At RELEX, we’ve accumulated a great deal of retail expertise from among the ranks of our more than 800 retail planning specialists. Pick our brains by diving into the resources our experts have authored — from blogs and whitepapers to guides, reports, and videos.
This best practice guide highlights the key approaches for increasing responsiveness and efficiency in grocery retail supply chains.
Supply Chain Transformation: The Complete Guide leads you through the process of choosing and implementing the right supply chain planning system.
RELEX’s best practices for managing demand for essential and nonessential items within a single environment during these unusual demand patterns.
Winsight Grocery Buisness interviewed our co-founder Michael about how a lean supply chain can recover from sudden demand increases.
Retailers must maintain transparent, proactive relationships with their suppliers if they hope to maintain availability during coronavirus demand increases.
No system, no matter how advanced, can accurately automate calculations when there’s no historical precedent on which to model forecasting.
Fresh items attract customers, yet grocers lose over 1,5 percent of revenue to food waste. Waste reduction is not just about sustainability, but it also contributes to a healthier balance sheet.
This study outlines how our four customers have led the charge toward environmentally responsible business practices while significantly improving both operations and cost-effectiveness.
Workforce optimization goes beyond just management, and uses both data and automation to improve scheduling.
Ultra-fresh products like fruits and vegetables have some unique challenges, but they also comprise one of the largest revenue streams and opportunity centers.
After the 2019 holiday season, it's time to look what went right and what didn't, and take these learnings for the next season.
We predicted what could be the retail trends for 2020: increased focus on sustainability, AI growing ubiquitous, turbulence in the retail landscape, and more.
Our Michael reminisces the year 2019 with its unprecedented achievements, fun moments and new additions to our global RELEX family.
RELEX and EnsembleIQ surveyed leading North American grocers to understand how they view today’s competitive grocery market.
RELEX and EnsembleIQ surveyed leading North American grocers to understand how they view today’s grocery market and what key initiatives they are planning to improve their retail and supply chain planning operations.
Online retailers need to make smart, data-based decisions on what to stock and what not, to manage their large catalogues of items available.
Rather than shifting tasks to customers, AI is put to best use by automating repetitive tasks to free up retail personnel for higher-value and customer-centric work.
Retail is about people: what we need, what we want, and where and how we live. That’s why significant innovations always have and always will mirror demographic trends, such as rapid urbanization.
In this blog, our customer Stockmann’s Head of HR Services and Digitalization and Shift Planners Team Lead discuss the changing dynamics in retail workforce management.
Where there is challenge, there is always opportunity. All grocers with waste reduction goals should take a serious look at the benefits of an integrated supply chain.
In the second part of this blog series, we discuss how retailers can effectively address one of the major change agents in the age of Living Retail: a power shift toward the consumer.
Living Retail is a state of constant flux, and retailers must plan for every possible future they might encounter — not just the static vision of the future they’re predicting today.
We interviewed a few CIOs to see what they thought were the corner stones of new system implementations and wrote down the recurring themes concerning retail planning.
Stochastic planning has been presented as a result for tackling uncertainty in supply chains. Our whitepaper explains what it is and when and how to use it.
Traditional retailers can recapture sales from digital players who have significantly lower service levels by ensuring great availability in stores.
Markdowns cost retailers billions, yet they are essential in the world of retail. To make most of it, retailers need to maximize margin and avoid excess stock.