RELEX Solutions helps retailers and consumer brands achieve profitable growth across all sales and distribution channels by combining AI-driven intelligence with agentic automation. Our unified supply chain and retail planning platform enables retailers to anticipate demand, align merchandising, optimize inventory, and streamline operations—driving higher availability, stronger sales, lower costs, and improved sustainability.
With advanced AI and agentic decision-making, RELEX empowers teams to act faster and smarter, adapting to market shifts in real time. Retailers gain maximum ROI across inventory, space, workforce, and capacity, while ensuring customers always find what they need.
That’s why leading organizations—including UNFI, Vallarta Supermarkets, ADUSA, The Vita Coco Company, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Peak Foods, DoorDash, Whole Foods, Sprouts Farmers Market, Thrive Market, and Weee!—trust RELEX to optimize their supply chain and retail planning.
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Monday Jan 12
11:45am - 12:15pm
Exhibitor Big Ideas Stage 2
AI in retail has moved from theory to practice and now, it’s about results at scale. Tractor Supply Company, the nation’s largest rural lifestyle retailer, is leveraging AI to transform operations end to end, from hyper - localized assortments and demand forecasting to empowering store associates with actionable insights.
In this session, Glenn Allison, VP, Enterprise AI Platforms and AI Solution Engineering at Tractor Supply, and Mikko Kärkkäinen, CEO of RELEX Solutions, will discuss how AI is powering Tractor Supply’s resilience and growth. Glenn will highlight how Tractor Supply is already scaling AI across merchandising, supply chain, and customer experience, while also pioneering what’s next, from agent-based AI that automates complex workflows to innovations that unlock agility in both digital and physical operations.
Mikko will provide perspective on how RELEX’s AI platform is becoming part of this transformation, enabling Tractor Supply to translate insights into smarter, faster, and more localized decisions. Together, they’ll explore what it takes to move from proof-of-concept to enterprise-wide impact.
