General merchandise and discount retailers

Optimized operations for general merchandise and discount retailers

Managing various assortments and accommodating shifting consumer buyer patterns can create complications throughout your planning processes. RELEX helps unify your plans and reduce waste to exceed your customers’ expectations – from omnichannel to brick-and-mortar.

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Manage assortments for improved inventory availability and increased operational efficiency

RELEX helps enhance your core retail planning processes and supply chain capabilities with an AI-driven platform to drive sales and improve results.

Unbalanced and complex assortment planning

Different assortments, including slow movers, new product introductions, fresh foods, and seasonal products can have long lead times and fluctuating demand. These assortments introduce a high level of complexity throughout the end-to-end supply chain. 

Organizational silos and misaligned operations 

Misaligned merchandising, supply chain, and operations result in lost sales and diminished profits. HQ teams working in siloed environments with no collaboration between merchandising, operations, and supply teams creating increased costs. 

Need for store-specific space and staff planning 

Your merchandising strategy may not be aligned and using the latest supply chain data. This can lead to inconsistent customer experiences and inefficient staffing schedules.  

Pressure on efficiency

Consumers expect a streamlined shopping experience, regardless of online or in-store, with low prices and fast delivery times, despite elevated transportation and labor costs. 

Drive accuracy with unified planning and execution

RELEX helps general merchandise & discount retailers effectively manage their broad assortments, secure high availability levels for all product categories while gaining efficiency throughout their operations with unified, automated and efficient retail planning.

Create accurate demand forecasts to optimize stock levels

Employ machine learning to identify demand patterns and opportunities for improved pricing and promotions, with visibility into holidays and local events. Ensure high availability and automate replenishment and markdowns across categories.

Align operations to improve end-to-end efficiencies

The RELEX platform enables cross-functional coordination with your internal teams, suppliers, and retail stores to improve collaboration, streamline processes, and reduce costs.

Optimize your workforce and automate shift planning

Gain transparency throughout your supply chain to optimize your workforce, reduce labor costs, and improve sales. Automatically create workforce schedules that align with delivery days to optimize staffing and drive significant cost savings.

Impressive results from discount retailers like you 

“Stores feel as though they have an extra employee handling ordering, and that employee is RELEX.”

Marco Pair
Supply Chain Manager at Europris

Case study

Case study: Europris

Norway’s largest discount variety retailer achieved over 17% cut in DC inventory in just 18 weeks.

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AI-enabled planning ensures availability for all categories and channels

Omar Louzir, RELEX Lead Business Consultant, shares some of the ways that RELEX is helping these retailers leverage AI-enabled technology to build a better supply chain that drives efficiency, reduces costs, and improves customer service and margins.

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eBook: Optimize your planning process for ease and accuracy

Discount and general merchandise retailers face unique challenges that manual planning processes can’t address. The vast array of products carried by retailers in this sector requires a more sophisticated approach to support inventory efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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Customer video: Family Dollar

In this video, Kim Ramsey, VP of Inventory Management for Family Dollar shares why they chose RELEX to integrate their forecasting and replenishment.

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