![Australia’s Retail Market is Easier with Full-Service EDI [Case Study]](https://www.spscommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-10-at-3.56.07-PM.png)
Australia’s Retail Market is Easier with Full-Service EDI [Case Study]
The Trilogy Group grew from a small New Zealand company in 2002 with five products to a multinational company with more than 40 products today, including Ecoya candles, Goodness Skincare and Trilogy Skincare. The natural skincare supplier was very successful in New...
Benefits of EDI for 3PL’s and Logistics Service Providers
If you're a third-party logistics provider (3PL), EDI may or may not be on your radar. Often, it’s not explored unless a trading partner has asked you to pursue it as a condition of working together. In that case, it’s often viewed as a business expense, but in truth,...
How to lead a successful EDI change management process
To keep pace in a constantly evolving retail business world, organizations often need to implement enterprisewide changes affecting their processes, products, and people. Process change is a fact of life in businesses today. It can be difficult, and people often...
SPS Tower celebrates unveiling of Women Who Code floor
On Friday, November 15th, 2019, SPS Commerce celebrated the grand reveal of its fully reimagined 8th floor at SPS Tower. Highlighting inspirational and historical women in technology, the WOMEN WHO CODE 8th floor opened for normal operations on Monday, November 18th,...
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The secret to increasing retail sales [Case Study]
Benchmade is widely recognized for its quality pocket knives, making it a preferred choice of law enforcement officers, government officials, and outdoor enthusiasts. The company offers more than 300 SKUs at outdoor, hardware and sporting goods retailers nationwide....
How to excel at eCommerce order fulfillment
It’s no surprise that eCommerce order fulfillment is capturing headlines and mindshare. On-time shipments, BOPIS/BORIS options, and recognizable packaging can make or break a consumer’s shopping experience. If done right, they’ll return. If not, forget about a repeat...
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Jonny Pops serves up small business growth with full-service EDI [video]
Jonny Pops is a small business growth story rooted in making the world a better place, one frozen pop at a time. Connor Wray and his dorm mates at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, became retail entrepreneurs with an idea for a smoothie on a stick. They...
2019 pre-holiday eCommerce preparedness checklist
We're in the last few weeks before the biggest pain points for this year's holiday online shopping experiences are known. This is the time to batten down the hatches and make sure everything is ship-shape, allowing you to execute as fantastic of a holiday season as...
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Drop Shipping Webinar: Five requirements for success [VIDEO]
This on-demand drop shipping webinar will share the basics you’ll need to understand what’s required to start your own drop shipping program. Created in partnership with ShipStation, we've also included some great tips and advice on how to drop ship successfully. To...
SPS Commerce IN>TORONTO19: An evening of eCommerce insights and conversation
eCommerce companies are tempted to grow quickly and through every channel open to their business. However, the experts on the panel at our Toronto event had some insight and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. These topics were part of the panel...
Enhancements now available for Fulfillment for Sage 500 leveraging MAPADOC technology
With the recent Sage 500 compatibility release, the SPS team has made several enhancements to our Fulfillment System Automation solution for Sage 500 leveraging MAPADOC Technology. Our full-service EDI team continues to be dedicated to helping you simplify your work...
How Artificial Intelligence is shaping the retail supply chain
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become mainstream––interjecting itself into almost every aspect of our modern, technology-based lives. The potential of AI to enhance everyday business actions and strategies within the supply chain has been a topic of great...
VIP Products scales business with full-service EDI
Founded by entrepreneur Steven Sacra, VIP Products manufactures pet toys for today’s toughest dogs and their owners. The business started in his garage and quickly grew as national retailers discovered his product line. For Sacra, growth required automation,...
Oracle EDI Automation: using the eCommerce Gateway without a translator
Of all the enterprise ERPs out there, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) arguably has the least out-of-the-box functionality when it comes to EDI. This means that when you buy Oracle you get the platform and the modules, but you’re on your own when it comes to actually...
![Streamlining & simplifying item data management [PODCAST]](https://www.spscommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Simplifying-item-data-management.jpg)
Streamlining & simplifying item data management [PODCAST]
When you’re managing item data for hundreds or thousands of products, things can get out of hand real fast. That’s especially true if your processes include manual data entry task – anything performed by a human runs the risk for errors. Every retailer or vendor has...
A collaborative approach to vendor scorecarding
Vendor scorecarding brings to mind an image of penalties imposed by retailers or grocers onto their supplier community. Scorecards are often associated with chargebacks for noncompliance in areas such as late shipments, incomplete shipments or even improperly placed...
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EDI 101: Five signs your business could benefit from an EDI solution [INFOGRAPHIC]
An EDI solution opens up communication directly with trading partners and connects multiple business systems, giving you a seamless, end-to-end solution. Sounds dreamy, right? The name Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) just doesn’t do it justice. But what does EDI do,...
Shamrock Foods: Success in easy vendor onboarding
Grocery distributor, Shamrock Foods, was experiencing growth and looking for more ways to expand business automation across its retail supply chain, this included easier vendor onboarding. While the food company has used EDI solutions with suppliers for years, they...
Free up your order processing schedule with EDI automation
With the summer behind us, autumn has officially begun, and with this change in season, the busy holiday season is now underway as is a return to standard daylight time. Retailers nation-wide are rejoicing at the ability to use that ‘extra hour’ to manage their retail...
Part 3: Distributed Order Management for Third-party Logistics
By Shravan Talupula, Product Management, Director at Deposco & Carina Wingel, Marketing Director at Deposco As demand from logistics grows, it is apparent 3PL’s are serving their customers in more ways than storing and moving inventory from A to B. Today...
Streamlining Item Data Management
Streamlining item data management is not only achievable, it’s quite helpful for retailers, vendors and even the consumer. Find out more in this podcast.
Automation: The understaffing antidote in retail
Now that 2019 holiday planning has begun in earnest, or if you’re hyper-organized its already complete, retailers and suppliers alike are scrambling to address the worker shortage that is plaguing the industry. With unemployment at a nearly 50-year low, finding...
![Retail Order Fulfillment in the Digital Era: How Vendor Partnerships Enhance Execution & Profitability [White paper]](https://www.spscommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Order-Fulfillment-in-the-digital-era-white-paper-SPS-Commerce-1080x582.png)
Retail Order Fulfillment in the Digital Era: How Vendor Partnerships Enhance Execution & Profitability [White paper]
Over the past decade, many terms—including multi-channel, omnichannel, integrated retail, unified commerce, retail order fulfillment, and others—have been used to describe the changing nature of shopping. All of these terms reflect the same goal: to create an...
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Retail system readiness for the holiday season [PODCAST]
The next episode of Mastering the Retail Game is here, just in time to get you pumped and ready for the holiday shopping season. Every year, retailers and their trading partners revamp their processes, update their technology, open new sales channels and fine tune...
Choosing between supplier portals and EDI platforms
Your business's lifeblood relies on a steady flow of retailer orders through your supplier portals but managing them all can be a nightmare. Vendors we work with here at SPS often share just how difficult it can be to manage multiple supplier portals (also called...
Meet Sarah de St. Aubin: #TeamSPS advocate for volunteerism-powered disaster relief
Welcome to #TeamSPS True Blue Stories #TeamSPS True Blue Stories is a blog series dedicated to highlighting the inspiring stories of SPS employees who bring our values to life in unique and meaningful ways. Sarah de St. Aubin, a volunteerism advocate is our first...
Transform your Tuesday with EDI system automation
EDI integrations and automation can break down data silos, reduce communication errors and eliminate bottlenecks that prevent your business from achieving full potential. Learn more about EDI integrations & automation with SPS Commerce blog post.
Retail System Readiness for the Holiday Season
Businesses in the retail industry are constantly making improvements, but everything needs to be ready to go when the busiest shopping season of the year rolls around. David Verette explores retail system readiness for the holiday shopping season in this podcast episode.
The Humble Co. meets retailer EDI requirements to stay focused
Helping suppliers who help the planet Founded in Sweden, The Humble Co. is creating a revolution in personal care through its innovative health and wellness products that are eco-friendly, stylish and socially responsible. The supplier began with bamboo toothbrushes...
4 tips on EDI vendor selection criteria for finance leaders
As we approach the end of 2019 with third quarter well underway, many CFO’s, controllers, and operational leaders are evaluating their retail technology stacks and vendor selection criteria in identifying EDI technology vendors and platforms to help drive better...
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Distributed order management for retailers and E-tailers [Part one]
By Shravan Talupula, Product Management, Director at Deposco & Carina Wingel, Marketing Director at Deposco Part 1: Distributed Order Management for Retailers and E-tailers In this first installment of a three-part series, we dive into three of the five key...
5 reasons to ditch free vendor portals
In life sometimes, you get what you pay for Supplier portals (or vendor portals) are usually free which is why some vendors use them to get their orders from retailers. However, most vendors will tell you that they aren’t as great as they appear. The unfortunate truth...
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Seven elements of full-service EDI [Infographic]
If you’re looking for an EDI solution, the countless cloud EDI offerings available in the market today probably all sound the same. How can you tell the difference between providers? For many businesses, EDI is not a core competency. These companies want to minimize...
Thrive Market exec honored for supply chain vendor enablement
Every year, RIS News, honors several retail executives for their innovation, boldness, and impact through their Pacesetter award. SPS would like to congratulate Jeff Chaput, Vice President of Supply Chain, at Thrive Market for being awarded this supply chain honor in...
3 questions to ask when considering an EDI solution (from a retail IT perspective)
The number of new system integration platforms in the retail IT marketplace keeps growing. Despite each system's unique purposes, they all seem to promise the same thing: a transformation in the way they deliver product support and information to their customers. This...
How can suppliers reduce chargebacks from retailers
Being hit with chargebacks is often just a matter of doing business for some suppliers. For some retailers too. Back in the 1990s, Kmart used to just automatically levy a 2% chargeback against all orders from all suppliers because it was easier than trying to count...
How to choose EDI if you are undecided
You may have heard the pros and cons of EDI from your peers, customers, and partners, and haven’t quite been convinced the timing is right for your business to switch from manual order processing to an automated process using EDI. In short, you are not sure how to...
Strategies to drive your small business growth and product launch success
To make it in today’s rough and tumble eCommerce marketplace, the savvy small business owner needs a great product, and a willingness to take risks. There have never been as many opportunities (and retail technology tools) to either start an eCommerce business, scale...
SPS Commerce honored for gender diversity
SPS Commerce was recently named a Winning ‘W’ Company by 2020 Women on Boards for achieving at least twenty percent female gender diversity on its corporate board before the year 2020. Winning ‘W’ Companies are cited in the 2020 Women on Boards (2020WOB) annual Gender...
Annual SPS fundraising brew off mixes fun with corporate community service
SPS employees (SPSers) look forward to summertime as it means an abundance of beautiful weather for lawn games and events at the Turf Club (the extensive greenbelt which surrounds the SPS tower). When you mix in a bit of fun and competition and tie it to our company...
Mitigating retail seasonality with EDI retail technology
Order slumps and spikes are a nearly unavoidable seasonal byproduct if you operate a business within the retail industry. Retail seasonality consists of everything from shifts in industry/production practices, to weather patterns, holiday shopping periods, and more....
5 ways to scale your business with retail technology
Understanding how to scale a retail business into your next phase of growth is daunting and can take considerable effort. This means wearing many hats to get things done, especially if you're looking to tackle retail stores and also scale your online business. Whether...
Prevent costly and time-consuming errors with full-service EDI
EDI is highly visible to your retail customers and trading partners, especially when something goes wrong. EDI errors can lead to serious issues such as delayed orders, late shipments and damaged customer relationships. That’s why preventing EDI problems before they...
Apparel Magazine Honors Augusta Sportswear Brands’ Automated EDI Initiative
Apparel Magazine recently honored 26 apparel companies for their initiatives using technology to streamline data to impact their business and their supply chains. SPS Commerce was delighted to nominate Augusta Sportswear Brands and see them honored as an Apparel 2019...
SPS Certifies EDI Solution for Acumatica 2019 R1
SPS Commerce Fulfillment EDI solution for Acumatica powered by MAPADOC has been recently recognized as an Acumatica-Certified Application (ACA) for Acumatica 2019 R1. Companies use SPS Fulfillment to achieve 100 percent compliance with retailer EDI requirements....
Five key takeaways from IRCE 2019 @ RetailX
TeamSPS recently visited the Windy City to be part of IRCE @ RetailX. For more than a decade, experts from SPS Commerce have participated in IRCE 2019 to get a feel for what’s happening in the retail community through conversations with attendees from a variety of...
JD Edwards EDI automation best practices
EDI has existed for over a generation now, and the EDI industry is largely mature at this point with a few bigger players like SPS Commerce controlling a big share of the market. That said, a final, often overlooked EDI frontier remains: direct process integration...
Key items to consider when forming a drop ship returns strategy
By Jenny Nguyen, Partner Marketing Manager, ShipStation Returns are a common hurdle for eCommerce retailers, especially in the drop shipping arena in which products are shipped out via suppliers. Though businesses may prefer not to think about returns and their...
![Freeing customer service from manual order validation [Case Study]](https://www.spscommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CS_SURR.png)
Freeing customer service from manual order validation [Case Study]
SUR&R Auto Parts, a leading supplier of fluid line repair kits and specialty tools to the automotive aftermarket industry, process orders. Recently, the volume of orders from one of the company’s key customers increased. This is good news for the business but...
Streamline with an end-to-end JD Edwards EDI integration
As the retail industry and the supply chain that feeds it evolves and becomes more complicated, automation becomes necessary for more and more businesses. Automating processes through EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, can offer some of the best return on investment...
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