Musti Group extends RELEX Solutions tie-up to strengthen pet care specialist’s end-to-end supply chain
Nordic pet care specialist, Musti Group, is deepening its collaboration with RELEX Solutions.
A long-standing user of RELEX forecasting and replenishment capabilities, it is now implementing the firm’s space and assortment, workload forecasting, and capacity optimisation capabilities to boost its retail planning and supply chain planning processes.
Prior to adopting these capabilities, Musti utilised manual processes for space planning. Recognising the necessity to develop localised assortments and allocate space effectively to enhance operational efficiency, it acknowledged the requirement for a unified solution.
This solution integrates supply chain, space, and assortment planning from end to end, facilitating a more precise and automated approach to its integrated business operations.
Musti aims to achieve heightened operational efficiency by creating and distributing automated up-to-date planograms, facilitating efficient inventory management with direct-to-shelf deliveries.
This streamlined approach reduces backroom stock while ensuring consistent product availability on the sales floor.
The assortment planning feature ensures the right products are available in each store, based on customer demand and local preferences and enhancing sales.
Furthermore, the solution automates the creation of shopper-centric, store specific planograms, strategically optimising product placement to enhance the shopping experience and drive increased sales.
Additionally, Musti is improving operational efficiency at its central warehouse by using RELEX for capacity optimisation and workload management.
With capacity optimisation, it can efficiently manage its supply chain, resulting in cost reduction and operational stability. Simultaneously, workload forecasting in warehouse optimises resource planning, leading to higher employee satisfaction and increased efficiency.
“RELEX enables us to enhance efficiency in our retail and supply chain planning processes, delivering significant advantages already,” says Pamela Nelimarkka, COO at Musti Group.
“Their integrated solutions empower us to base decisions on data, ultimately enriching our customers’ shopping journeys. We foresee additional enhancements, including minimising surplus inventory while simultaneously boosting availability and reducing waste, thereby advancing our sustainability efforts further.”
“With extended solution portfolio, RELEX has even a more vital role in Musti Group’s enterprise architecture and will give us strong tools to make us more efficient, scalable and agile. We are also eager to continue the close co-operation with Relex team to maximise the ROI from the whole solution portfolio,” says Panu Hannula, CIO at Musti Group.
“We are honoured to support Musti in their pursuit of efficiency. We are also very thankful for Musti’s long term commitment to our unified solutions, and we eagerly anticipate further collaboration as they unlock additional benefits,” says Mikko Kärkkäinen, CEO and Co-founder at RELEX Solutions.
“Our commitment is to ensure our solutions evolve to meet their changing needs, and we look forward to contributing to their aim of an optimised, efficient supply chain.”
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