We are a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain management solutions,
providing network-proven fulfillment, sourcing and item assortment management
solutions, along with comprehensive retail performance analytics to thousands
of customers worldwide. We provide our solutions through the SPS Commerce Platform,
a cloud-based product suite that improves the way retailers, suppliers, distributors
and logistics firms orchestrate the sourcing, set up of new vendors and items
and fulfillment of products that consumers buy. Implementing and maintaining
this suite of supply chain management capabilities is resource intensive and
not a core competency for most businesses. The SPS Commerce Platform eliminates
the need for on premise software and support staff, which enables our customers
to focus their resources on their core business. The SPS Commerce Platform enables
retailers, suppliers, distributors and logistics firms to increase supply cycle
agility, optimize inventory levels and sell-through, reduce costs, increase
visibility into customer orders and ensure suppliers, distributors and logistics
firms satisfy exacting retailer requirements.
We operate one of the largest retail trading partner networks through a cloud-based
services suite that improves the way suppliers, retailers, logistics firms,
distributors and other trading partners manage and fulfill orders, manage sell-through
performance and source new items. Approximately 75,000 customers across more
than 60 countries currently use our Platform to improve the performance of their
trading relationships. Our Platform fundamentally changes how organizations
use electronic communication to manage their supply chains by replacing the
collection of traditional, custom-built, point-to-point integrations with a
network model whereby a single integration to our Platform enables an organization
to connect seamlessly to the entire SPS Commerce network of trading partners.
From that single connection, a member of our network can make use of the full
suite of our solutions, from fulfillment automation, to the analysis and optimization
of item sell-through performance, to sourcing new items, retailing relationships
or providers of logistics and other services. This represents a fundamental
change to fulfillment automation and enables inherent adaptability and flexibility
not possible with traditional supply chain management system architectures.
Our Platform is comprised of a set of coupled cloud services that deliver value
as stand-alone offerings, but also provide additional value when used collectively.
Our fulfillment product combines integrations that comply with numerous rule
books for retailers and distributors with whom we and our customers have done
business. By maintaining current integrations with retailers, our Platform removes
the need for a retailer’s trading partners to continually stay up-to-date
with the rule book changes required by retailers. Moreover, by utilizing a cloud
services model, we eliminate or greatly reduce the burden on trading partners
to support and maintain an on-premise software application, thereby reducing
ongoing operating costs. As the transaction hub for trading partners, we also
are able to provide increased performance visibility and data analytics capabilities
across their supply chains, each of which is difficult to gain from traditional,
point-to-point integration solutions.
The following solutions are enabled through the SPS Commerce cloud services
Platform:
Trading Partner Community Enablement. Our Community Enablement solution enables
organizations, from large to small retailers and suppliers to emerging providers
of value-added products and services, to verify that they can electronically
trade with their trading partners.
Trading Partner Fulfillment. Our Fulfillment solution provides fulfillment
automation and replaces or augments an organization’s existing trading
partner electronic communication infrastructure, enabling them to have visibility
into the journey of an order and comply with retailers’ rule books and
enabling the electronic exchange of information among numerous trading partners
through various protocols.
Trading Partner Assortment. Today’s retail marketplace requires the management
of tens and even hundreds of individual attributes associated with each item
a retailer or supplier sells today. This information can include supply chain
descriptions and measurements, store and shelf dimensions, warehouse dimensions,
digital images/video, customer facing descriptions and measurements, and warehouse
information. Our Assortment product provides robust, extensible management of
this information, enabling accurate orders and rapid fulfillment.
Trading Partner Analytics. Our Analytics solution consists of data analytics
applications that enable our customers to improve their visibility across, and
analysis of, their supply chains. When focused on point-of-sale data, for example,
retailers and suppliers can ensure inventory is located where demand is highest.
Retailers improve their visibility into supplier performance and their understanding
of product sell-through.
Trading Partner Sourcing. Through Retail Universe, our social network for the
retail industry, retailers can source providers of new items, suppliers can
connect with new retailers and the broader retailing community can make connections
to expand their business networks and grow.
Other Trading Partner Solutions. We provide a number of peripheral solutions
such as barcode labeling, planogram services and our scan and pack application,
which helps trading partners process information to streamline the picking and
packaging process.
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