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RELEX Solutions Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling 2025 Vendor Assessment

RELEX drives smarter decisions and real-time agility with its AI-native platform for advanced production scheduling and planning

RELEX Solutions has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling 2025 Vendor Assessment (1). The IDC MarketScape notes, “RELEX's architecture supports a unified platform architecture that seamlessly connects demand planning through production scheduling, eliminating traditional planning silos. This end-to-end integration enables synchronized material pegging, automated order synchronization, and real-time constraint propagation across planning layers.”

The IDC MarketScape evaluates solution providers on both capabilities and strategy, focusing on advanced production planning and scheduling tools that optimize the allocation of materials and production capacity.

According to the report, “RELEX is best considered by midsize to large manufacturers (especially in the CPG and food and beverage sectors) seeking an advanced, AI-native APS platform with end-to-end visibility, frequent innovation, and strong scenario management — where unified demand, supply, and production planning are critical to business performance.”

The company’s manufacturing capabilities expanded significantly through sustained investments, enabling AI-powered planning and scheduling at scale for sectors such as food & beverage, health & beauty and apparel, and other CPG companies. Its modular, SaaS-native platform covers master planning, distribution planning, production scheduling, and demand planning, blending heuristics with mathematical optimization and constraint-aware planning to support multi-site, multi-plant operations. Near real-time connectivity to execution systems means Calculations can be triggered immediately to resolve disruptions, ensuring agility and resilience.

“We believe being named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape confirms the strength of our unified platform and the value it delivers to manufacturers,” said Mikko Kärkkäinen, Co-founder and Group CEO, RELEX Solutions. “Over the last year, we’ve expanded our manufacturing capabilities, further broken down planning silos, and brought AI innovation to the heart of production planning. This recognition reflects the results our customers see every day - greater visibility, agility, and measurable value.”

RELEX is built to navigate thought the most challenging production planning complexities of modern manufacturing. New developments include integrated AI agents into the platform, improved diagnostics, scenario modeling, and real-time decision-making, which is helping manufacturers respond quickly to changing demand, supply disruptions, and operational constraints.

“RELEX’s unified platform connects demand planning through production scheduling, removing silos that slow manufacturers down,” said Lorenzo Veronesi, Associate Research Director, IDC Manufacturing Insights. “With strong AI-driven innovation, rapid development, and a clear focus on complex manufacturing, they’re well-positioned to deliver end-to-end visibility and agility for CPG and food & beverage companies.”

Read the excerpt here.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling 2025 Vendor Assessment doc #US52988825, September 2025

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About RELEX

RELEX Solutions delivers a unified supply chain planning platform for retailers and manufacturers, enabled by proven AI technology. We help companies optimize demand forecasting, replenishment, merchandising, pricing and promotions, supply chain operations, and production planning across the end-to-end value chain. Brands like ADUSA, AutoZone, Coles, Circle K, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar, Ford South America, M&S Food, PetSmart, Rituals, The Home Depot, Systemair and Vita Coco trust RELEX to increase product availability, boost sales, deliver actionable insights, improve sustainability, and drive profitable growth. Learn more at: https://www.relexsolutions.com/customers/

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