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.
Fresh inventory software
Minimize spoilage and maximize your sales
Improve the sustainability of your fresh retail supply chain by cutting food waste while reaping the benefits of maximized freshness, higher sales, and minimized markdowns for your perishable items.
Slash spoilage, reduce waste and maximize sustainability with accurate fresh replenishment
10-40%
reduction in food waste
10%
increase in product availability
85%
reduction in stockouts
Increase sales and reduce costs through higher levels of automation
Tackle the unique challenges perishable items bring with AI-driven fresh optimization powered by ultra-granular demand forecasting and responsive replenishment.
Key features
Ensure fresh product availability and quality
RELEX Mobile Pro
Empower your stores to optimize their fresh forecasting and replenishment operations with RELEX Mobile Pro. Our mobile app focuses on managing the complexities of fresh – improving store efficiency, maximizing sales and profitability while also minimizing waste and spoilage.
Built on the RELEX fresh management knowledge base, RELEX Mobile Pro supports fresh store operators and center store workers, all on one app.
Benefits
Increase demand forecasting accuracy for better business results
Perishable items present unique challenges. Tackle them with AI-driven fresh optimization powered by ultra-granular demand forecasting and responsive replenishment. Accurately predict demand to ensure the right stock, resources, and capacity are available to maximize sales and customer satisfaction at low cost.
Reduce spoilage and provide fresher offerings
RELEX fresh optimization helps streamline replenishment of perishable product categories resulting in reduced spoilage and inventory levels. RELEX increases sales through improved shelf availability while providing fresher offerings for customers.
Reduce deployment time and create business value with RELEX
RELEX fresh optimization helps reduce operational costs through higher levels of automation and intelligent insights. RELEX supports your unique business needs with its no-code configuration, reducing the amount of time needed to deploy while also providing quick time to value.
Increase efficiency with RELEX
RELEX fresh optimization allows you to access accurate recommendations and insights via a single intuitive interface, allowing workers more time to provide value-added tasks. Increase efficiency, reduce waste, and replenish all fresh product categories at scale.
Reduce markdowns and food waste
Optimize end-to-end inventory management for your perishable products. Order and allocate responsively using accurate shelf-life information, granular forecasts, and near real-time data from your supply chain.
Leverage your planners’ expertise
Equip your planners with a system that delivers actionable analytics, autonomously identifies exceptions, and surfaces their root causes, allowing your team to focus on the issues worth their attention.
Staying competitive in food retail: Best practices for fresh management
Successful fresh management can have a positive influence on sales, waste reduction initiatives, and customer satisfaction. Yet there are multiple challenges with short-shelf life products, including spoilage, the need to meet minimum fill requirements while avoiding overstock, and a constant variability in demand due to external factors.
Resources you might be interested in
We’ve accumulated a wealth of supply chain & retail expertise from our 1,500+ planning specialists.
Case study: Oda
With RELEX, the largest Norwegian online fresh food retailer Oda has seen a 49% reduction in spoilage value and a 25% increase in inventory turnover.
Case study: Flink
Founded in late 2020, Flink, a Berlin-based quick commerce startup, is shaking-up grocery delivery through their Flink app, offering rapid e-bike courier services.
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