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Grupo Juguetron has chosen RELEX Solutions to implement advanced demand forecasting and replenishment capabilities across its distribution center and 114 stores in Mexico. This strategic move aims to enhance supply chain efficiency, improve planning for promotions, events, and seasonal demand, and ultimately elevate the customer experience. Isaac Sánchez, CIO of Grupo Juguetron, stated, "At Grupo Juguetron, we are committed to maintaining the tradition of bringing the magic of play to every home in Mexico. With the implementation of RELEX, we will not only optimize our supply chain but also ensure a more efficient and accurate experience to meet the needs of our customers." Carlos Victoria, Senior Vice President for the Americas at RELEX Solutions, commented, “We are excited to begin this partnership with Juguetron, leveraging our expertise in specialty retail to deliver a robust forecasting and replenishment system. With our advanced demand forecasting and replenishment system in place, they will not only enhance their operational efficiency but also ensure optimal stock levels and improved customer satisfaction.”
SUPPLY CHAIN
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Biocodex, a pioneer in human microbiota health, has partnered with Kinaxis to modernize and optimize its supply chain processes. This collaboration aims to achieve greater forecast accuracy, simplify regulatory management, and enhance resilience against disruptions. As Biocodex expands globally, the complexity of its supply chain increases, necessitating end-to-end orchestration. Kinaxis's Maestro™ platform offers pharma-specific functionalities designed to address industry challenges such as expiry management, regulatory approvals, and attribute-based planning. Cécile Jolivet, Procurement & Supply Chain Director at Biocodex, emphasized the company's commitment to delivering medical innovation to patients and the importance of investing in a resilient supply chain to support this mission. Fabienne Cetre, Executive Vice President of EMEA at Kinaxis, highlighted the platform's ability to help Biocodex foresee and manage supply chain disruptions, ensuring timely delivery of medicines to patients.
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Cameron Worth, CEO & Founder of SharpEnd leads the company’s mission to help brands move closer than ever to consumers by connecting packaging, retail and experiential activity.
He is a regular speaker and writer on how to build brands in a connected world. He has spoken at Cannes, the Festival of Marketing, LuxePack Monaco and New York, Ad:Week Europe and New York, DMA, the Connected Consumer Conference, Mobile World Congress and the IoT World Forum.
CAMERON WORTH: SharpEnd was created in 2015 as the world’s first Internet of Things focused agency, so there is a slight play on words when we say we’re the Agency of Things. I think the idea of giving things their own agency is an interesting concept, and the strapline fits our capabilities on multiple levels.
CW: Our simple proposition is to help build brands in a connected world, and to do that you must always start with identified consumer needs or pain points and look at technology as just an enabler to deliver an appropriate solution (when appropriate).
Take the issue of sustainability, which is often a pain point for brands that grapple with issues such as how we can reward sustainable behaviour change. One of our approaches to this could be to look at communicating the recycling credentials of the different products. Whilst the consumer can engage with a product as part of a wider consumer experience, the same technology could also house content that could tell you whether the product is recyclable, which type of bin it goes in etc.
SharpEnd’s work with Unilever is a case in point. We built a digital product that incentivised recycling through gamification but also served to educate through informing people how and where to recycle in a clear fashion. All users had to do was simply scan their packaging to have all this information at their disposal.
Deck 7: What is your favorite part of working at ripe.io?
RACHEL GABATO: My favorite part of working at ripe.io is the diverse background of people that ripe.io has brought together. We’re a blockchain technology company with a mission to build long-lasting trust and confidence in our food supply chain through a platform where everyone can access transparent and reliable information on the origin, journey and quality of their food.
Our co-founders originate from the fintech space, so they were very familiar with blockchain as a technology. They assessed multiple industries and identified the food supply chain as a industry which could be transformed by leveraging this technology. I didn’t have any knowledge of agriculture and the food supply chain, but I had a background in retail supply chain technology. However, we also have food scientists, data scientists, farmers, sustainable agriculture specialists, flavor specialists, blockchain technologists on staff; it’s a diverse group that has their own specialty but when we have ideation sessions, the education and sharing that happens is tremendous. This is one of my favorite parts of ripe.io – seeing us all educating, supporting and working together to work on our common mission.
If you would have asked me two years ago if I would be visiting farms, I would have said no. However, much has changed, and I’ve been on hog farms, produce and citrus farms, sugar cane farms, etc. and visited all participants involved in the supply chain. I find this space incredibly fascinating and interesting. I now have a much better understanding where food comes from, how it gets to us, how it’s grown and handled. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from our team and it’s the intersection of technology and solving the challenges of the food supply chain which I’m incredibly passionate about.
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