best-selling SKU in peak season is expensive. A back room full of stock nobody wants is expensive too. Both usually trace back to the demand plan, compounded by inventory / receipt timing.

So if you’re working out what to order next to ‘fix’ your inventory issues, try starting further back. Build an accurate demand plan and layer in lead times so your receipt flow holds up in the real world.

If your inventory keeps catching you off guard, the fix is probably a better foundation, built with the right timing baked in.

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