Sourcing Companies Services
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"SPS Commerce has provided Arena with an outsourced EDI solution that has exceeded my expectations. By outsourcing to SPS Commerce, Arena has been able to improve our productivity and enhance our supply chain relationships."
Keith Ritchie, Corporate IT Director, Arena Brands Inc.
SPS Commerce Services for Sourcing Companies
Sourcing companies connect thousands of suppliers with global resources to design, manufacture and ship their products to market. Maintaining accurate EDI connections to factories, as well as EDI requirements of the recipients of their shipments (retailers), can be daunting for even the largest sourcing companies. When communications with remote factories are added to the mix, internal EDI software operations quickly become problematic and alternative (often manual) processes are put into place. Sourcing companies need an EDI solution that connects them with their customers, their customers’ retail customers, and factories in Asia and beyond. Sourcing companies need SPSCommerce.net.
SPS Commerce offers the following solutions for sourcing companies:
- EDI Services for visibility into supply chain transactions and timely communications from factories on behalf of your retail customers
- Label Service to empower factories to prepare and barcode label shipments onsite as soon as the shipment is ready
- Testing to validate the accuracy of any new or modified EDI documents for any trading partner
- Inventory Upload for streamlined communication of inventories for all customers
Unlike traditional EDI software that is too expensive and cumbersome to distribute across a global network, SPSCommerce.net is an easily deployable EDI service that requires only an Internet browser or web-based API. Using SPS’ EDI service, sourcing companies can ensure that each site and factory receive timely and accurate order information to make manufacturing more productive. Factories also receive barcode labels that can be printed onsite for more immediate shipment. With no onsite technology or expertise required, factories can send and receive EDI transactions including the Advance Ship Notice (ASN), via SPS’ service. Sourcing companies and their related factories leverage the reliability and connections trusted by more than 37,000 organizations today with over 1,300 North American retailers and distributors.
