Specialty industry retailers
Unified planning for specialty retailers
With unified planning, RELEX helps specialty retailers like you optimize inventory across the entire supply chain, improve omnichannel availability, and better plan capacity needs — from store space to workforce availability.
Impressive results from our customers
7%
availability improvement
8%
reduction in inventory value in like-for-like stores
16%
increase in inventory turnover
Turn specialty retail challenges into opportunities
Easily manage complexities across the specialty retail supply chain, including large and varied assortments, long-lead times, and omnichannel needs.
Large and complex assortments
Specialty retailers need to carry a broad assortment, ensuring that the right products are available at the right locations and at the right time to avoid losing sales to competitors.
Seasonality and short lifecycles
Specialty retailers typically include a large number of seasonal and short-lifecycle products in their assortment. It’s important to accurately identify products and prices for clearance to help avoid costly overstock or taking a hit to tight margins.
Long lead times and delivery uncertainty
Specialty products sourced internationally may have long lead times or delivery date uncertainty. This makes it difficult to ensure availability, particularly during seasonal peaks or in times of supplier shortfalls.
Multiple sales channels
Consumers expect an omnichannel shopping experience, which brings fulfillment complexity and challenges in maintaining availability and efficiency in each channel.
Optimize specialty retail with RELEX
Update and improve your core supply chain and retail planning processes with an adaptable, scalable, AI-driven unified solution.
Enable end-to-end visibility into your supply chain with digital twin modeling to proactively anticipate capacity bottlenecks.
Automate and optimize replenishment to proactively plan for inventory, reduce holding costs, and ensure capacity needs are met.
Balance and reserve stock at a granular level to ensure availability for both offline and online channels.
Protect margins and increase sales of excess stock by identifying seasonal or end-of-life products for clearance campaigns and setting optimal pricing.
Inspiring stories from specialty retailers
Customer video: Baby Bunting
Sarah Serle, General Manager of Merchandise, and Matt Rodda, CIO for Baby Bunting, share the challenges they faced with siloed and manual ordering processes, and the positive benefits they have seen since implementation.
Case study: Musti Group
RELEX helped the leading pet supplies retailer in the Nordics to integrate its complex and ever-changing supply chain, which is now managed by a single super-user.
Case study: Baby Bunting
Baby Bunting, Australia’s largest nursery retailer, significantly improved availability and reduced inventory value after implementing RELEX.
Case study: Suomalainen Kirjakauppa
Finland’s leading bookstore chain saw a 78% reduction on office supply out-of-stocks while inventory turnover improved 16%.
Resources you might be interested in
We’ve accumulated a wealth of supply chain & retail expertise from our 1,500+ planning specialists.
Five challenges in pet supply retail and how to tame them
Discover the five critical challenges facing pet retailers today and our recommendations for how to tame them, from managing complex assortments to navigating the omnichannel landscape.
How to reduce long lead times in inventory management
In an increasingly competitive market, companies must take a proactive approach to managing long lead times — one that preserves customer loyalty, reduces costs, and ensures availability at a time when certainty is hard to come by.
How to balance global and local sourcing for maximum profit
What’s the optimal balance between short- and long-distance procurement? Find out how to compare and combine the two worlds.
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