Meat, poultry, and seafood producers

Meat, poultry, and seafood producers need to create day-to-day forecasts that accurately reflect a variety of demand drivers, from seasonal and promotional swings to channel-specific demand. Failure to plan accurately risks losing sales to poor product availability when forecasts run low, or losing margin to overproduction, discount sales and waste when forecasts run high.

Meat, poultry, and seafood can’t sit in a holding pattern: once an animal is processed, a bird is ready, or a catch comes in, it must move within days. Producers need supply and demand running on the same clock, not one catching up to the other.

Demand, purchasing, production, and distribution teams too often run on separate plans and spreadsheets instead of one shared view of demand and supply. Without an end-to-end plan connecting every function, gaps between planning and execution compound instead of closing. Without scenario planning, teams can’t test a yield, supply, or demand change before it reaches the plant floor.

Carcass, bird, and catch balancing is about matching supply with demand and making decisions regarding yield: which cuts to use, what can be downgraded, and which cut plans, out of thousands available, will deliver optimal profit and customer service. For purely fresh producers, minimizing what is frozen is key.

Outdated and disconnected manual planning processes in the purchasing, production, and distribution teams create constant gaps between planning and execution, resulting in less-than-optimal business outcomes.

RELEX senses true demand and supply quality from retail POS, promotions, channel trends, and weather, then aligns production and cut plans so the plant floor matches profit every day.

RELEX plans from carcass, bird, or catch to every cut and by-product, using optimization to find the mix that maximizes total yield value and flags surplus early.

Shelf life, storage, and channel data are built into the plan, so RELEX shows where surplus will appear and uses promotions to sell more fresh instead of freezing it.

ERP systems record transactions and execute plans, but they can’t weigh thousands of cut, grade, and channel options against fresh supply. RELEX adds the optimization layer, so every plan reflects what’s most profitable for each animal.

One shared plan replaces spreadsheet reconciliation across planning, sales, and finance, letting teams re-optimize scenarios in minutes as supply or demand shifts. RELEX adds the optimization your ERP wasn’t built to deliver.