Fastplan

Bottom-up planning lives in spreadsheets for a reason: speed and freedom. The dedicated tools that try to replace them tend to be slow, modal, click-heavy, and built around month-long cycles instead of the actual rhythm of a buying meeting.

Fastplan is our answer. It is a focused planning surface tuned for the speed-of-thought work a buyer does when they are laying in option counts, setting a buy by store group, or working a sister-category template into a fresh season. The maths is real, the OTB is live, and the keystrokes are the same ones you would use in a spreadsheet.

Every common action is a key away. Bulk edit a column, smart-fill from a pattern, write row-level formulas, pin columns to keep your eye on the OTB while you work. A 5,000-row plan should feel like a 50-row one, and Fastplan is engineered around that constraint from the data layer up.

Open-to-buy is the number that matters, and it should never be stale. In Fastplan, OTB reflows the moment a planner changes a cell. There is no save step, no recompute step, no "the dashboard is updating" pause. The number is always the truth.

Buyers, planners and finance work the same plan in real time, with comments, locks and a full audit trail replacing the email-the-spreadsheet ritual. Templated kick-off lets a team start a season from last year, a sister category, or a supplier proposal, and the maths handles the lift so the team can focus on the merchandise.

Fastplan is in active development. The core grid, OTB engine and template library are wired up; we are working on the collaboration layer and the production import pipeline. If your team is forcing a bottom-up plan into a spreadsheet today, we would like to talk.