Trading Partner Platform

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 (SaaS) approach and prebuilt 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. More than 40,000 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 prebuilt maps, or integration code. By reusing these prebuilt 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 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 on-demand staffing resources to completely manage your trading partner integration efforts.

Integrated with Your Business Processes and Applications

SPSCommerce.net features prebuilt integrations with 3,000 order management models across 1,500 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 various flat files. 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.