Vendor Guides

Vendor Guides

• Retail Entrepreneur’s Guide to Small Business Growth

  Are you asking yourself “How do I grow my small business?”. Wish you could find the right tactics for small business growth? The research team at SPS Commerce interviewed customers about what steps they took to build their business and discovered four common steps they each took towards becoming a successful business.

• Amazon Inventory Spreadsheet Template Download

  Inventory management at Amazon can be a tedious and time-consuming process. This spreadsheet can help.

• The Order Management Playbook

  91% of buying organizations don’t get the data they need from trading partners to determine the status of an order Why do buying organizations need better data from trading partners? Without the right data from trading partners, buying organizations can’t tell if there is a problem with an order until it is too late. Because buying organizations don’t have the insight they need on order statuses, many of them often hold more inventory than they actually need to prevent running out of stock, hire additional staff to contact their trading partners to manage order updates and guess about how much open-to-buy budget they actually have.

• SPS Commerce White Paper: Point of Sale Data Sharing

  Retailers are counting on suppliers to understand and help manage their own products’ performance at the store level. To enable this, an increasing number of retailers provide Point of Sale (POS) data to vendors so that suppliers can perform their own analysis and help retailers make better decisions. Current low-cost offerings from Software as a Service (SaaS) EDI providers can be set up quickly, and help suppliers develop strategies to share with their retailers for the betterment of their mutual business efforts. The low cost of entry and short learning curve make these systems no-risk, but high-reward ways of building a long-term relationship that transforms the supplier from an order taker to a business partner.

• Solutions for the Grocery Supply Chain Traceability Problem

  Why does traceability matter? Traceability from farm to table is not yet a reality in the grocery supply chain. Even as more foodborne issues can be identified and recalls are more frequent, it’s not easy to discover what went wrong between where food is grown to where it’s processed, packaged, shipped, prepared and delivered to the end consumer. That’s why we wrote Solutions for the Grocery Supply Chain Traceability Problem: Protecting Consumer & Business Health with Data Accuracy. In just five pages we explain new regulations set by Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), food safety driven brands and compliance requirements, and the technology that makes this grocery supply chain easier.

• Consumer Expectations Transform Digital Retail [RETAIL INSIGHT 2016]

  Retailers, distributors, suppliers and logistics firms have weighed in. The results have been tallied, the analysis is complete. Our fourth annual benchmark survey with Retail Systems Research (RSR) reveals a major strategic industry shift — one defined by retailers prioritizing online engagement over driving store traffic.