Case Study by M.V. Greene – STORES® April, 2008
Boater’s World Marine Centers, headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland, is the second largest marine retail chain in the United States. With over 127 locations, Boater’s World specializes in fishing tackle, marine electronics, water sports gear and cruising equipment for recreational boaters. Founded in 1988, Boater’s World owns and operates boating and fishing superstores in busy boating areas coast to coast. Boater’s World is a division of Ritz Camera Centers, the nation’s largest photo-specialty retail chain.
Solution: Enablement
Results:Boater’s World was able to transition the majority of its 300+ vendors to its EDI platform within six months.
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Founded in 2006, the company is experiencing hyper-growth rates by introducing innovative products that meet the needs of on-the-go consumers for convenient energy, any time. Its products include energy drinks, gum and fruit chew candies.
Solution: Partnered with SPS Commerce and NetSuite
Results: Mad Croc has reduced costs and decreased personnel requirements for order processing and invoicing.
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Kamino operates 32 facilities in major global markets offering American retail vendors a flexible, outsourced solution to the traditional fixed costs of physical, company-owned warehouses as well as global visibility into their supply chain. Kamino outsourced their EDI services to SPS.
Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: Enabled its customers to focus more on selling their products and not worry about logistics, fines, mis-ships and chargebacks.
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Jerky Snack Brands sells its products to large and small retailers including Academy Sports, Ace Hardware, Kroger, SuperValu, and Target. They choose SPS Commerce’s Software-as-a-Service (Saas) integrated EDI solution. Jerky needed a solution that could be quickly manage all of its customers, had rapid scalability, provided fast compliance and was easy to use.
Solution: Integrated EDI
Results: Integration with MAS 200; multi-tenant architeture
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Rapala processes 33,000 orders, supports 11,600 active SKUs, and schedules and ships 3.2 million pounds of freight with ship-to addresses in every state per year. Rapala’s chose to outcource thier EDI to SPS Commerce and as a result have lowered EDI costs and remained focused on running thier business.
Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: Rapala reduced EDI costs by eliminating software maintenance as well as its EDI server.
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Arena has EDI connections with 21 trading partners via SPS Commerce and can bring on new trading partners in one or two days. These partners include small mom-and-pop western apparel shops, that often don’t have their own EDI capabilities, to large retailers such as Cabela’s, Burlington Coat Factory, Dillards, and LL Bean.
Solution: Integrated EDI
Results: Integration with Oracle; rapidly connect with new trading partners
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With increasing compliance requirements from cross docking and direct-to-consumer models, Vexilar found itself spending more and more time doing EDI. Today, Vexilar has integrated its highest EDI volume customers onto SPS’ integrated service to eliminate manual entry of these EDI transactions.
Solution: Hosted EDI
Results: Integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP
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Based on the recommendation of one of their trading partners, Appleseeds begin using SPS Commerce’s outsourced EDI services as a direct link between Appleseeds, their international sourcing agents and their factories in China.
Solution: Outsourced EDI, Barcode Labels
Results: Connected with all sourcing agents in China
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Over time Nambés existing EDI system had become a burden on its IT department. Many hours were spent maintaining the internal B2B integration system so it would send and receive its order, shipping and invoicing documents electronically with its retail customers. With outsourced EDI services from SPS Commerce, Nambé has eliminated its EDI headaches.
Solution: Outsourced EDI
Resluts: Reduced chargebacks by 50% by outsourcing its EDI
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As a CPG vendor to a growing number of retailers, EDI quickly became a requirement of doing business for Cinder Block. That year, Cinder Block made its first EDI connection to PacSun using SPS Commerce’s outsourced EDI service. Since then, they have been expanding their EDI use with only their existing, non-technical staff.
Solution: Outsourced EDI, Universal Catalog Service
Results: Connections to trading partner with no additional staff
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Signatures quickly learned that EDI was a requirement for business. Therefore, it had purchased an EDI software package, its associated infrastructure requirements (hardware, VAN, etc.) and trained its personnel. However, the EDI demands of its customers quickly outpaced this solution and Signatures was faced with a decision - upgrade to another software solution or outsource to a hosted EDI service.
Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: Adding new EDI connections with ease
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WMH decided it was too reliant on internal resources for such a critical application as EDI. By replacing its internal EDI software with SPS’ hosted EDI solution, WMH eliminated its dependency on internal resources and is leveraging the best EDI professionals and technology on the market. The outsourced EDI service is directly integrated with WMH’s SAP R/3 system.
Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: EDI integration with SAP, 40+ retail trading partner connections completed
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Having performed several EDI enablement programs with Northern Tool and its vendor, SPS Commerce worked with Northern to identify its EDI needs and timeframes, and worked around the clock with vendors to test, re-test and enable vendors as needed to meet the deadline.
Solution: Supplier Enablement Services
Results: 95% of vendors in full EDI compliance
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