Learning Series

Difference between Landed Cost, FOB Cost or Ex-Factory Cost: The Complete Guide for Retail Buyers

Landed Cost, FOB (Free On Board or Freight on Board) Cost, and Ex-Factory Cost are terms used in international trade and supply chain management to describe different aspects of the total cost of a product when it is imported or exported. These terms help businesses and organizations understand and calculate the overall cost involved in moving goods from the manufacturer to the end destination.

Learning Series

How Retailers Should Use GMROI

Retailers use Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI) to measure the efficiency and profitability of their inventory. Find out which departments benefit most from this key metric.

Product Updates

Toolio Awarded SOC 2 Type II Data Security Certification

Toolio, a merchandising platform for the next generation of retailers, achieves valuable stamp of approval for Security & Compliance

Learning Series

What are Pre-packs, Case-packs and Minimum Display Quantities?

There's no shortage of retail terminology nuances. In this post we cover pre-packs, case-packs and MDQs.

Behind the Scenes

Toolio Achieves ‘Built for NetSuite’ Status

Toolio announces the honor of achieving "Built for NetSuite" status to help organizations bring NetSuite data into Toolio to manage planning and merchandising processes end-to-end.

Retail Insights

To The Next Generation of Retailers…Say Good-Bye to Merchandise Planning Spreadsheets

Inventory is the most expensive asset for retailers, yet many still manage it in Excel, decades-old on-prem softwares or through homegrown solutions that long-ago lost priority to maintain and improve. The solution for next-gen retailers is a next-gen software, like Toolio.

Behind the Scenes

Toolio featured in CB Insights Retail Tech 100

We're proud to be featured in CB Insights Retail Tech 100: The top retail tech companies of 2022!

Behind the Scenes

Hindsight 2021

Hindsighting is the name of the game in retail. It is the practice of studying past performance, analyzing the top performers and the flops, and taking lessons on how to adapt plans in order to effectively reforecast for the future. Taking a cue from our favorite discipline of retail science, we would like to reflect on the past year at Toolio.

Learning Series

How to Pick Merchandise Planning Attributes

For top down planning, your organization needs to determine the attributes to use. Given the high number of attributes that you will already be using for slicing and dicing reports, figuring out which attributes to use for top down planning can be a challenge. This post covers quick guidelines on how to figure out which planning attributes to pick for your business.