Buyer's Toolbox vs RELEX Solutions

Buyer’s Toolbox is retail merchandise planning software for teams handling financial plans, open-to-buy management, forecasting, and reporting. Its Advanced Planning features include merchandise financial planning, sales forecasts, scenario planning, seasonal and assortment planning, and multi-currency support. Reports cover variance, open-to-buy, sell-through, and scenario comparisons, with drill-downs across business levels. ERP connections can import sales, stock, receipts, merchandise hierarchy, locations, and custom data, then return forecasts, open-to-buy information, reports, KPIs, and scenario outputs. The software supports cloud-hosted and on-premise deployment, including locally hosted and Azure environments. Access controls include roles and permissions, isolated and sandbox environments, and plans stored in a SQL database with a documented schema. The maker offers a no-cost proof of concept using a prospective customer's data, typically run within one or two weeks. Advanced Planning starts from $995/mo (annual), with an initial two-quarter engagement followed by quarter-to-quarter terms. Pricing for extensions such as Basic Allocation & Replenishment and Data Science is handled in a planning consultation.

RELEX Solutions is a planning platform for retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers, covering forecasting, inventory, pricing, merchandising, production, and supply-chain planning. Its solution areas include demand and manufacturing planning, replenishment, fresh and retail operations, space and assortment, pricing and promotions, diagnostics, collaboration, and strategic planning. The platform connects with ERP, POS, WMS, HR, and MDM systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Visma, IFS, AS400, Databricks, and Snowflake. Data can move through batch API via Azure Blob Storage or SFTP, or through the RELEX Data API for near-real-time exchange. The SAP Connector supports S/4HANA on-premises, S/4HANA private cloud (RISE), and ECC 6.0 EHP8, but not S/4 public cloud (GROW) or earlier ECC versions. RELEX says its predictive technology has been refined across 600+ enterprise implementations and serves 600+ customers globally. Pricing is on request.