Leslie's Poolmart Automates It's Supply Chain With SPS Commerce's Community Enablement and Hosted EDI Services
Pool Product Retailer Streamlines Operations with More Than 200 Suppliers
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 25, 2005 - SPS Commerce, the leader in hosted Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) software, announced today that Leslie's Poolmart, Inc., the leading specialty retailer of swimming pool supplies and related products, will modernize its supply chain using SPS Commerce's Community Enablement and hosted EDI services. By this fall, Leslie's Poolmart will have implemented SPS' hosted service as its exclusive EDI system. Then, to ensure wide adoption of its automated order management process, SPS' Community Enablement campaign will target to enable the retailer's vendors. The enablement program includes the opportunity for more than 200 Leslie's Poolmart suppliers to utilize SPS Commerce's EDI Testing Service or one of its hosted transaction services to meet the retailer's electronic order management requirements for purchase orders, invoices, Advance Ship Notices (ASNs) and UCC bar code labels.
"Over the past years Leslie's has outgrown its paper-based ordering systems and needed the efficiencies that come with EDI," said Mike Hatch, senior vice president, merchandising and marketing at Leslie's Swimming Pool Supplies. "We selected SPS Commerce to both perform all of our EDI operations and execute a campaign to electronically enable or certify more than 200 suppliers. As a hosted service, SPS Commerce can more quickly execute both initiatives, while allowing us to remain focused on our business. With 10 percent of our suppliers already connected to other retailers via of SPS Commerce, we already have a great start."
"We are pleased to welcome Leslie's Poolmart and its suppliers to our community," said Archie Black, chief executive officer of SPS Commerce. "With a growing business, Leslie's Poolmart will benefit greatly from a more automated order management system. With SPS Commerce's EDI solution, Leslie's Poolmart and their vendors will experience more efficient processing, a reduction in errors, and elimination of misplaced documents. And, because it's a hosted solution, they can all reap these rewards faster and at a lower cost of ownership than traditional EDI software."
About Leslie's Poolmart
Founded in 1963, Leslie' Poolmart, Inc. is the country's leading specialty retailer of swimming pool supplies and related products. The Company markets its products through 515 retail stores in 36 states; a nationwide mail-order catalog; and an internet E-commerce site, www.lesliespool.com.
