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DIY & Builders Merchants

From a single washer to heavy machinery – product lines at builders merchants & hardware chains’ product lines vary radically by sales volume, price, size and weight.  Add wide variations in sales patterns and life cycle and you have a challenge.  RELEX cuts risk and boosts your bottom line with seasonal demand forecasting, flexible product classification and rule creation, allocation and delivery optimisation. Read more>>

Groceries

Grocery’s all about high volumes – transactions, products, customers, suppliers, and deliveries. Promotions and short product shelf lives simply add to a complex mix.  RELEX reduces complexity with automated replenishment, multiple demand forecast models, rolling analytics, flexible rule creation and classification, campaign management and delivery optimisation. All help large grocery businesses cut waste, boost sales and increase profits. Read more>>

Consumer Electronics

Consumer electronics retailers face challenges like short product lifecycles, multiple promotions and sales spikes. By automating replenishment for year-round, steady sellers RELEX helps you focus on key products. Good, flexible demand forecasting, product classification, campaign management and allocation radically reduces the possibility of lost sales or over-stocking. Read more >>

Fashion & Clothing

In Fashion retailing you need fingertip control of your sales data and you need it in ways unique to your business – by size and by colour. RELEX offers forecast tools to minimise over-orders, fine-tune allocation to create the right mix across stores, rolling analytics so you can spot trends NOW and respond.  Read more>>

Specialty Retail

Whatever branch of speciality retail you’re in; brewing, pharmacy, flowers, spare parts, tyres, hobbies or a hundred others, you need supply chain management that wraps round your company – not the other way round.  Flexibility has been built into RELEX systems from the get-go. However you want to classify, forecast, allocate, analyse, with RELEX you  decide. Read more>>

Home & Garden

The Home and Garden sector is highly seasonal and deals with a wide range of products from multiple suppliers.  With RELEX systems, seasonal forecasting models can be optimised for each product, allocation can be managed accurately to minimise end of season stock and reordering automated for perennial lines so you can prioritise the management of exceptions. Read more>>

Wholesale

The scale and scope of wholesale businesses make it all the more vital that your key people are free to manage.  Intelligent automation can increase shelf availability while slashing excess inventory.  Most importantly it can unchain staff from repetitive inventory control and reordering tasks so they can play a more effective role in the success of your business. Read more>>

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15.5.2012

Swedish mobile operator 3 picks RELEX’s solution for purchasing and store replenishment of mobile devices and accessories

Swedish mobile operator “3” has chosen RELEX’s solution to manage and optimise replenishment of their stores and central warehouse.

The co-operation between 3 and RELEX began with a joint pre-study. As part of the study, Helsinki-based RELEX identified several development areas within 3’s existing purchasing and replenishment processes and was also able to suggest concrete changes to processes and system support to better meet 3’s key challenges.

The contract with 3 represents another milestone for RELEX. The Finnish company is Europe’s fastest growing supply chain planning, forecasting and replenishment systems provider and is rapidly becoming established as the leader in its sector.

RELEX was able to provide a flexible and adaptable solution that met the needs of 3’s complex, multichannel operations, including sales in own retail outlets, on-line, and via resellers. As RELEX’s solution already encompassed the necessary functionality, there was no need for expensive customisation work.

“Mobile devices are typically bundled with an airtime contract. The life cycle of mobile devices is very short and their value is high,” says Fredrik Östman, 3Sweden’s Supply Chain Manager. “Therefore it’s of vital importance we ensure that the devices really are in stock when a customer visits one of our stores while, at the same time, we minimize our inventory risk.”

“We evaluated different candidates and chose RELEX. RELEX offered a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution that could be adapted to our special requirements. The alternative was building a totally customised system from scratch. During the pre-study we came to trust RELEX, finding that they had best practices built into their solution that met our requirements and smart functionality that we may not have been able to think of in the initial phase by ourselves. This fact, combined with RELEX’s impressive track record for fast implementation, their high level of expertise in supply chain optimization, and their commitment to their customers, left us confident that we made the right choice“ concludes 3Sweden’s Fredrik Östman.

The next step is to finalize the specifications and integration work before the end of Q2 2012 and then roll out the solution immediately after the summer holidays.