Following an intensive selection process in May and June, Rijk Zwaan has selected Outperform Demand Planning to support the Sales Planning and Replenishment planning process worldwide. The project will deliver a tighter link between developments in the market and the Rijk Zwaan planning and supply operations.
Outperform signed a contract with innocent to supply and implement Outperform Planning to replace a mix of spreadsheets and in-house developed solutions. This migration will be planned and executed in close collaboration with innocent's IT/IS team. We will create a Sales and Operations Planning solution that can support the growth over the next 10 years, in geographical regions and product portfolio. Innocent already have the "one number demand plan" in their Demantra system, which Outperform Planning will use as input. We will report this demand plan in representations and aggregations to support the needs of the S&OP process, thereby maintaining Outperform Planning as the system of reference that connects the demand and supply plan. The supply side covered by Outperform includes procurement planning, raw material planning, production planning and transportation planning.
Outperform has been selected to provide a system for the planning of global seed production at Rijk Zwaan. Deciding factors were the quality of the Outperform software products, a demonstration of how these can be applied to the seed production challenge and commitment to meet the requirements in full. With this decision, Rijk Zwaan and Outperform extend their strategic collaboration.
Rijk Zwaan is amongst the top 5 vegetable breeding companies in the world and focuses fully on vegetable seeds offering a wide assortment within the sector. Continuous innovation is essential and Rijk Zwaan invests approximately 30 % of its turnover on R&D.
Sales planning at CALIDA, a long-established Swiss lingerie manufacturer, has become even more complex in recent years due to the increase in online retail. Nevertheless, the company has been able to rely on REMIRA’s TIA A3 sales planning software and successfully drive its omnichannel strategy forward. The decentralization of sales planning was a decisive step in this process.
Complete stocktaking in just one shift: Centrotherm, a company based in Brilon, Germany, known as a developer, manufacturer and distributor of gas flue systems for condensing boilers, has already relied on sample stocktaking in the past. With REMIRA, however, Centrotherm was able to reduce the counting effort even further: Their SaaS software STATCONTROL Cloud in combination with a counting app ensured greatly reduced warehouse closing times at Centrotherm.
Optimized warehouse stocks, improved product availability and a significant reduction in time-consuming tasks for employees have all been achieved thanks to the introduction of the LOGOMATE inventory management software at DURAL. After successfully implementing the program at all its international locations, DURAL is now able to ensure centralized, transparent coordination of all orders at its company headquarters in the German Westerwald region.
REMIRA is setting the course for future development of the company: On November 1, Dirk Bingler (48) will become the new CEO of the supply chain and omnichannel software expert headquartered in Dortmund. The previous CEO Stephan Unser (62) moves to the top of the REMIRA Advisory Board as Chairman, where he will support management in Germany and Italy in the further expansion of REMIRA.
Balancing demand and supply: True to this motto, Walbusch Walter Busch GmbH & Co. KG has chosen REMIRA TIA A3 Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) as their planning solution. The previous system landscape hardly met the requirements of the fashion company. In the future, the Walbusch Group wants to use TIA A3 to harmonize and ideally support the processes for the central procurement of all brands.
REMIRA is further expanding its market position in Europe with two additional acquisitions in Italy. The companies Optisoft S.r.l. and Gea Soft S.r.l. are now part of REMIRA and expand the product range with their software solutions for travel management systems, customs administration, shift planning, quality control, production planning and streamlining of business processes.
Fashion and lifestyle brand Fynch-Hatton has been relying on REMIRA for its stocktaking since spring this year - with success: stocktaking has been reduced from one week to half a day. The company from Mönchengladbach, which stands for modern casual wear in premium quality, is replacing the time-consuming full inventory from previous years with the STATCONTROL Cloud inventory sampling solution.
Easier handling in the back office and in service: The Astorga Group, manufacturer of traffic signs and vehicle license plates, relies on a combination of merchandise management, cash register and payment from software provider REMIRA. Autoschilder Hannover GmbH & Co. KG, Genthiner Autoschilder GmbH and Astorga Fritz Lange GmbH & Co. KG have now completed the changeover to REMIRA Payment at more than 75 locations.
Whether a lingerie boutique or a tie specialist - stationary retailers with few branches have a common dilemma when it comes to digitalization: the complexity and costs of modern software solutions often do not fit the company's existing time and financial budget. However, those who want to shift away from outdated applications with high maintenance costs and complicated operation can switch to a solution in the cloud. The software provider REMIRA already supports more than a dozen suppliers of lingerie and ladies' underwear with the all-in-one solution REMIRA RETAIL Cloud.
Collaboration with retailers and suppliers is extremely complex in many industries, but especially in the fashion industry. Especially with a global supply chain, it is difficult for companies to keep track of and monitor the individual production steps of suppliers and their upstream suppliers. This is the only way to identify potential risks such as supply bottlenecks, quality issues or supply chain violations early on and take appropriate countermeasures. In this blog post, we use the example of the fashion industry to explain how you can manage all these unique challenges when working with your suppliers.
Over 24,000 products in almost 330 stores: The product range of RTV EURO AGD, the Polish market leader for consumer electronics, is huge. The Polish retailer relies on REMIRA LOGOMATE for inventory management in order to reduce and simultaneously optimize the resulting planning effort.