How To Plan Your Inventory Buy When Production Lead Times Are Three Months Or More A few DTC (fashion) Decoded readers have written to me, asking for advice on how to handle inventory planning for long lead times. That’s the topic I’m going to cover today: how to maximize your return on inventory investment when your brand’s end-to-end product development process takes at least six months, and it takes three to six months to reorder an established style. This isn’t a unique situation. When I...