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How Sprouts Farmers Market Transformed Store Replenishment with RELEX

Jun 4, 2026 • 3 min

Sprouts Farmers Market partnered with RELEX to unify store and DC replenishment into a single, trusted system built with input from the people who use it daily. See how guided workflows, smarter forecasting, and AI-powered automation are helping store teams reclaim time, reduce out-of-stocks, and keep fresh product moving.

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Steve Huesing: Steve Huesing, VP Inventory Management, Sprouts

Fresh is at the heart of everything Sprouts does, but delivering fresh every day across hundreds of stores is complex. It takes accurate data, simple workflows, and systems store teams can trust.

At Sprouts, we have a replenishment system in the stores that’s different than the replenishment system in the DCs. And as you can imagine, when you have two systems that are bifurcated and don’t necessarily communicate the same way, you have inconsistencies in the way we replenish. Those are the challenges we were set forth to solve going through the Sprouts Replenishment System.

Marc Koehler: Marc Koehler, Director of Product, RELEX

The Sprouts Replenishment System — or SRS — is a new approach to forecasting, ordering, and inventory management. Sprouts and RELEX have been on a journey together that started with getting the fundamentals right. The first phase was all about how we configured the RELEX tool and how the teams were utilizing it. Once we were able to go through and correct some of the things we had set up, we were able to move on to the next phase to set up automations around replenishment. After completing the DC setup and laying the foundation, we were able to move into the stores.

Kevin Manzi: Kevin Manzi, Inventory Operations Management, Sprouts

Trust is never a given — it’s always earned. I have to look at something, I have to see the results, and I want to understand the entire process from start to finish. By showing me how it works, why it came to whatever conclusion it did, it helps me buy in and understand what’s going on so that I know I can trust the output of the tool I’m using.

MK: This is not a finished product rolled out overnight. It is being tested in real stores, shaped by feedback, and improved together.

I started in the stores as a clerk and then as a manager, and never has anyone from the office or a software company come and asked us to help build a tool. This is truly a tool built from the stores up.

Rachel Sagar: Rachel Sagar, Replenishment Operations Analyst, Sprouts

Having guided workflows is really going to help our team members day-to-day. Having clear order proposals is going to help build their trust in this system, and they’re just going to gain so many hours back in the day so they can help customers and train new team members. This is really going to improve their day-to-day experience.

KM: One example that came up early as we were trying out our new guided count system: we were going through our frozen department and discovered right away that we had an item being surfaced by the system to count — and it had been removed from the schematic. In discovering that, we were able to not only rectify the schematic issue, but get that item back in stock and continue to generate sales on it, which is good for us and great for our vendor partners as well.

MK: As I reflect over the course of last year and see store team members actually using the SRS solution, it’s very rewarding to see how we’re able to make their lives much easier on a day-in, day-out basis. Simplicity, transparency, and ensuring store team members are able to adopt a solution they really like and love to use — that’s one of the core components of what we set out to do.

KM: Moving to SRS really means bringing Sprouts into the future, leveraging the potential of AI, and getting our company ahead of the competition.

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