RELEX Solutions acquired Optimity to help bolster the RELEX retail and supply chain platform with daily production planning, optimization and production scheduling capabilities.
“The consumer goods industry is incredibly dynamic and complex. Acquiring Optimity will seamlessly link downstream demand with upstream planning, so consumer goods companies can more accurately predict consumer demand, optimize production plans and schedules, adjust inventory levels, and respond quickly to market changes or unexpected disruptions,” says Mikko Kärkkäinen, co-founder and group CEO, RELEX. “This acquisition also further accelerates our vision towards an adaptive, autonomous and synchronized supply chain unifying demand and supply planning decisions in one platform to minimize all wasted cost and product. We warmly welcome the Optimity team to RELEX.”
Key takeaways:
- Optimity maintains global headquarters in Sweden and offices around the world.
- It offers a broad supply chain planning and optimization solution specifically for manufacturers and distributors, enabling customers to make optimal supply chain decisions from strategic levels to detailed production scheduling. Offerings include demand planning, production planning and scheduling, supply planning, distribution planning, inventory optimization, and S&OP.
- Optimity has 80-plus customers across the food and beverage and complex manufacturing industries.
- The acquisition brings together a highly complementary offering between the two organizations, enabling RELEX to extend and deepen its production planning and supply chain optimization capabilities, such as synchronized daily production planning, optimization and scheduling in the food and beverage and manufacturing sector.
- New or expanded capabilities within the RELEX unified retail and supply chain planning platform from Optimity include production planning, production scheduling, network balancing, distribution planning and purchase planning.
“Our depth in some of the most complex consumer goods industries like bakery, ready-made meals, protein production and industrial manufacturing complements the vast understanding of consumer demand that RELEX has, based on their impressive expertise managing more than $700 billion of demand in grocery alone,” says Christer Liden, CEO, Optimity. “We are thrilled to join the RELEX team and further optimize the consumer goods value chain together.”
