Trading Partner Intelligence Service for Point of Sale

Enhancing Visibility across the Supply Chain

SPS Commerce’s Trading Partner Intelligence service turns complex EDI 852 and other point of sale (POS) data into actionable intelligence, enabling every stakeholder in the supply chain to make more informed business decisions.

Our interactive service provides key metrics that enable suppliers to:

• Understand and improve sales performance by identifying and preventing missed opportunities
• Gain a better understanding of final sell through
• Understand and minimize chargebacks for greater profitability and customer satisfaction
• Analyze key fulfillment metrics across any customer, any region/market/store, any product and any time period
• Improve vendor scorecards by understanding their performance relative to customer expectations.

Delivering proactive Notifications with Executive Alerts
The Trading Partner Intelligence service features Executive Alerts that proactively deliver actionable data about inventory and sales trends.

Executive Alerts provide: Updates to your email inbox or smart device anywhere you have an Internet connection Key information pushed to key users without logging on Customized report options to match your needs Predefined reports for executives and decision makers, including : • Overall retailer sales • Top selling items overall • Top selling items by retailer • Weeks of supply by item by retailer • Items overall - largest % change versus last week • Items by retailer - largest % change versus last week • Any many more

Uniting multiple Sources of Supply Chain Data
SPS Commerce has extensive experience accessing and integrating data from multiple trading partners and multiple IT systems. Our Trading Partner Intelligence service comes with prewired connections to more than 1,300 retailers and distributors as well as tens of thousands of 3PLs, sourcing companies, QA firms, carriers, brokers and other types of trading partners. It also provides seamless integration with prebuilt adapters to major accounting/ERP, warehouse management, and shipping/packing systems. By bringing together multiple data sources, our service gives you a complete, end-to-end view of your supply chain. Your organization can understand fill rates from your warehouse management and sales systems, shipment status data from your logistic partner(s)’s systems and perfect order scorecards from your retail trading partners.

An Outsourced, SaaS Alternative to traditional Software
SPS Commerce’s proven multi-tenant, business-to-business integration services offer a superior alternative to traditional software applications. Our outsourced approach allows you to stay focused on your core competencies rather than on installing and maintaining software.

Based on a multi-tenant architecture, our Trading Partner Intelligence service lets customers take advantage of common hardware, software and
staffing resources to achieve superior reliability, faster implementations and lower total cost of ownership. Its (Software-as-a-Service) SaaS architecture also allows multiple parties in the supply chain to access realtime data from any location via a standard Web browser.

The Trading Partner Intelligence service makes supply chain data available for analysis anywhere in your organization, while providing the flexibility to view data in either summary dashboards or detailed “drill-down” formats. Its highly interactive design allows you to understand major issues and trends, and identify underlying causes, down to the individual transaction.

Integrating Trading Partners around the Globe
SPS Commerce has worked with more than 35,000 organizations to integrate their business systems and processes with trading partners. In our long history of working with CPG suppliers around the globe, we’ve built an extensive repository of data and best practices about how to improve supply chain visibility and efficiency.

SPS Commerce’s Trading Partner Intelligence service leverages our expertise in supply chain integration to deliver critical insight for optimizing supply chain operations and achieving bottom-line results.