Multi Party

Connecting the Global Supply Chains

Suppliers are outsourcing many supply chain functions from international sourcing to manufacturing to warehouse management. These trusted business partners become extensions of the supplier business and operate on their behalf almost every day to fulfill their retail customers’ orders accurately and efficiently.

Inter-company communication via EDI is not just a convenience, it is critical to the supplier’s bottom-line and to their retail customers’ satisfaction. Today’s outsourcing and globalization trends require multi-party supply chains to:

  • Collaborate between numerous individuals and companies to deliver the right product to their retail customers.
  • Accommodate order and shipping changes at any point in the cycle.
  • Be accessible to all using Internet technology to overcome physical and language barriers, connect disparate systems, and allow even the most non-technical users to access and use a business application.

Improved Visibility Across All Trading Partners

With SPS Commerce’s Software-as-a-Service EDI service, third-party supply chain partners such as third party logistics or warehouses (3PLs), brokers, carriers, factors, freight forwarders, QA firms, and international sourcing companies can become connected and perform restricted tasks on a supplier’s behalf using their online EDI account from SPS Commerce. These activities may include purchase order forwarding, on-site label printing and affixing, and sending Advance Ship Notices (ASNs).

These improvements offer better visibility to the actual order status to both manufacturer and the retailer, and eliminate many manual processes that can take days out of the order fulfillment process.

By empowering trusted third parties to electronically receive or send EDI documents, and create and/or print labels onsite, suppliers and their retail customers benefit by:

  • Greater visibility on orders for the retailer and supplier
  • More accurate ASNs
  • Fewer charge-backs or shipping errors
  • Correct labels for streamlined shipping and receiving

SaaS Makes EDI Accessible

When some companies outsourced portions of their global supply chain, they often do not ask how to integrate with these remote partners. It is simply too hard, too expensive, and/or too daunting to even broach the topic using current enterprise software solutions.

With SPS’ SaaS EDI offerings, these same organizations can consider what used to be impossible, as a real and proven possibility in use by dozens of corporations. There are secure and effective means to enable trusted business partners to transact business tasks on your behalf electronically.




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