Grocery retailers
Maximize freshness, minimize spoilage
RELEX helps grocers optimize their forecasting, replenishment, promotions, space, and workforce planning across their stores and the supply chain to drive sales, increase competitiveness, and deliver the freshest products to customers in every channel.
Results from our grocery retail clients
40%
food waste reduction
99+%
availability
30%
reduction in inventory
Turn your greatest grocery challenges into opportunities
Food retailers must carefully manage a broad range of products and ever-changing market dynamics to succeed in today’s crowded market. They face multiple challenges, especially with fresh foods, including spoilage and highly manual processes.
Availability and freshness
With 41% of grocery retail sales coming from fresh departments, grocers must maintain high availability to meet customer demand while keeping fresh products at their freshest to satisfy customers. Balancing product availability, inventory cost, and spoilage is difficult, as the inventory data is often incomplete, and demand fluctuates.
Food waste and sustainability
Wasted food costs roughly twice the amount of retail sales profit, significantly impacting a retailer’s bottom line. In fact, 13% of food waste globally comes from retail. Reducing waste can also help retailers meet their sustainability targets.
Omnichannel efficiency
Consumers expect a streamlined shopping experience—regardless of channel—with low prices and fast delivery times. Grocery retailers must rethink their approach to efficiency to support customers online and in stores.
Store operations
For retailers, it’s all about finding the right balance: ensuring sufficient staff to maintain customer satisfaction and high service levels while also streamlining inventory and order processes to enhance efficiency and minimize errors.
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.
Streamline retail processes for a wide product assortment
Provide complete visibility across the entire supply chain, allowing for smooth collaboration between central planners and store operations.
RELEX leverages advanced machine-learning algorithms to provide highly accurate demand forecasts that consider influencing factors like seasonality, promotions, and local events. RELEX provides accurate order proposals for every item by leveraging advanced ML algorithms in demand forecasting and predictive inventory when balance data is poor or deficient.
RELEX has empowered 70+ grocery retailers to slash spoilage rates by 10 to 40%, leveraging advanced forecasting and machine learning-based predictive inventory technologies. This approach ensures high product availability, striking the perfect balance between minimizing waste and meeting customer demand efficiently.
RELEX ensures your products are available when and where customers want them by optimizing promotions, deliveries, and order picking.
RELEX gives store personnel clear visibility into and control over the replenishment process, improving collaboration, effectiveness, and engagement. Streamlining store workflows and ensuring product availability and freshness directly enhances the shopping experience for customers.
Impressive results from grocery retailers like you
Customer video: Coop Estonia
Oliver Rist, Coop Estonia Purchasing Director, sat down to share some insights about their partnership with RELEX and how they are increasing the profitability of their promotions and ensuring high availability for campaign products.
Case study: Nemlig.com
As Denmark’s leading online grocer, nemlig.com has experienced explosive growth in recent years. With that growth came the need for an adaptable markdown optimization system that would allow them to scale effectively into the future.
Case study: Ametller Origen Group
Ametller Origen significantly increased product availability and reduced fresh spoilage after implementing RELEX.
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.
Resources you might be interested in
We’ve accumulated a wealth of supply chain & retail expertise from our 1,500+ planning specialists.
Winning the food fight: Best practices for managing the retail grocery supply chain
This best practice guide highlights the key approaches for increasing responsiveness and efficiency in grocery retail supply chains.
7 grocery store inventory management good habits
There are few challenges in retail tougher than managing grocery retail supply chains; optimizing a broad inventory that includes fresh and short shelf-life products is not easy.
Staying competitive in grocery retail: The state of the industry
In the fourth quarter of 2022, RELEX Solutions partnered with Elastic Solutions to conduct a survey-based research study of North American retailers, including supermarkets, discount stores, convenience stores, and specialty foods.
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