Resources Case Studies

Pandigital has used SPS Commerce’s Trading Partner Intelligence service to provide weekly sales information and POS analysis from the majority of its retail customers to its sales teams. The SPS service equips Pandigital’s sales managers, analysts, and outside sales representatives with near real-time information on inventory levels, leading to proactive discussions with their retail customers to accurately determine when products should be replenished or marked down.

Solution: Trading Partner Intelligence
Read the Pandigital case study

John Louis Inc. uses SPS Commerce EDI services to manage 65% of their order volume, and has integrated our services into their QuickBooks solution. With SPS, they've reduced a process that used to take hours into just seconds!

Solution: SPSCommerce.net
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Eastman was looking for a proven integration company that it could trust. Eastman found SPS Commerce to be larger than expected with a large and experienced staff, as well as a true desire to work with Eastman not just to secure their business but to earn it each and every month with superior performance.

Solution: SPSCommerce.net
Read the Eastman Outdoors case study

As a third party logistics provider, Logistic Edge partnered with 3PL Central and SPS Commerce to process orders and turn inventory more rapidly for their customers without the need for additional IT systems or staff.

Solution: SPSCommerce.net
Read the Logistic Edge case study

To support its growth, SPARQ recognized that Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) was a requirement to engage with large retail and catalog sporting goods trading partners. SPARQ wanted the capability to quickly enable electronic trading with their large retail customers without having to add dedicated staff.

Solution: Outsourced EDI and NetSuite’s Saas ERP
Read the Sparq Products case study

Fashion Angels’ new mass merchandiser retail clients brought growth – each week it receives more than 1,000 purchase orders -- as well as more complex routing, shipping and billing requirements that necessitated fully automated Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Within two months, SPSCommerce.net was integrated with Open System's TRAVERSE enabling Fashion Angels to send and receive their purchase orders and invoices in a fully automated fashion.
Read the Fashion Angels case study

Spencer’s, a retail icon, has been focused on delivering humor, enjoyment and entertainment to its core 18-24 year old guest for over 60 years. Originally founded in 1947 as a mail order catalog, Spencer’s opened its first mall store in 1964. Today Spencer’s operates over 550 locations throughout the United States, Canada and online. Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results:Currently runs more than 96% of all orders, domestic and foreign via EDI
Read the Spencer's case study

Founded in 2006, the company is experiencing hyper-growth rates by introducing innovative products that meet the needs of on-the-go consumers for convenient energy, any time. Its products include energy drinks, gum and fruit chew candies.
Solution: Partnered with SPS Commerce and NetSuite
Results: Mad Croc has reduced costs and decreased personnel requirements for order processing and invoicing.
Read the Mad Croc case study

Kamino operates 32 facilities in major global markets offering American retail vendors a flexible, outsourced solution to the traditional fixed costs of physical, company-owned warehouses as well as global visibility into their supply chain. Kamino outsourced their EDI services to SPS.

Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: Enabled its customers to focus more on selling their products rather than not worrying about logistics, fines, mis-ships and chargebacks.
Read the Kamino case study

Jerky Snack Brands sells its products to large and small retailers including Academy Sports, Ace Hardware, Kroger, SuperValu, and Target. They choose SPS Commerce’s Software-as-a-Service (Saas) integrated EDI solution. Jerky needed a solution that could be quickly manage all of its customers, had rapid scalability, provided fast compliance and was easy to use.

Solution: Integrated EDI
Results: Integration with MAS 200, multi-tenant architecture
Read the Jerky Snack Brands case study

Rapala processes 33,000 orders, supports 11,600 active SKUs, and schedules and ships 3.2 million pounds of freight with ship-to addresses in every state per year. Rapala’s chose to outsource their EDI to SPS Commerce and as a result has lowered EDI costs and remained focused on running their business.

Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: Rapala reduced EDI costs by eliminating software maintenance, as well as their EDI server.
Read the Normark Rapala case study

Arena has EDI connections with 21 trading partners via SPS Commerce and can bring on new trading partners in one or two days. These partners range from small mom-and-pop western apparel shops that often don’t have their own EDI capabilities, to large retailers such as Cabela’s, Burlington Coat Factory, Dillards, and LL Bean.

Solution: Integrated EDI
Results: Integration with Oracle, rapidly connect with new trading partners
Read the Arena Brands case study

With increasing compliance requirements from cross docking and direct-to-consumer models, Vexilar found itself spending more and more time doing EDI. Today, Vexilar has integrated its highest EDI volume customers onto SPS’ integrated service to eliminate manual entry of these EDI transactions.

Solution: Hosted EDI
Results: Integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP
Read the Vexilar case study

Based on the recommendation of one of their trading partners, Appleseed's begin using SPS Commerce’s outsourced EDI services as a direct link between Appleseed's, their international sourcing agents, and their factories in China.

Solution: Outsourced EDI, Barcode Label
Results: Connected with all sourcing agents in China
Read the Appleseeds case study

Over time, Nambés existing EDI system had become a burden on its IT department. Many hours were spent maintaining the internal B2B integration system so it would send and receive its order, shipping and invoicing documents electronically with retail customers. With outsourced EDI services from SPS Commerce, Nambé has eliminated its EDI headaches.

Solution: Outsourced EDI
Resluts: Reduced chargebacks by 50% by outsourcing its EDI
Read the Nambé case study

As a CPG vendor to a growing number of retailers, EDI quickly became a requirement of doing business for Cinder Block. In 2003, Cinder Block made their first EDI connection to PacSun using SPS Commerce’s outsourced EDI service. Since then, they have been expanding their EDI use with only their existing non-technical staff.

Solution: Outsourced EDI, Universal Catalog Service
Results: Connections to trading partner with no additional staff
Read the Cinder Block case study

Signatures quickly learned that EDI was a requirement for business. Therefore, they purchased an EDI software package, its associated infrastructure requirements (hardware, VAN, etc.) and trained its personnel. However, the EDI demands of their customers quickly outpaced this solution and Signatures was faced with a decision - upgrade to another software solution or outsource to a hosted EDI service.

Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: Adding new EDI connections with ease
Read the Signatures Network case study

WMH decided it was too reliant on internal resources for such a critical application as EDI. By replacing its internal EDI software with SPS’ hosted EDI solution, WMH eliminated its dependency on internal resources and is leveraging the best EDI professionals and technology on the market. The outsourced EDI service is directly integrated with WMH’s SAP R/3 system.

Solution: Outsourced EDI
Results: EDI integration with SAP, 40+ retail trading partner connections completed
Read the WMH Tool Group case study

Having performed several EDI enablement programs with Northern Tool and their vendor, SPS Commerce worked with Northern to identify their EDI needs and timeframes, SPS Commerce worked around the clock with vendors to test, re-test and enable vendors as needed to meet the deadline.

Solution: Supplier Enablement Services
Results: 95% of vendors in full EDI compliance
Read the Northern Tool + Equipment case study