Björn Weber

As part of its modernisation plan Galeria 2.0, the struggling department stores' group Galeria overhauled its e-commerce as well as its omnichannel processes and technology from the ground up last year. With support of the retail technology specialists from CAS AG, Galeria was able to implement the SAP module Omnichannel Article Availability and Sourcing (SAP OAA) for omnichannel article availability…

Fully autonomous drones from Swiss manufacturer Verity take the stock of Ikea stores and central warehouses outside their opening hours. In 2020, Europe's leading furniture retailer had successfully carried out a pilot project in both the central warehouse and the furniture store in Spreitenbach, Switzerland. There are now 100 drones in use at 16 locations in Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany,…

Estonian grocery market leader Coop Estonia is also set to optimise its sales promotions with Relex. Relex acquired Swedish promotion planning specialist Formulate in May last year, whose clients include Sweden's Coop and the convenience arm of Norwegian retailer Reitan. Coop Estonia has already been optimising inventory at its approximately 330 distribution outlets with Relex's AI-based forecasting solution since 2019.

Markant Group has acquired a majority stake in Cologne-based product content management specialist Bayard. With its investment, the retail and services group aims to become the leading provider of product information management services for industry and retail in Europe.

Germany's largest retail organisation, Edeka Group, will optimise the orders and stocks of all its stores and distribution centres with the AI-based software platform of Relex. The decision represents a Copernican shift in the Edeka Group's IT strategy. Until now, the German retail giant has managed its inventory management systems exclusively with SAP and SAP partner solutions.

Tegut will be one of the first retailers in Europe to optimise its prices, stocks, floor space and shelf placement from a unified sales forecast. To achieve this, the Fulda-based grocery store chain, which is part of Migros Zurich, will implement Relex's AI-based solution together with Competera's price optimisation tool. For SAP, the decision is a bitter blow: for more…

Jysk will optimise the sales forecasts of its ten distribution centres in Europe with Relex. The Denmark-based furniture and home furnishings company, formerly known as Dänisches Bettenlager in Germany, plans to grow from its current 3,200 shops to 5,000.

Coppenrath & Wiese will move its GDSN data management to Bayard's Byrd platform at the turn of the year. The subsidiary of Oetker Group will provide retailers with uniform product content through the b-synced master data pool integrated in Byrd from the beginning of 2023. In the process, the manufacturer of frozen bakery products will provide retailers in both the…

In April 2022, Danone operationally bundled four previously independent business units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in a move to further boost efficiency in these markets. One important area in which the group was able to increase its efficiency very quickly through consolidation, was the consistent supply of retailers with product content from the different divisions. This was made possible…

Aldi Süd has started to equip its stores in Germany with Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs). Contrary to expectations, the discount market operator is not using labels specially developed for its requirements, but the standard slim labels of the Nebular series from Chinese manufacturer Hanshow.