European home and garden retailer, OBI Group, has begun adopting Blue Yonder Demand Planning and end-to-end replenishment capabilities across its stores and distribution centres, with plans to ultimately deploy them to more than 660 stores across all of its markets.

The roll-out replaces multiple systems with a single, scalable platform. It also gives OBI AI enabled forecasting and automated replenishment from distribution centres to store shelves.

“We chose Blue Yonder because its AI and machine learning capabilities give us a single source of truth and harmonised decision-making across demand and replenishment planning," says Andreas Roesmann, SVP Supply Chain, OBI.

"A go live of this scale is never simply smooth - it is real work, and it paid off because we built on a clean target operating model first and migrated into the solution in a structured way. That's why we are confident we will capture the full end-to-end benefits, not just switch systems,with real credit to the strong collaboration with the Blue Yonder Professional Services team along the way."

"OBI serves millions of home and garden customers across 10 European countries. Getting demand planning right at that scale means navigating real complexity, like seasonal peaks, regional variation, and rapidly shifting customer expectations,” sayss Monique Rupert, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Professional Services, Blue Yonder.

“Our AI powered solutions were built for exactly these challenges. We worked closely with the OBI team throughout the deployment, and the foundation they now have will drive measurable improvements across OBI's entire replenishment chain. We look forward to continuing to support them on their transformation."

2026 RTIH Innovation Awards

AI was a key focus area at the 2026 RTIH Innovation Awards.

Check out our winners here.

The awards celebrate global retail technology innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world. Our winners were revealed at the 2026 RTIH Innovation Awards Ceremony, taking place at The HAC in Central London on Wednesday, 4th November.

The event consisted of a drinks reception, three course meal, awards ceremony presided over by award winning stand-up comedian, presenter, actor and broadcaster, Aurie Styla, and after party until 1am.