What is price planning and why should it matter to retailers?
When a retailer’s pricing strategy is properly supported and optimized, it can help a retailer increase sales, improve margins, and gain a competitive advantage.
Reducing spoilage holistically and the importance of sustainability in supply chain
A holistic approach to sustainability throughout the supply chain allows businesses to create long-term value, waste less, and save more.
Fresh and center store inventory management: The need for a dual approach
Find out how retailers can address both fresh and center store product management needs to remain competitive in the grocery space.
How to improve customer-centricity with in-store assortment collaboration
While many retailers widely use category insight data such as product performance, area demographics, and demand patterns to produce more customer-focused assortments, they fail to leverage the knowledge of those closest to the customer – the local store staff.
How to embrace AI-powered workforce management to cope with employee turnover in retail
This article explores three significant challenges employee turnover poses and how retailers can address them effectively.
The window of freshness is vanishingly small. Fresh packaged food manufacturers must dream bigger about forecasting
Discover how fresh packaged foods manufacturers can use high-accuracy demand forecasting to achieve optimal freshness.
Unlock profitability with replenishment optimization
The efficiency of a business’s store replenishment operation has a major impact on profitability. Yet, it's often overshadowed by higher profile activities such as buying, merchandising and marketing.
How successful retail execution can optimize store efficiency
Frontline teams cope with heavy workloads, burnout, and turnover in today's workforce, making store operations optimization crucial, especially for fresh products, to alleviate constraints and improve efficiency.
Top 3 challenges for consumer electronics retailers
The growth of omnichannel retail has provided consumers with more options than ever to purchase goods. This brings new challenges for consumer electronics retailers when managing their inventory and supply chains.
Planning shelves optimally
Store-specific planograms are transforming retail shelf management. Why? They cater to each store's unique needs, ensuring products with high demand are rightly positioned.
Unified retail space optimization drives tangible value
Whereas store-specific planogramming can drive remarkable benefits like increased sales and availability and decreased waste, unified space planning builds on those benefits to deliver additional, more tangible value across the business.
Unlocking success in the grocery supply chain: the power of AI-driven demand forecasting for wholesalers and distributors
This article explores three common challenges faced by wholesalers, and how AI can help tackle challenges.
How coordinated ordering improves load optimization
Load optimization requires more than just efficient truck loading on the part of suppliers. Here’s how wholesalers and retailers can do their part with coordinated ordering.
Tailor your on-shelf inventory with store-specific planograms
A unified approach to category management combined with the right planning tool allows retailers to leverage localized demand data to automate store-specific planogramming.
3 ways planning software raises grocery wholesale margins
Discover 3 game-changing ways to improve wholesale margins using an AI-powered supply chain planning platform.
3 hurdles to super supplier collaboration — and how to clear them
Retailer and supplier collaboration is critical for an optimized supply chain. Find out how suppliers can overcome collaborative challenges.
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.
Transform consumer goods S&OP with next-level demand shaping
The blog discusses on how forecasts built using demand sensing can result in fewer lost sales, reduced waste, and increased cost savings.
Operational efficiency is the key to success
In this blog, the author delves into the key considerations for retailers and consumer goods companies to overcome the inflation crisis by optimizing their supply chain operations.
How demand sensing helps conquer FMCG supply chain chaos
This blog explores how forecasts built using demand sensing can result in fewer lost sales, reduced waste, and increased cost savings.
4 key trends and technology impacting grocery retail
RELEX CEO Mikko Kärkkäinen recently spoke with Total Retail about what he sees as the top four trends impacting grocery retail this year.
How to maximize store operational efficiency with a clever supply chain planning solution
This blog discusses how an effective supply chain planning solution can help keep relationships strong and stores efficient, stocked, and robust.
3 fundamentals to maintain control of demand in the consumer goods supply chain
While many are adding new products to their ranges that appeal to price-conscious shoppers or slimming down packaging to reduce costs, it’s important they also have 3 fundamentals in place to maintain control of demand.
2022 year in review
This blog provides a look back on the events of 2022 with perspective on what is to come in 2023 and how RELEX is well-positioned to meet the needs of retailers and CPG companies.