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 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.
We sat down with three CIOs and asked them about their RELEX implementation projects. What advice would they give to companies starting a similar project?
Running a grocery business has changed fundamentally: The days of working on intuition have passed, and the days of data analytics and frictionless retail are here.
Retail is impacted by many factors, such as weather and cannibalization, that can be taken into account with the help of machine learning.
This white paper shows how accurately forecasting for short lifecycle products is possible through intelligent statistical modeling that uses data from previous product introductions.
Using AI to optimize main replenishment days enables more efficient goods handling and store operations in retail distribution.
With AI hype going on, many forget that AI doesn't matter, but the results do. We now use pragmatic AI when describing how we use data for better decisions.
Most retailers are rich in data, but access to data does not automatically enable retailers to make better decisions faster. This is where decision science steps in.
RELEX was used to simulate the dynamic safety stock levels and their effects on inventory and service levels in MIT research.
Years ago, a store may have stocked between 7,000 and 8,000 over-the-counter SKUs. Today, retailers have to account for and optimize anywhere between 15,000 and 20,000 SKUs.
Retailers are no longer interested in major system replacements. Instead, there's a trend toward implementing in parts rather than as a whole.
Many assume that a focus on quality leads to a higher level of waste. It doesn't. In fact, waste and quality problems often share the same root cause.