Phantom inventory haunts retailers. The inability to trust when an inventory system claims products are on shelves or in stock is enough to frighten any profit-minded retailer. Scarier still: phantom inventory is so hard to detect that retailers may never be able to identify how much money the issue costs them in the long run.
DIY retail can be extremely challenging–from low margins to the scale and complexity of the DIY assortment. Luckily, the right combination of technology and approach can help retailers address these challenges effectively.
Find out how RELEX helps grocery retailers manage fresh produce, avoiding waste, boosting sales, and guaranteeing freshness.
Promotional pricing is challenging, but with the right strategy and tools, businesses can unlock profitability.
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.
Using AI to optimize main replenishment days enables more efficient goods handling and store operations in retail distribution.
Perhaps no one stands to benefit more from collaboration than wholesalers, who serve as both customers and suppliers in their roles as supply chain intermediaries. So why do so many wholesalers struggle to collaborate effectively?
Managing inventory levels that meet demand efficiently requires an honest assessment of existing roadblocks, clearly defined goals, and a carefully considered roadmap.
In this blog, our expert discusses three typical promotion challenges and provides some tips to help you avoid promotion pitfalls and avoid risking already tight margins.
We spoke with Product Lead and resident RELEX F&R guru Stuart Douglas about how capacity challenges negatively impact retail companies — and how they can overcome them with the right planning solution.
This blog discusses how having a promotional planning solution can help retailers maximize profit, effectively evaluate promotion campaigns, and reduce errors in the promotion planning process.
Discover how channel forecasts improve wholesale forecasting accuracy to make for happier customers and better profit margins.
In this article, we will focus on assortment rationalization: what it is about, its benefits, and why every retailer should have a solid process for it.
Retailers that deal with fresh products can leverage benefits from unifying their central supply chain planning and in-field store operations to improve management of their fresh inventory.
There are few challenges in retail tougher than managing grocery retail supply chains; optimizing a broad inventory that includes fresh and short shelf-life products is not easy.
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.
As global markets face unprecedented challenges, ranging from inflationary pressures to logistical bottlenecks, the need for greater supply chain control has become vital across industries.
Missed our exclusive event on the future of consumer goods supply chain planning? No worries, we can catch you up on some of the key insights from the presentation.
All is not lost for grocery retailers struggling to balance the sometimes-competing priorities of fresher foods, happier customers, and healthier bottom lines.
Retailers are increasingly turning to innovative workload management solutions that go beyond traditional sales-driven labor planning to ensure seamless operations.
The unique characteristics of managing fresh grocery retail have made it a hidden treasure amid a sea of AI and machine learning technologies.
During my almost seven years working with space planning, I’ve faced almost every question there is to ask around the topic. One, however, seems to come up constantly “Can we use forecast data when making the planograms?”
In 2023, RELEX’s solutions drove tangible impact by increasing visibility for better decisions.
In the following Q&A, Jeff Bulger shares his insights and experiences on the power of pricing and how choosing the right pricing solution can help retailers stay ahead of the competition.