Resources
At RELEX, we’ve accumulated a great deal of retail expertise from among the ranks of our more than 1000 retail planning specialists. Pick our brains by diving into the resources our experts have authored — from blogs and whitepapers to guides, reports, and videos.
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Collaboration Is Key for Successful Supplier-Retailer Relationships
Through proactive, collaborative sharing of forecasts and other data, retailers and suppliers can align their business objectives, provide visibility into future needs, and streamline end-to-end processes.
Retailers Don’t Have to Choose Between Profitability and Customer Satisfaction
To remain competitive, retailers must make all channels not just viable but profitable while offering high-quality services and features to support customer needs.
New Supply Chain Technology Enables Retailers to Reduce Food Waste
By investing in modern supply chain planning and optimization technology, grocery retailers can improve their profitability and their sustainability at the same time.
Customer Voice: How ICA Sweden Shares Order Forecasts with Suppliers to Improve Collaboration, Increase Availability, and Reduce Waste
In this customer voice blog, Andreas Persson, Head of Replenishment at ICA Sweden, discusses the excellent results the company has achieved by sharing order forecasts with suppliers.
The Right Tools for the Job: How to Build a Better DIY and Home Improvement Supply Chain
This best practice guide explores a range of supply chain challenges and opportunities specific to DIY and home improvement retailers.
Tackling Food Waste: Good for the Planet, Good for Business
According to RELEX’s research, retailers lose more than $70 million to waste each year. In this video, we share some impactful steps retailers can take to reduce food waste.
Winning the Food Fight: Best Practices for Managing Grocery Retail Supply Chains
Food retail is a challenging and turbulent market. In this video, our Co-founder Johanna explores what grocery retailers need to do to simultaneously address several major trends in the market.
Unifying Space Management & Supply Chain
Discover how to leverage AI & ML to create optimal consumer-centric planograms based on forecast sales data and product availability.
Get Smart with PetSmart
Hear from PetSmart on how they have optimized replenishment processes with fast results on one unified solution.
Unified Planning & Optimization: Centralize for Success
In this webinar, RELEX experts share best practices for centralizing supply chain operations and discuss why unified planning presents the biggest opportunity to increase operational efficiency.
Customer Video: Thrive Market
Since 2020, US-based online grocer Thrive Market has partnered with RELEX to improve their demand forecasting and automated replenishment. In this video, Nicolas Yepez discusses the company’s supply chain journey with RELEX.
Chain Drug Retailers Can Overcome Silos with ‘One Truth’
Multinational businesses must figure out a way to break down silos and give specialized teams the ability to make fast decisions that can benefit everyone.
How Quick Commerce Retailers Can Establish Market Dominance
Smart investments today will set quick commerce retailers up to weather the storm of competition and ensure they come out on top well into the future.
What’s the Key to Dark Store Profitability?
The smart use of dark stores helps make online channels profitable and respond to the increased consumer demand for speed and convenience in online shopping.
Fresh Food Replenishment Key to Improved Profitability in Grocery Retail
The biggest difference in automating replenishment of fresh products in comparison to center-store products is the increased importance of planning accuracy.
Are retailers prepared to respond to increasing supply chain complexity?
By investing in updated technology, retailers can ensure accurate inventory management across all channels and avoid unexpected out-of-stocks.
Best Practices for Long Lead Time Inventory Management
Products with long lead times present a pain point for retailers and can complicate their ability to keep inventory optimized. Here are three steps that can help retailers to better manage long-lead inventory.
Cracking the Omnichannel Code: How to Unlock Online Retail Profitability
As we look back at 2020, the rapid evolution of omnichannel is at the top of everyone’s mind. Here we discuss how retailers can optimize their supply chain for online and offline success.
Retail Forward: Turning “Adapting to Cope” into “Adapting to Win”
2020 required retailers to prioritize demand over profitability. To successfully move forward, retailers need to find a way back to efficiency and turn “coping” into “winning."
Specialty Liquor Retail: Managing the Beers, Wines, and Spirits (BWS) Category
The BWS category poses several challenges for retailers, including promotional planning, capacity management, and omnichannel replenishment, leading to poor results if not planned for carefully.
DIY Forecasting: How HELLWEG Conquered Inventory Optimization
In this webinar, we discuss what DIY supply chain challenges HELLWEG has faced and how they have managed to optimize stock levels while reducing inventory and freeing up capital.
Customer Voice: Weathering the Pandemic and Reducing Food Waste
In this Customer Voice blog, Antti Kurhela, Supply Chain Manager at Wihuri, talks about how this foodservice operator was able to rapidly adjust to changing conditions while still reducing food waste in 2020.
Thrive Market’s Supply Chain Transformation in a Time of Rapid Change and Growth
In this webinar, we discuss how thoughtful supply chain planning updates have allowed Thrive Market to successfully manage their rapidly changing requirements and navigate the challenges brought by COVID-19.
Supply Chain Transformation Journey: The Henderson Group
Paul McAlinden and Leanne Hamilton from the Henderson Group discuss their supply chain journey with RELEX. The conversation highlights how processes across the supply chain have been streamlined and optimized using automated demand forecasting.