Onboarding new suppliers is a long, tedious process. Get help from an expert team.
You need to send orders and set up items with suppliers, and quickly know if they can ship the product you need, otherwise you need to find a new supplier. But adding suppliers to your network on your own is time-consuming and costly, and if handled poorly, can lead to inefficiencies and major problems down the road.
The struggle is real
Keeping your product assortment fresh and achieving speed to market to meet customer demand is hard enough. Manual supplier onboarding takes a lot of time and effort and leads to challenges such as:
Finding and onboarding secondary suppliers quickly when your primary supplier can’t fill an order
Difficulty setting up trial products and evaluations of potential suppliers
Errors in manual processes causing inefficiencies, which have adverse effects down the line
Errors in manual processes causing inefficiencies, which have adverse effects down the line
Change-resistant suppliers may push back against compliance requirements
Long, drawn-out onboarding can delay product launches, order processing, invoicing and ultimately result in disappointed customers
Eliminate the hassle of onboarding suppliers yourself with the right people, process and technology
SPS Commerce actively reaches out to your suppliers to get them onboarded quickly and efficiently.
People
Our dedicated team of over 500 consultants helps plan and execute an onboarding strategy
Process
We handle communications, with the processes and resources needed to engage and educate suppliers and drive adoption
Technology
Get real-time status of each supplier’s progress and performance with visibility and reporting technology
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Better onboarding drives results
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See how customers have benefitted from SPS supplier onboarding
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Why Do Customers Partner With SPS?
We Handle the Heavy Lifting
"What separated SPS from the beginning was their outreach to our vendors. SPS is motivated by the same thing we are, which is to get a high compliance rate. SPS does the heavy lifting on both vendor compliance and project management."
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Why Do Customers Partner With SPS?
Quick Onboarding Allows for Faster Speed-to-Market
"In 2016, working with SPS, we converted 97% of our vendors to EDI in three months. SPS has a dedicated team that continues to help us onboard new vendors all around the world. And now a vendor is able to trade with us within 48 hours of signing a trading agreement, allowing us to beat speed-to-market and giving us a significant benefit over competitors in the market."
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