RELEX Solutions vs Retail Directions Merchandise Planning

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.

Retail Directions Merchandise Planning is a web-based merchandise management solution for planning, buying, and managing retail ranges with live sales, gross margin, and inventory data. Retailers can budget sales and profit by time, location, and item, and plan finances by category. Purchasing covers orders for direct delivery, cross-dock, and break-bulk, plus purchase and on-demand allocations. Store replenishment algorithms and stock redistribution support balancing or consolidating inventory across stores. Markdown and promotion planning are included. SalesCube provides margin and sell-through analysis across three dimensions. Retail Directions describes one integrated database shared by its retail solutions and lists partner integrations with Adyen, Afterpay, humm, Laybuy, Slyp, and Zip. The web product is paid, with pricing on request. The company says retailers in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom use its platform.