Inbound Logistics names SPS Commerce to its Top 100 Logistics IT Providers List
Each spring, Inbound Logistics identifies the top 100 software providers meeting the supply chain challenges of today’s logistics professionals. SPS Commerce was (again) named to this prestigious list based on our commitment to streamlining the logistics process that...
When your retailer asks to trade electronically with EDI
Smaller suppliers that have been selling to smaller retail partners have probably found a nice little groove — your retail buyer emails a purchase order, which you enter into your inventory system. The order gets packed and shipped, and you send it off to your...
Highlights from CodeDay 2018 Minneapolis & Toronto at SPS Commerce
SPS Commerce hosted CodeDay 2018 in Minneapolis and Toronto on February 17th and 18th and both were a smashing success. CodeDay is a coding event for high school and college student programmers, artists, musicians, actors and everyone else to get together for 24 hours...
Pressures on grocery that require a response
The year 2016 was an important year in the retail marketplace that has changed the way everyone in this space operates. It was the year the Millennial population surpassed the Baby Boomers as the largest living generation in the United States. According to the U.S....
EDI for pet product retailers and suppliers
EDI has helped a variety of businesses in retail and the retail supply chain. Its improved accuracy, communication and speed capabilities have played an important role in the growth and streamlining of grocery, cosmetics, sports, home improvement and other industries....
Grocery vendor swaps out EDI provider after outages, snafus
Schwabe North America, also known as Nature’s Way, offers an extensive product line of herbal medicines sold by national retailers and grocery chains including Amazon, Costco, Giant Eagle, Kroger, Loblaws, and Wegmans. With new retailers and grocers choosing to carry...
Distributors and wholesalers: Add services to attract new business
Due to shifts in the retail and retail supply chain industry, distributors and wholesalers have had a lot to think about to make sure they’re able to maintain and expand their business. One of the approaches that distributors and wholesalers are taking is to offer...
How to get certified for Amazon’s Seller Fulfilled Prime
You've no doubt heard, "If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." It's true in the e-commerce supply chain world too, only this time, "Mama" is Amazon and Walmart, and if you can make them happy, you can pretty much make any retailer happy. That's because these retail...
Collaboration with trading partner networks raises all boats
Retailers who want to participate in a true omnichannel strategy and reap its rewards will find that it's impossible to fully deliver on customers' expectations without some amount of collaboration with trading partners. Likewise, vendors and suppliers that want to...
Automated purchase order to invoice reconciliation for retailers
The retail industry is changing at lightning-fast speeds. Consumers want more variety, cheaper, faster. Retailers and their trading partners are expected to keep up. With every link in the supply chain accelerating, manual processes which are required before business...
EDI 861: Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate
The Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate is growing in popularity as more and more retailers rely on their trading partners to help manage inventory. The EDI 861 document is often used in automatic stock-replenishment programs managed by the supplier or vendor. As...
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VHC Brands’ online sales demand 99% EDI accuracy [Case Study]
Sales of VHC Brands’ quilts and other home furnishing products were booming on Amazon, Houzz, SHOP.COM and Wayfair, among other retailers. Committed to meeting the growing demands of its retailers and their consumers, VHC Brands teamed with SPS Commerce to streamline...
EDI for health, beauty and cosmetics retail and supply
EDI has played an important role in the growth and streamlining of the retail clothing, industrial supplies and grocery industries. And it can have a positive impact on the cosmetics and beauty retail vertical as well. There's a growing demand for healthy, beauty and...
Digital retail, Toys R Us and adaptability in times of change
Change has been inevitable for humans since the dawn of our existence. Every discovery leads to a new discovery and leads to a new discovery and so on, with each new innovation helping lead to changes in behavior that improve our lives. Think gathering, then hunting,...
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Valencia Pipe takes more brands to market with supply chain automation [Case Study]
With its leading gas tubing, HOME-FLEX, and other products’ sales on the rise, Valencia Pipe Company sought to replace its manual order and fulfillment processes with one that would scale to support its long-term plans. By deploying SPS Commerce Fulfillment (EDI), the...
Item information for drop shipping success
Drop shipping has been one of the biggest boons to retail e-commerce, especially those stores that want to offer the endless aisle but don't have endless resources to do so. By working with drop ship-capable vendors, retailers can utilize vendors' inventory and...
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Retailers, grocers educate and certify 8,700 vendors with SPS Online Courses [Press Release]
Did you know SPS Commerce offers 75 online training programs that educate and certify suppliers to deliver a more efficient supply chain? Courses are available for leading retailers, including Ace Hardware, Arhaus, Cabela’s, CDW, Chewy.com, David Jones, Dick’s...
Consolidating suppliers for wholesalers and distributors
To help streamline their operations and refine their focus, many organizations in the retail and supply chain industry are reducing the number of partners they have in order to successfully operate. Wholesalers and distributors are not immune to this trend, as it's...
Retail is dying
By Chad Rubin, Skubana Co-Founder and Ecommerce Renegade In 1972, ARPANET was used to arrange the sale of cannabis between two students, and e-commerce hasn't stopped since. From the earliest days of Internet technology, it was almost inevitable that it would be used...
Learning from Amazon’s embrace of personalization
Remember in the early days of Amazon when the "People who bought this item also bought... " items appeared below your purchase, enticing you to buy one or two more related items? This early version of the Endless Aisle was a great reminder to customers that there were...
EDI 101: 5 signs your business could benefit from EDI – WEBINAR
You may have heard that electronic data interchange (EDI) is essential to your supply-chain business, or maybe you were recently told you must have it in order to be compliant with a retailer you support––but you’re not exactly sure how it works or how it can benefit...
EDI 214: Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message
One of the greatest innovations since the transportation of sliced bread was the ability to track a package shipment online. Consumers were overjoyed when they were able to start doing this with shippers like UPS and Fedex. They could look up a tracking number and see...
Consumer’s evolving digital shopping habits
Ask any parent of teenagers how hard it is to keep up with their teens' ever-changing habits: favorite music and TV shows, favorite video games, and even their friends. All of that will change from week to week and even day to day, and the parents feel like they're...
The game has changed to win big on retail execution
By Gina Ashe, CEO, ThirdChannel Retail is a number’s game. To stay profitable, brands are deliberate in how they develop products, carefully considering every step from R&D, to materials sourcing, to production, to shipping and logistics. Once the product arrives at...
Collaboration with networks is the future of retail
One of the greatest business revolutions ever is the way the internet harnessed information, data, and communication to create a whole new businesses models and ways to make money. This revolution had the added effect of disrupting so many entrenched business models...
RWC reaps the rewards of new sales with EDI for SAP
In 2017, Reliance Worldwide Corporation (RWC) signed with a new retailer with over 2,000 selling locations that would carry more than 100 RWC product SKUs at each location. “If we were still doing EDI manually, this account would have required a team of ten full-time...
SPS Commerce comes up big at Acumatica Summit 2018
For the third consecutive year, SPS Commerce had the good fortune of sponsoring Acumatica Summit. This year, Acumatica threw a honky-tonk themed event and hosted their community in Nashville, Tenn., complete with live entertainment and a trip to the Country Music Hall...
Automation remedies for understaffing issues in retail
Now that the old year has finished and the new one has begun, retailers and suppliers everywhere are running their post-mortems and after action reports about their performance - both for the year and that last holiday shopping season. One recurring theme everyone is...
Third era of retail: Complexity evolving, but fundamentals endure
The history of retail today is a microcosm of modern American history. Everything we’ve accomplished as a nation in industry, transportation and technology, we see happening on a similar scale in retail. When you understand the evolution of the retail industry, you...
Industrial distributors and wholesalers gearing up for construction season
For many do-it-yourselfers around the country, it was a banner day when they could start ordering tools and hardware from Amazon and Lowe's, having their favorite cordless drill or hammer shipped right to them. Not wanting to be left behind, smaller hardware stores,...
5 ways technology drives down costs in retail, supply chain
People often like to complain about how technology has made our lives busier instead of easier, and with good reason. It has gotten easier to create more information, but that means we've got more to read. It has gotten easier to communicate with other people, but now...
Clarks and SPS Commerce Analytics: People make the difference
Clarks’ story begins almost 200 years ago, in 1825, Cyrus and James Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off-cuts. Not exactly the types of products that retailers are typically selling to consumers these days, giving an idea to just how deep this company's history...
Automated three-way match for distributors and wholesalers
Technology and the internet have transformed many aspects of our world. With so much information available, everything is speeding up and there’s more options than ever. That’s true for every industry and sector, including distributors and wholesalers. Whether you’re...
Amazon going after non-produce grocery
After Amazon purchased Whole Foods, many people who aren't in the retail sector were left scratching their heads about why Jeff Bezos had made the grocery chain purchase (including several jokes about Bezos telling his Alexa device to order something from Whole Foods...
Merchandising strategy is hard, don’t do it alone
No store is an island, and no brand functions solely on their own. It takes a large village of people to keep a retail brand's stores running properly, inventory flowing in and out of the store and a lot of trusted partners that can help. From your suppliers and your...
Creating the perfect order
By Jim Bork, Vice President of Sales at Oracle NetSuite Delivering on your key stakeholders’ expectations comes from the ability to complete the perfect order. Getting the right products delivered at the best price, when, how and where they want is the expectation...
EDI 846: Value of the Inventory Inquiry/Advice
Want to know how much of a particular product is available from a seller? Rather than calling or emailing suppliers to ask their updated counts, this can be managed electronically and even automatically through the EDI 846, the Inventory Inquiry/Advice document. It's...
Reverse logistics planning for the retail supply chain
There's more to returns than simply people getting the wrong sized aquamarine sweater or Grandma getting you a Star Wars lunchbox when you really wanted a Star Trek thermos. Holiday returns only account for 24% of retailers’ annual returns – most happen outside of...
Evolution of Buy Online Pickup Instore (BOPIS or BOPUS)
The future of buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS or BOPUS) is changing as retail giants continue to innovate and reexamine what retail shopping of the future is going to look like. In the past, BOPIS was fairly straightforward. Consumers online to their favorite...
Avondale Decor finds new retail customers with SPS Sourcing
Avondale Décor, LLC brings its elegant collection of Allied Brass bathroom accessories made of solid brass and finished with a complete section of lifetime finishes to consumers through a variety of physical and online retailer sites. To fuel their ongoing growth,...
How data analytics enable agility across supply chains
Everything is driven by data these days. The marketing department analyzes data to know which ads and campaigns work, production analyzes data to know if their associates are working to capacity, and even the banking world is analyzing mountains of data to better...
Value of EDI compliance for wholesalers and distributors
As a wholesaler or distributors, you might work with a few dozen or a few hundred brands and manufacturers. Each one of your trading partners may offer 10 to 200 different products and SKUs. Each brand or manufacturer has their own system, and their own way of...
Network with SPS Commerce at these trade shows through March 2018
We’re excited to be kicking off our 2018 trade show season! This year, SPS Commerce be in attendance at several major events. We hope to see you at one of these three events over the next three months. Acumatica Summit 2018, Jan. 28-30, 2018 – Nashville, Tenn. SPS has...
Difficulties of managing the grocery supply chain
The grocery supply chain can be difficult enough, but when it comes to produce, the stakes are higher. Consumers are switching from consumer-packaged goods to fresh foods, like fruit and vegetables and if it’s not fresh, they will take their business elsewhere....
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Sourcing solution from SPS Commerce [VIDEO]
The Sourcing solution from SPS Commerce is the assortment expansion and management solution designed for merchandising across all your channels. The solution provides retailers access to the largest network of products worldwide, instant access to vendors and shortens...
SPS Tower has a nice ring to it
BIG news! There’s a new building in town. Well, not really – but the building formerly known as 333 South Seventh Street has been renamed SPS Tower. The change comes as a result of our company’s growth, as well as a renewed lease agreement. SPS Commerce currently...
SPS Commerce is doing BIG things at NRF 2018
Are you currently faced with having to onboard hundreds of new vendors in less than a week? How about your suppliers - do you feel as if they’re truly working for you? Learn how our Community solution can help your supplier and vendor communities in a BIG way by...
Collaboration with expert partners adds value almost instantly
Collaboration and teamwork have become a theme in our everyday lives. Musicians collaborate on songs we hear, brands collaborate with artists for create new fashions and collectors’ items. Public-private partnerships between government and companies or charities take...
Retail’s million dollar business problems – and opportunities
The thing about small problems is that they often turn into big problems further on down the line. NASA lost the $125 million Mars Orbiter due to a “failed translation of English units into metric units.” A French railway bought 2,000 cars that were just a few inches...
A well-oiled supply chain, Princess Auto and SPS Commerce
Princess Auto Ltd. is a Canadian company based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Today, the retailer has 44 stores and over 2,400 team members to complete your purchase whether it be in-store, online, or on the phone. “Doing business electronically is the only way to do...
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