SPS Commerce Services for Retailers

Managing an active trading partner community is a growing challenge facing many retailers and grocers.

A list of the retailers that we are connected to is also available online.

As today’s supply chain has evolved to include more types of partners across the globe - not just suppliers, but also third-party logistics providers, sourcing companies, QA firms, brokers, carriers and factors - retailers are seeking a greater degree of integration to meet their supply chain goals. Integrating all of their partners is often the largest obstacle in allowing retailers and grocers to leverage B2B integration technology to:

• More effectively reconcile orders with payments
• Receive shipments more quickly and accurately
• Improve the ability to allocate warehouse space and manage inventory
• Reduce logistics spending
• Improve supply chain visibility with up-to-date information

Supply Chain Community Development

Getting hundreds or even thousands of members of your supply chain to successfully implement integration solutions that are in synch with your supply chain operations takes a lot of time and effort. For many retailers, the process can be cumbersome and consume valuable internal resources. And this daunting effort often prevents organizations from even trying to implement a Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) initiative.

Whether your organization is looking to enable a group of supply chain partners on existing transaction sets, new transactions, or new fulfillment models such as shipment to distribution center, vendor managed inventory (VMI) or private label, SPS Commerce provides services to address these requirements.

SPS Commerce recognizes that implementing B2Bi projects with supply chain partners is both a business and a technical challenge. As a result, our enablement approach is based on a set of best practices that allow each retailer and grocer to design a program that maximizes supplier adoption rates while minimizing supplier disruption. Our non-exclusive approach allows each supplier to select from several options to meet your supply chain integration requirements. Suppliers with existing capabilities will often select our testing service, while suppliers needing a quick, easy way to meet those requirements will often select often of our pre-certified SaaS solutions. To date, we have enabled more than 75,000 suppliers to automate their trading relationships using our leading SaaS EDI service, SPS Commerce.net.

EDI Service

Retailers and grocers also have B2B integration application and staffing needs of their own. In addition to providing services to enable each member of your supply chain, SPS Commerce also offers an EDI service (link to retailer EDI service section) for retailers and grocers.

SPS’ outsourced EDI service is an alternative to traditional EDI software that makes sense for many retailers. Our multi-tenant, SaaS architecture and world-class class data center provide the most reliable system available. And our team of EDI experts delivers all of the support required to maintain your system. By outsourcing your EDI technology and staffing to SPS, you can stay focused on your core competencies, not on managing an EDI department.