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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.
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.
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.
Online retailers need to make smart, data-based decisions on what to stock and what not, to manage their large catalogues of items available.
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.
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.
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.
Using AI to optimize main replenishment days enables more efficient goods handling and store operations in retail distribution.
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.
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.
This best practice guide highlights the key approaches for increasing responsiveness and efficiency in grocery retail supply chains.
Halloween has become a major opportunity for retailers to grow their business. In the US alone, the total spending for Halloween is expected to reach $9 billion this year.
Choosing a supply chain planning system isn’t easy. That's why we've listed some things to consider if you’re going to transform your supply chain planning.
The biggest difference in automating replenishment of fresh products in comparison to center-store products is the increased importance of planning accuracy.
We surveyed leading North American grocers and compiled the key results in a study titled 'Growing and Sustaining Competitive Advantage in Grocery Retail'.
A supply chain is always a work in progress. You can optimize it so it’s running as close to perfect as possible and then circumstances change.
The efficiency of a business’s store replenishment operation has a major impact on profitability. Yet, it's often overshadowed by higher profile activities such as buying, merchandising and marketing.
The wide State of the Retail Supply Chain study conducted in 2017 by Martec International indicates that, in many areas, UK and Irish retailers are ahead of their European counterparts.
Sales promotion of one product impacts not only the sales of that product, but also products not in promotion.