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.
Ultra-fresh products like fruits and vegetables have some unique challenges, but they also comprise one of the largest revenue streams and opportunity centers.
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.
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.
16 % of large US grocery retailers still base their distribution center forecasts on historical data on outbound deliveries from these distribution centers. This is akin to driving a car while looking into the rearview...
Accurate forecasting is at the core of increased operational efficiency as it is key to accurately match resources, such as stock and personnel, with demand.
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...
Predicting weather is not easy and rapid changes in weather can cause consumers to suddenly shop or cease to shop for specific products, which can quickly become costly for a retailer.
Sales promotion of one product impacts not only the sales of that product, but also products not in promotion.
“What would you consider a good level of forecast accuracy in our business?” is probably the single most frequent question we get from customers, consultants and other business experts alike.
Weather is a source of significant fluctuations in consumer demand. In this whitepaper, we’ll look at how retailers can optimally prepare for them.
Moving to omni-channel grocery retail adds new aspects to demand forecasting that need to be considered, e.g. how to forecast per sales and fulfillment channel, how to react to out-of-stocks, and how to optimize operations.
This complete guide explains the facets of forecasting and why forecast accuracy is a good servant but a poor master.
Moving from a traditional category-based model to using causal methods increases promotion forecasting accuracy and supports promotion planning.
RELEX combines time-series, regression and machine learning forecasts to achieve great levels of accuracy in diverse situations.
Over the years almost every single retail initiative has had forecasting and replenishment at its core.
Ask managers what causes them the most problems in the consumer product supply chain – and the most common answer you’ll get is “promotion management”.
People are fickle, not wholly rational and make different decisions at different times. However, people are predictable in most of their buying decisions.
How does one create meaningful forecasts for new products when there is no sales history at all?
Demand forecasting for promotions is a major challenge for retailers, not least because of the impact it has on driving sales.
Forecasting future demand successfully is difficult. Find out from our blog what the big retailers listed as their hardest challenges.
Manual forecasting generally produces results whose accuracy is, rather questionable. However it can be of benefit in certain situations.
Does your company do ‘demand forecasting’ or ‘demand planning’? Both are needed in supply chain management, but what are their differences?
In this whitepaper we take a look at how to optimize for the holiday season and draw lessons for year-round seasonal management.