RELEX and Legion Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver First-Class ROI for Retailers
RELEX Solutions and Legion Technologies announced a strategic partnership on January 11, 2023, aimed at integrating supply chain planning and workforce management technologies to provide retailers with more accurate demand forecasting, optimized scheduling, and real-time data sharing, thereby improving overall operational efficiency and return on investment. The two companies will showcase the results of their collaboration at NRF 2023.
Palo Alto, California — RELEX Solutions, a provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions, and Legion Technologies, an innovator in workforce management (WFM), announced a strategic partnership on January 11, 2023, aimed at optimizing their combined solutions to help retailers achieve greater efficiency in supply chain and store operations.
Both Legion and RELEX are known for innovation in retail, leveraging data, intelligent process automation, and cutting-edge technology to improve efficiency, control costs, and create exceptional experiences for employees and customers. Through this partnership, the two companies will offer a modern, flexible, and adaptable software solution that empowers planning and workforce management teams. Key data will be shared in real time between their products, creating a powerful integrated software that improves demand forecasting and replenishment processes, enabling retailers to plan more effectively while transforming store labor operations and the hourly employee experience.
"We believe this partnership with RELEX will deliver unprecedented value to retailers," said Sanish Mondkar, founder and CEO of Legion Technologies. "With this integrated solution, retailers can more accurately forecast future demand across supply chain and store operations, while improving store execution through automated, intelligent, and employee-centric modern workforce management. Additionally, hourly store employees will gain gig-like scheduling flexibility, modern communication tools, and instant access to earned wages."
"We are excited to announce our partnership with Legion, as today's market demands new agility from employers," said Mikko Kärkkäinen, co-founder and group CEO of RELEX Solutions. "By aligning scheduling with forecasted workloads for store and distribution center teams, employers can maximize performance and reduce labor costs by eliminating unnecessary overtime and non-productive hours, while respecting local labor regulations and employee preferences. Furthermore, by automating tasks, offering self-scheduling, instant pay, and other productivity incentives, employers can reduce employee burnout and set their teams up for success."
By combining RELEX's highly accurate demand and workload forecasting with Legion's workforce management solution, customers will be able to achieve better planning outcomes through more precise automated forecasting, optimized labor budgets and scheduling, and enhanced planning across all customer touchpoints and channels. Additionally, supply chain and replenishment teams will be able to:
- Increase sales when employees with the right skills are in the store at the right time to replenish stock and serve customers, maximizing efficiency across all channels through unified retail planning.
- Reduce waste by identifying and eliminating hidden costs arising from payroll errors, compliance issues, or lost productivity. The platform optimizes employee planning to achieve business goals, enabling teams to quickly replace absent employees, reduce turnover, and streamline communication with frontline workers.
Store operations teams will be able to simultaneously maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement. This is achieved through optimized scheduling that matches business needs with employee skills and preferences, compliant time and attendance management, and giving employees gig-like scheduling flexibility and control, modern self-service tools, and instant access to earned wages. Legion and RELEX will present the benefits of their partnership at NRF 2023. Presentations will take place on Monday, January 16, and Tuesday, January 17, at 11:00 a.m. at the RELEX booth (#4856). For more information, visit legion.co and relexsolutions.com.
About Legion Technologies
Legion Technologies provides the industry's most innovative workforce management platform, enabling enterprises to simultaneously maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement. The Legion WFM platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric, and has been proven to deliver a 13x return on investment through scheduling optimization, reduced turnover, and increased productivity and operational efficiency. Legion delivers cutting-edge technology with an easy-to-use platform and a mobile app employees love. Legion is backed by investors including Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. through its Inc. 5000 and Deloitte 500 rankings in 2022. For more information, visit https://legion.co and follow us on LinkedIn.
About RELEX Solutions
RELEX Solutions helps retailers and consumer brands drive profitable growth across all sales and distribution channels by maximizing customer satisfaction and minimizing operating costs. Our market-leading unified supply chain and retail planning platform helps retailers and consumer goods companies coordinate and optimize demand, merchandising, supply chain, and operations planning across the end-to-end value chain. We deliver record-high product availability, increased sales, improved sustainability, and the best return on investment in inventory, space, labor, and capacity. Leading brands such as Dollar Tree and Family Dollar, Stokke, Rite Aid, Sprouts Farmers Market, AutoZone, and PetSmart trust RELEX to optimize their supply chain and retail planning. For more information, visit relexsolutions.com.
