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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

billion globally, and I forecast it to grow to $9.9 I will soon be publishing the 2021 base-year study with a five-year forecast through 2026. KION acquired Dematic and Egemin Automation in 2016, forming KION Supply Chain Solutions that operates under the Dematic brand. Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4

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Customer Voice: Towards Forecast-based Workforce Optimization

RELEX Solutions

Stockmann, Finland’s leading department store, has been using RELEX’s forecasting and replenishment system since 2011. That’s why in 2018, they extended the collaboration by introducing RELEX’s forecast-based workforce optimization solution. Staffing costs comprise one of the biggest cost centers in retail. Tiina Siurua.

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RELEX Shares Vision for Unified Retail Planning at its 5th Annual UK Space & Supply Chain Forum

RELEX Solutions

On 19th October, RELEX held its fifth annual UK Space & Supply Chain Forum, hosted by Ms Päivi Luostarinen, Ambassador of Finland, at the Finnish residence in Kensington Palace Gardens, London. Two customer presentations followed. Supply chain affects everything – from HR, to retail, to marketing and operations.

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Case Saarioinen: Improving Processes All the Way from Production to the Consumers

RELEX Solutions

By optimizing its planning process, its goal is to match the purchase of raw materials and production to forecasted demand from all of its customer segments: retail, wholesale, food service, and industrial customers. Factories 3 in Finland + 1 subsidiary in Estonia. Employees 1325 (2016). No of SKUs About 900 active products.

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Toy Retailer TOP-TOY Picks RELEX to Boost Availability and Automation

RELEX Solutions

The new solution will be provided by RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, with the aim to support TOP-TOY’s forecasting and replenishment across all its stores and online shops. Previously, the company relied on manually-maintained forecast and safety-stock parameters.

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Major organisational and cultural changes lie ahead for SCM

Supply Chain Movement

The real challenge lies not in tools or technology, but rather in human behaviour. The trends of increasing urbanisation and digitisation were covered extensively several times during the Logy Conference in Helsinki, Finland. By Martijn Lofvers and Marieke Lenstra. First, start with the customer and their specific needs. A third home.

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Finn-Tack implements inventory and demand management solution

Supply Chain Movement

It also has a further four warehouses in The Netherlands, North America, Russia, and in Finland. The best-of-breed product selected was Optimiza Inventory and Demand Planner, a demand planning software application designed to compile and maintain an accurate requirement forecast.