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SPS Commerce Expands SaaS Trading Partner Platform for the Retail Ecosystem
Expanded offerings leverage pre-built integrations and 10 years of real transactional data to provide additional business intelligence, fulfillment capabilities
Minneapolis — November 21, 2008 — Trading partner integration specialist SPS Commerce has expanded its suite of on-demand solutions that automate functions within the fulfillment cycle for retailers, suppliers and their trading partners.
Over the past 10 years, the SPSCommerce.net platform has connected 37,000 customers to more than 1,300 trading partners, enabling these organizations to automatically integrate their order, shipping and invoicing communications.
New outsourced SaaS services from SPS Commerce include Trading Partner Applications and Trading Partner Intelligence, and Trading Partner Supplies, which are intended to leverage the existing integrations and data to provide additional value.
"SPS' multi-tenant architecture and SaaS delivery model has allowed us to amass into a sizable repository of data via trusted integrations to tens of thousands of firms in the retail ecosystem," said Archie Black, president and CEO of SPS Commerce. "This has provided SPS with a unique opportunity to deliver even higher value SaaS services to our customers."
Service that SPS Commerce now offers to help trading partners work together more effectively include:
Black said that SPS is leveraging it experience of retail industry integration issues and its knowledge of retailers' vendor compliance requirements, along with SPS' hosted technology, to create new on-demand services that address specific challenges in the fulfillment process. "Our expanded focus on applications and intelligence is a natural extension of services that can only be delivered on a SaaS, multi-tenant platform," Black said.
Over the past 10 years, the SPSCommerce.net platform has connected 37,000 customers to more than 1,300 trading partners, enabling these organizations to automatically integrate their order, shipping and invoicing communications.
New outsourced SaaS services from SPS Commerce include Trading Partner Applications and Trading Partner Intelligence, and Trading Partner Supplies, which are intended to leverage the existing integrations and data to provide additional value.
"SPS' multi-tenant architecture and SaaS delivery model has allowed us to amass into a sizable repository of data via trusted integrations to tens of thousands of firms in the retail ecosystem," said Archie Black, president and CEO of SPS Commerce. "This has provided SPS with a unique opportunity to deliver even higher value SaaS services to our customers."
Service that SPS Commerce now offers to help trading partners work together more effectively include:
- Trading partner enablement: trading partner community development programs that allow companies to implement new integrations with trading partners. Services include enablement campaigns and EDI testing.
- Trading partner integration: enables organizations to comply with customers' trading requirements and exchange information electronically. These services include EDI, catalog and online ordering.
- Trading partner applications: help companies process and fulfill orders more efficiently. Services include the Scan & Pack module, labels, packing slips and gift cards.
- Trading partner intelligence: services that use trading partner information to improve sales and operations. Modules are available for suppliers and retailers.
- Trading partner supplies: a one-stop shop for all the equipment and materials needed for a successful retail fulfillment process.
Black said that SPS is leveraging it experience of retail industry integration issues and its knowledge of retailers' vendor compliance requirements, along with SPS' hosted technology, to create new on-demand services that address specific challenges in the fulfillment process. "Our expanded focus on applications and intelligence is a natural extension of services that can only be delivered on a SaaS, multi-tenant platform," Black said.
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