UK sustainable household products brand Bower Collective is adopting Inventory Planner by Sage to facilitate smarter, slicker inventory planning. With access to data-driven sales forecasting, in-depth inventory data and robust, multi-levelled reporting, the team will know exactly what products to buy and when to buy them to reach growing customer demand.
London-based and launched in 2020, Bower Collective is a home product brand focused on natural, effective products delivered in a reusable packaging system. The brand’s range of sustainable products in the household and personal care categories include laundry detergent, dishwashing liquid, hand wash and body wash.
As the brand has grown significantly since its launch, with glowing national press coverage and celebrity endorsements from TV personality Davina McCall, the merchant decided to level up its customer reach and maximize growth potential by streamlining its inventory planning and purchasing processes.
Customers at Bower Collective can buy product refills and reusable dispensers, as well as create custom orders to suit their individual needs – meaning inventory for the brand heavily consists of custom bundles and kits. In opting for Inventory Planner, the brand will receive real-time inventory insights and integrated demand forecasting for all components of bundles and kits in their diverse product catalogue.
Inventory Planner’s full range of data-fuelled intelligence includes full inventory visibility, intuitive reporting, industry-leading sales forecasting capability and accurate and reliable purchasing recommendations. With Inventory Planner supporting Bower Collective’s forecasting, purchasing and reporting processes, the eco-brand can track what’s popular and make more informed purchasing decisions for their finished products and kits and bundles on a granular level, allowing the team to create a slick, optimized inventory that will maximize space in the warehouse, drive profitability and boost vital cash-flow.
The upgrade means Bower Collective can ditch its spreadsheet-based inventory calculations and instead receive integrated, accurate inventory insights across all products, channels and warehouse locations that are always up-to-date.
With this data at their fingertips, as well as intuitive reporting covering over 200 custom metrics, the team can also target which products are most profitable from their catalogue.
“At Bower Collective our focus is on delivering exceptional natural products in reusable packaging to eliminate plastic waste,” said Marcus Hill, the co-founder and CEO of Bower Collective. “In order to do this we are proud to have built an exceptional technology stack underpinning the business. We are excited to add Inventory Planner to our business to help us scale effectively.”
From now on, the London-based home product and personal care brand can continue their mission to eliminate plastic waste while delivering powerful products that really work – as well as get closer to their goal of expanding into the EU – with Inventory Planner on hand to offer the tools and insights they need to propel forward.
“Bower Collective is an impressive brand with a noble mission, and we’re delighted to assist their business journey,” said Justin Press, SVP customer success at Inventory Planner.
“With Inventory Planner, the Bower team will get the intelligent insights they need to track each component of their kit-based liquids and refills, and make smart purchasing decisions that will maximize their cash while also enhancing space in the warehouse – and this applies to any warehouses they add in future.
“When they branch out into Europe, Inventory Planner will be there to support the move. We can’t wait to see Bower Collective soar.”
