NRF 2021

RELEX Solutions

Atlanta,  GA 
United States
http://www.relexsolutions.com
  • Booth: 5553, MR5481, MR5580

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RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that’s built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers adapt to every future, faster.

Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform pragmatically delivers AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, eradicating silos, rigidities, and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers can leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, pricing, and promotion strategies, all within our unified platform.

Today, RELEX is a hyper-growth company with 300+ customers who love us — ask any of them for a frank and independent assessment of our team and solutions. RELEX is trusted by leading brands including Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, Sephora,  AutoZone, PetSmart, Party City, Thrive Market, and Rossmann, and has offices across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.


 Press Releases

  • Dollar Tree and Family Dollar Select RELEX for Integrated Forecasting and Replenishment

    Atlanta – October 19, 2021. Leading American discount retailer Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) will partner with RELEX Solutions to improve demand forecasting and replenishment processes across both their Dollar Tree and Family Dollar banners. Dollar Tree, Inc. will implement the RELEX solution across all of its 15,800 stores and 26 distribution centers in North America to improve collaboration between stores and central planning teams.        

    “The decision to partner with RELEX is a continuation of our journey to utilize data, analytics and automation to drive accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness throughout our supply chain, resulting in better on-shelf availability and an improved shopping experience for customers,” said Alasdair James, EVP Dollar Tree, Inc.

    “RELEX has proven to be more configurable than other solutions in its field, allowing our planners to have full visibility into, and control of, our supply chain,” said Andy Paisley, Dollar Tree CIO. “It also empowers us to innovate, try new ideas, and evolve our use of the solution over time to continuously meet changing business needs.”

    “We’re excited to play a central role in Dollar Tree and Family Dollar’s mission to grow their business while providing high service levels and quality products to their customers at affordable prices,” said Frank Lord, Chief Revenue Officer at RELEX. “RELEX has deep experience with the challenges specific to price-point retailers, and we look forward to sharing our expertise as we help them improve in-store availability while lowering inventory balances across their supply chain.”

    For more information, please contact:
    Tom Hancox
    Marketing Manager
    RELEX Solutions
    thomas.hancox@relexsolutions.com

    Kayleigh Painter
    Manager, Investor and Media Relations
    Dollar Tree, Inc
    kmpainter@dollartree.com

    About RELEX Solutions

    RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that’s built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers adapt to every future, faster.

    Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, eradicating siloes, rigidities and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, promotion, and markdown strategies, all within our unified platform.

    Today, RELEX is a hyper-growth company with 250+ customers who love us — ask any of them for a frank and independent assessment of our team and solutions. RELEX is trusted by leading brands including AutoZone, PetSmart, The Vitamin Shoppe, Big Lots, and Thrive Market, and has offices across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

    Go to relexsolutions.com for more.

    About Dollar Tree, Inc.Dollar Tree, a Fortune 200 Company, operated 15,865 stores across 48 states and five Canadian provinces as of July 31, 2021. Stores operate under the brands of Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree Canada. To learn more about the Company, visit www.DollarTree.com and www.FamilyDollar.com.


     

  • Sephora Implements AI-Based Solution from RELEX to Improve Availability Across Distribution Network

    Paris – October 21, 2021. Global beauty retail group Sephora announced today that they will partner with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, to improve their demand forecasting and automated replenishment. A world leader in luxury goods, Sephora operates more than 2,500 stores in 35 countries as well as 36 e-commerce websites.

    RELEX’s flexible, AI-driven forecasting and replenishment solution will improve Sephora’s inventory turnover and reduce the risk of obsolescence while increasing product availability for their end customers. The RELEX solution will also enable Sephora to improve their management of promotions, slow-moving products, new product introductions, and product ramp-downs.

    “We are delighted to welcome Sephora, such a globally well-known and recognizable company, amongst our customers,” said Bertrand Henry, Senior Sales Account Executive at RELEX Solutions. “We are excited to start proving how the flexibility of our AI-based solution can help Sephora master optimization, even as they continue to expand.”

    “We are honored by the trust Sephora has placed in us as the chosen partner for their journey towards globally integrated and optimized supply chain management,” says Franck Westrelin, VP Sales Southern Europe & MENA at RELEX Solutions.  “We look forward to setting out on that journey together and helping them achieve their goals.”

    For more information, please contact:
    Laurène Neuville
    Marketing Coordinator
    RELEX Solutions
    laurene.neuville@relexsolutions.com

    About RELEX Solutions

    RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that’s built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers adapt to every future, faster.

    Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, eradicating siloes, rigidities and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, promotion, and markdown strategies, all within our unified platform.

    Today, RELEX is a hyper-growth company with 250+ customers who love us — ask any of them for a frank and independent assessment of our team and solutions. RELEX is trusted by leading brands including AutoZone, PetSmart, The Vitamin Shoppe, Big Lots, and Thrive Market, and has offices across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

    Go to relexsolutions.com for more.

    About Sephora

    Sephora is a French multinational retailer of personal care and beauty products. Featuring nearly 3,000 brands, along with its own private label, Sephora Collection, Sephora offers beauty products including cosmeticsskincarebodyfragrancenail color, beauty tools, body lotions and haircare. The company was founded in Limoges in 1970 and is currently based in Paris. Sephora is owned by LVMH as of 1997. Sephora has expanded in 35 countries counting more than 2.500 stores and has widely embraced the ecommerce the omnichannel evolution. In 2010, Women's Wear Daily named Sephora the specialty retailer of the year.

    In March 2018, FastCompany named Sephora to the number 36 spot (of 50) on their list of "World’s Most Innovative Companies", citing its expanded offering of broadly diverse and inclusive product lines like Fenty Beauty.

  • Kum & Go Selects RELEX Solutions for Unified Forecasting, Replenishment, and Space Management 

    ATLANTA – Month X, 2021Kum & Goan industry-leading convenience store chain based in Iowa, will partner with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, for unified supply chain and merchandising optimization, including forecasting, replenishment, and space and floor planning. RELEX will service Kum & Go’s stores across 11 states and support the family-owned retailer’s goal of optimizing their supply chain and merchandise practices through AI-based unified demand planning and category management. 

    The retailer sought a new partner offering SaaS-based solutions with a robust roadmap that would allow for future growth. After reviewing multiple vendors, Kum & Go selected RELEX for the provider’s forward-thinking unified solution that automates both supply chain and space management processes. 

    Kum & Go will enhance their existing replenishment process through RELEX’s machine-learning-driven forecasts that factor in additional data sources, increasing order accuracy. Additionally, Kum & Go will take advantage of RELEX’s On The Go mobility solution, which drives store-level exception-based order reviewenables mobile planogram review, and allows for seamless interaction between their operations and merchandising teams. 

    Through the partnership with RELEX, Kum & Go will also expand their existing merchandising capabilities to enable easier vendor collaboration and performance-driven assortment decisions. The system will act as a force multiplier for ongoing format changes.  

    RELEX truly supports our mission to deliver a positive in-store experience for our valued customers,” says Kevin Conniff, VP Merchandise Operations, Planning and Space for Kum & Go. “This partnership not only allows us to modernize our supply chain and space planning processes but also delivers multiple benefits for our teams by bringing together merchandising and category management in a single solution. 

    We are extremely happy to partner with Kum & Go and to update and unify their critical supply chain processes,” says Carlos Victoria, SVP Sales, Americas for RELEX Solutions. “RELEX’s automated supply chain and space management solution will give Kum & Go the trustworthy insights they need to meet – and exceed – their goal of providing first-class service in all of their stores.” 

     

    Read more: www.relexsolutions.com.    

    About RELEX Solutions 

    RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that’s built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers adapt to every future, faster.  

    Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, eradicating siloes, rigidities and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, pricing and promotion strategies, all within our unified platform.  

    Today, RELEX is a hyper-growth company with 250+ customers who love us — ask any of them for a frank and independent assessment of our team and solutions. RELEX is trusted by leading brands including AutoZone, PetSmart, The Vitamin Shoppe, Big Lots, and Thrive Market, and has offices across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. 
     
    Go to relexsolutions.com for more. 

    For more information, please contact: 
    Tom Hancox 
    Marketing Manager 
    RELEX Solutions  
    thomas.hancox@relexsolutions.com 

  • Bed Bath & Beyond Advances Technology Transformation with Selection of RELEX Solutions to Modernize Inventory Management 

    UNION, N.J., March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBY) today announced another step in its $250 million technology transformation with the selection of RELEX Solutions as its inventory management technology partner. RELEX Solutions will provide technology solutions to modernize and drive efficiencies in the Company's inventory management systems that support its store network and distribution centers. The cloud-based technology platform will deliver automated forecasting, replenishment, and allocation planning to improve the Company's in-stock position and inventory turnover, enhancing the customer experience while driving sales and gross margin improvements. Scott Lindblom, Chief Technology Officer of Bed Bath & Beyond said, "We are leading with a digital-first, omni-always approach to build authority in our core markets and make it easy to feel at home. Investing in modern inventory management technologies is a critically important component of this approach. 

    We are delighted to partner with RELEX Solutions to help drive efficiencies in our business, improve our ability to respond to customer demand with agility, and enhance the experience for our customers however they choose to shop with us." "We are thrilled to partner with Bed Bath & Beyond and to support their omnichannel growth with our market-leading, machine-learning enabled forecasting and replenishment solution," says Carlos Victoria, SVP Sales, Americas for RELEX Solutions. "RELEX will enable Bed Bath & Beyond to reduce inventory across their channels and automate their supply chain processes while also improving their already impressive customer service levels."  

    Today's news follows other recent technology transformation announcements to modernize the Company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) and expand its utilization of cloud-based solutions. The Company will begin to implement technologies from RELEX Solutions in the spring of 2021 as part of its ERP rollout.  

     

    About Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. 

    Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond. Bed Bath & Beyond operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca, facevalues.com and decorist.com About RELEX Solutions RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that's built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers adapt to every future, faster. Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, eradicating siloes, rigidities and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, pricing and promotion strategies, all within our unified platform. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the Company's progress and anticipated progress towards its long-term objectives, plans with respect to potential asset sales, as well as more generally the status of its future liquidity and financial condition.  

    Many of these forward-looking statements can be identified by use of words such as may, will, expect, anticipate, approximate, estimate, assume, continue, model, project, plan, goal, and similar words and phrases, although the absence of those words does not necessarily mean that statements are not forward-looking. The Company's actual results and future financial condition may differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements as a result of many factors. Such factors include, without limitation: general economic conditions including the housing market, a challenging overall macroeconomic environment and related changes in the retailing environment; risks associated with COVID-19 and the governmental responses to it, including its impacts across the Company's businesses on demand and operations, as well as on the operations of the Company's suppliers and other business partners, and the effectiveness of the Company's actions taken in response to these risks; consumer preferences, spending habits and adoption of new technologies; demographics and other macroeconomic factors that may impact the level of spending for the types of merchandise sold by the Company; civil disturbances and terrorist acts; unusual weather patterns and natural disasters; competition from existing and potential competitors across all channels; pricing pressures; liquidity; the ability to achieve anticipated cost savings, and to not exceed anticipated costs, associated with organizational changes and investments, including the Company's strategic restructuring program; the ability to attract and retain qualified employees in all areas of the organization; the cost of labor, merchandise and other costs and expenses; potential supply chain disruption due to trade restrictions, and other factors such as natural disasters, pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, political instability, labor disturbances, product recalls, financial or operational instability of suppliers or carriers, and other items; the ability to find suitable locations at acceptable occupancy costs and other terms to support the Company's plans for new stores; the ability to establish and profitably maintain the appropriate mix of digital and physical presence in the markets it serves; the ability to assess and implement technologies in support of the Company's development of its omnichannel capabilities; the ability to effectively and timely adjust the Company's plans in the face of the rapidly changing retail and economic environment, including in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; uncertainty in financial markets; volatility in the price of the Company's common stock and its effect, and the effect of other factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on the Company's capital allocation strategy; risks associated with the ability to achieve a successful outcome for the Company's business concepts and to otherwise achieve its business strategies; the impact of intangible asset and other impairments; disruptions to the Company's information technology systems, including but not limited to security breaches of systems protecting consumer and employee information or other types of cybercrimes or cybersecurity attacks; reputational risk arising from challenges to the Company's or a third party product or service supplier's compliance with various laws, regulations or standards, including those related to labor, health, safety, privacy or the environment; reputational risk arising from third-party merchandise or service vendor performance in direct home delivery or assembly of product for customers; changes to statutory, regulatory and legal requirements, including without limitation proposed changes affecting international trade; changes to, or new, tax laws or interpretation of existing tax laws; new, or developments in existing, litigation, claims or assessments; changes to, or new, accounting standards; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; and the other factors summarized in the Company's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update its forward-looking statements. 

  • Rite Aid and RELEX Partner to Unify Space Management and Supply Chain Planning

    Atlanta, January 6, 2022 – Rite Aid, a leading retail pharmacy chain, and RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail optimization solutions, today announced an expansion of their partnership to include unified supply chain and category management. After launching RELEX’s end-to-end forecasting and replenishment solution in early 2021, Rite Aid will expand their use of RELEX to include space and floor planning, as well as space-aware replenishment for more than 2,400 stores across the country.

    By bringing together space planning, store and distribution center forecasting, and replenishment planning within a single, centralized solution, Rite Aid will automate and streamline processes while gaining end-to-end visibility into their multi-echelon supply chain.

    “Expanding our partnership with RELEX is crucial to our merchandising transformation and journey to become a destination for whole health,” said Erik Keptner, chief merchandising & marketing officer, Rite Aid. “Creating a holistic, unified approach to supply chain and category management optimization will allow us to build a foundation for customer-centric assortment, enable greater speed and efficiency, and provide better assortment visualization and communication for our field and operations teams - ultimately improving our customer experience.”

    “We are excited to expand the partnership and provide a truly unified solution to Rite Aid,” said Frank Lord, chief revenue officer at RELEX. “They are moving to a fully unified forecasting and replenishment system, coupled with the benefits of space planning.”

    “RELEX’s rich supply chain data will help enhance the customer experience by enabling accurate allocations, improved promotional forecasting, and highly localized space optimization for each product in Rite Aid’s assortment,” said Carlos Victoria, RELEX senior vice president of sales, Americas. “We’re excited to demonstrate how unifying their processes will reduce silos, increase efficiencies, and improve outcomes across their business.”

    For more information, please contact:
    Tom Hancox
    Marketing Manager, North America
    RELEX Solutions
    tom.hancox@relexsolutions.com

    Terri Hickey
    Director of Public Relations
    Rite Aid Corporation
    press@riteaid.com

    About RELEX Solutions

    RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that’s built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers adapt to every future, faster.

    Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at retail scale, eradicating siloes, rigidities and inefficiencies along the way. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits — optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, promotion, and markdown strategies, all within our unified platform.

    Today, RELEX is a hyper-growth company with 250+ customers who love us — ask any of them for a frank and independent assessment of our team and solutions. RELEX is trusted by leading brands including AutoZone, PetSmart, The Vitamin Shoppe, Big Lots, and Thrive Market, and has offices across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

    Go to relexsolutions.com for more.

    About Rite Aid Corporation

    As the trusted, everyday care connector, Rite Aid drives lower health care costs through better coordination, stronger engagement, and personalized services that help you achieve whole health for life. We provide an array of whole being health products and services for the entire family through over 2,000 retail pharmacy locations across 17 states. Through Elixir, we provide pharmacy benefits and services to millions of members nationwide. For more information, www.riteaid.com