Retail sales & operations execution (S&OE): 4 foundational capabilities for managing disruptions
An effective S&OE process ensures retailers meet their sales plans without suffering from poor product availability or costly operational firefighting.
Align your demand, supply, budget, and business targets towards one common goal, maximizing overall business performance and profitability. As your operational complexity deepens, RELEX simplifies cross-functional collaboration and creates effective, adaptive responses to market changes, customer demands, and supply chain variations.
Take the next step in business planning — align your top-down strategic business planning and operational supply chain planning together on one unified platform. RELEX combines our world-class forecasting and planning granularity with high-level financial planning so sales and marketing, supply chain, and finance stakeholders can align using one set of data for collaborative planning and decision-making.
Key features
RELEX and guest panelists Boston Consulting Group explore practical examples of how (Gen) AI is already driving significant value for leading companies, transforming supply chain planning into future-ready, agile processes.
Benefits
RELEX IBP combines the granular, detailed optimization of the supply chain with financial planning and profit optimization on one unified platform, to help companies with even the most complex planning, improve business performance and profitability.
Decision making can be slow with siloed and unconnected planning across separate teams, and in different systems. RELEX enables easier collaboration by providing a unified view of demand and supply, combining a global demand plan, promotions, new products and assortment changes with supply capacities, constraints, and inventories.
RELEX has proven experience with its demand forecasting capabilities and understanding the intricacies of manufacturing and food production processes. Combine the leading forecasting and replenishment tool with RELEX production optimization capabilities to conquer all business planning needs.
Use RELEX to reduce planning silos and decision latency with the most up-to-date, accurate data. RELEX IBP provides a single source of truth for all stakeholders; one relevant data set for your teams to access, allowing consensus building, agility and collaboration across finance, sales & marketing and operations planning.
We’ve accumulated a wealth of supply chain & retail expertise from our 1,500+ planning specialists.
An effective S&OE process ensures retailers meet their sales plans without suffering from poor product availability or costly operational firefighting.
Through RELEX, Finsbury achieved enhanced responsiveness, enabling the formulation of alternative scenarios that mitigated many of the challenges faced.
This whitepaper uses common planning scenarios to explain how supply chain optimization works and why companies looking to streamline operations and maximize profits should consider switching to this technology.
We’re happy to discuss your business needs and share how our market-leading, unified platform can help you drive profitable growth across your sales and distribution channels.