Relex is an AI platform that allows retailers and manufactures to improve forecast accuracy, optimize operations, and plan production to shelf movement, all to increase efficiency, sales and sustainability. Restaurant Brand Europe (RBE), a quick service restaurant operator in Southern Europe that operates more than 1,350 Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Horton locations across Spain, Italy, and Portugal, has recently put Relex into operation at all locations. Relax will help RBE in order to help balance the necessity for product availability at all restaurants while also reducing the amount of food waste created.
The Relex system uses it processes in order to generate order proposals based on the demands of each location, Making sure that all locations have the ingredients they need while reducing the excess inventory and food waste within the restaurants. The AI platform specifically pays attention to the needs of each location, ensuring that neither too much or too little ingredients are sent to the locations. This process saves food waste on the production end of each restaurant as the AI is looking to make sure that no ingredients expire before they are used, something that can dramatically decrease the waste created.
RBE previously worked with a competitor planning tool that needed manual input in some processes. While this support supported the company’s growth, the accelerated expansion and operational complexity lead to the necessity for a more scalable and automated system. The system Relex offers is something that can help RBE with the constantly changing restaurant demand on the local level.
