Open To Buy Skills Tests

Open To Buy — Beginner

Foundations of retail Open-to-Buy: planned sales, inventory targets, receipts planning, on-order commitments, category budgets, merchandising calendars, and stock-to-sales basics. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

Open To Buy — Intermediate

Rolling OTB, retail-to-cost planning, weeks-of-supply targets, lead-time receipt phasing, reforecast triggers, markdown and shrink in plans, in-transit inventory, negative OTB, and class-to-SKU allocation. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.

Open To Buy — Advanced

Multi-door OTB, contingency reserves, ladder and scenario planning, GMROI-linked receipts, import versus domestic phasing, fast-fashion cadence, ERP reconciliation, MOQ and pre-pack constraints, phantom inventory, and governance. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items.