SPSCommerce.net Overview

The Industry’s Leading Trading Partner Integration Center

SPSCommerce.net is a suite of outsourced services that improve the way trading partners manage and fulfill orders in the retail supply chain. As the industry’s largest trading partner integration center, SPSCommerce.net uses an outsourced, Software-as-a-Service approach and pre-built integrations to help customers get up-and-running quickly without investing in technology infrastructure or staff.

SPSCommerce.net is at the center of the broadest trading partner community in the consumer packaged goods industry including retailers and grocers, suppliers, third-party logistics providers, sourcing companies, QA firms, brokers, carriers, factors, software providers, factories and systems integrators. More than 35,000 companies in the retail ecosystem rely on SPSCommerce.net to enhance their trading relationships.

A Multi-tenant, SaaS Approach

SPS Commerce has pioneered a multi-tenant, SaaS approach to trading partner integration, in which suppliers leverage pre-built maps, or integration code. By reusing these pre-built maps, suppliers access highly-reliable code that has been battle-tested by thousands of customers and is constantly updated to address retailers’ changing requirements. This multi-tenant approach is a dramatic improvement over the single-tenant models of the past, in which hundreds or even thousands of CPG manufacturers created the same maps for the same retail customers, each one reinventing the wheel.

Our outsourced services deliver all of the functionality of traditional software applications, while providing greater reliability, faster implementation and lower cost of ownership. In addition, our SaaS architecture gives all trading partners, regardless of location, real-time access to key supply chain information via a standard Web browser, improving supply chain visibility and ensuring everyone is on the same page.

Implementing and maintaining dedicated resources for trading partner integration is extremely resource intensive and not a core competency for most businesses. SPSCommerce also provides the outsourced staffing resources to completely manage your trading partner integration efforts.

A Broad Range of Services for Optimizing Trading Partner Relationships

SPSCommerce offers a wide array of services that help trading partners work together more effectively, including:

• Trading partner enablement: trading partner community development programs that allow companies to implement new integrations with trading partners. Services include enablement campaigns and EDI testing.
• Trading partner integration: enables organizations to comply with customers’ trading requirements and exchange information electronically. These services include EDI, catalog and on-line ordering.
• Trading partner applications: help companies process and fulfill orders more efficiently. Services include the Scan and Pack service, labels, packing slips and gift cards.
• Trading partner intelligence: services that use trading partner information to improve sales and operations. Services are available for suppliers and retailers.
• Trading partner supplies: a one-stop shop for all the equipment and materials needed for a successful retail fulfillment process.
• Trading partner platform: provides the foundation for the SPSCommerce.net suite of services. Delivered via a multi-tenant SaaS model, the platform incorporates trading partner maps, application maps, staffing resources, and software and hardware infrastructure.

We’re Already Integrated with Your Business Processes and Applications

SPSCommerce.net features pre-built integrations with 2,700 order management models across 1,300 retailers, grocers and distributors. Our comprehensive outsourced services support all document types (purchase orders, advance shipping notices, invoices and more), fulfillment models (such as ship to distribution center, vendor managed inventory, private label and others) and data transmission modes (including FTP, VAN and AS2). SPSCommerce.net supports a variety of file formats including EDI, XML and flat file. In addition, adapters are available for leading accounting, ERP, warehouse management, and shipping and packing applications—each providing an out-of-the-box connection to SPSCommerce.net.

SPSCommerce.net is easy to integrate into your existing business process. The service can be accessed via an on-line WebForm or directly integrated into your business systems. Our application programming interface (API) allows data to flow in and out of supplier’s applications while hiding the complexity associated with the retailer’s maps, XML or other transaction sets. So, users simply focus on their own operational systems without having to become trading partner integration experts.

Customer Advocacy Drives Our Growth

More than 35,000 customers in 40 countries use the SPSCommerce.net service. And the numbers keep growing.

After experiencing the benefits of SPSCommerce.net, many customers become our partners and refer other customers and partners to us. Likewise, many partners also become users of our system. The interconnectedness of our business model creates a viral effect that continues to fuel our growth and expand the breadth of our trading partner community.