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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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27.6.2012

Norwegian multi-channel retailer Spar Kjøp implements RELEX’s solution to improve stock turnover and shelf availability

Norwegian multi-channel retailer Spar Kjøp has chosen RELEX’s solution to manage and optimise replenishment of its stores and central warehouse. The company, celebrating its 50th birthday this year, offers its customers a wide assortment, including clothing, cosmetics, as well as products for the home and garden.

Spar Kjøp had already implemented automated store replenishment using the min-max order logic available their ERP system, Dynamics AX. “Manual control of min-max parameters for a combination of tens of stores and thousands of products, proved impossible, especially since demand for our products is subject to both seasonal and regional variation,” explains Terje Nymark Olsen, IT Manager at Spar Kjøp. ”To attain better shelf availability and improved inventory turnover, we needed a software solution that would enable us to work with demand forecasts and inventory control parameters automatically optimised for each store and product,” he concludes.

Johanna Småros, Co-founder and Director of RELEX’s Scandinavian operations, is enthusiastic about the contract with Spar Kjøp: “This is a very exciting opportunity for us. The deal with Spar Kjøp is an important milestone for us and further strengthens our presence on the Norwegian market. Furthermore, Spar Kjøp faces many relevant supply chain challenges – a wide range of product categories with different demand patterns, a large amount of seasonal products, and a multi-channel sales concept – all of which present us with a great opportunity to demonstrate the flexibility and adaptability of our forecasting and replenishment solution.”

The next steps are to finalise the specification and integration work by the end of Q3 2012 and to subsequently pilot and roll-out RELEX’s forecasting and replenishment solution in synch with the implementation of Spar Kjøp’s new POS system.