QuickBooks Experts Savage & Associates and SPS Commerce Partner to Deliver Integrated Supply Chain Solutions
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. and MINNEAPOLIS, May 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Savage & Associates, a leading QuickBooks integration firm and certified Intuit Solution Provider, and SPS Commerce (Nasdaq:SPSC), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, today announced a partnership that offers proven supply chain solutions for the QuickBooks community. The joint solution has been successfully deployed for several suppliers in North America and is helping those organizations automate and streamline e-commerce and traditional order fulfillment cycles.
"Our firms' years of experience have shown us the importance of customer service," said Jim Savage, president and founder of Savage & Associates. "SPS Commerce not only offers a cloud-based EDI service with thousands of prebuilt integrations, but the solution is backed by a real commitment to customer service. They offer personalized and accessible customer support from a named representative that understands my customers' business. This is unique and sets SPS Commerce apart."
Founded in 1999, Savage & Associates has worked with hundreds of QuickBooks users to advance their business. Founder Jim Savage has been a QuickBooks Pro Advisor since 1999 and specializes in marketing to the mid-market channel. The company is certified in QuickBooks Enterprise and QuickBase in the ISP channel, and is comprised of employees, consultants and value-added-resellers with decades of QuickBooks experience. SPS Commerce's cloud-based supply chain services improve the way suppliers, retailers, distributors and 3PLs build their trading partner relationships and manage and fulfill orders with pre-built integrations using 3,000 order management models across 1,500 retailers, grocers and distributors. SPS' Retail Universe, a social network for the supply chain, is designed to help the community's 40,000 members form new business partnerships based on product or integration requirements.
"Our joint customers have been delighted with the expertise of Jim Savage and his team," said Archie Black, CEO of SPS Commerce. "They offer the business and technical knowledge to understand an organization's technical environment and business challenges, and can drive new efficiencies. We are delighted to partner with Savage & Associates for the QuickBooks community."
Learn more about Savage & Associates and SPS Commerce's solutions for QuickBooks at Scaling New Heights on June 17-20 in Nashville, Tennessee.
About Savage & Associates
Savage and Associates is led by Jim Savage, an Advanced Certified Pro Advisor. Prior to becoming a Pro Advisor, Jim was an IT director for a major health insurance carrier and has been involved in large scale IT projects throughout his career. He is now specializing in EDI and eCommerce clients and integration with QuickBooks. He has referred to himself as "The QuickBooks Guy" since he started, hence the name of the website. He is a nationally recognized speaker on accounting and eCommerce integration and his firm has an established network of experts in this area.
About SPS Commerce
SPS Commerce is a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions and the Retail Universe community, providing integration, collaboration, connectivity, visibility and data analytics to thousands of customers worldwide. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a Software-as-a-Service model to improve the way the retail supply chain community of suppliers, retailers, distributors and other customers build their trading partner relationships and manage and fulfill orders. Our Retail Universe hosts profiles of thousands of retail supply chain members, and enables retailers, suppliers and 3PLs to find, connect and form new business partnerships based on product or integration requirements. The SPSCommerce.net platform features pre-built integrations used by current and new customers alike, spanning 3,000 order management models across 1,500 retailers, grocers and distributors, as well as integrations to over 100 accounting, warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, and packing and shipping applications. More than 45,000 customers across more than 40 countries have used SPSCommerce.net, making it one of the largest trading partner integration centers. SPS Commerce has achieved 45 consecutive quarters of increased revenues and is headquartered in Minneapolis. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com or www.retailuniverse.com.
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SPS Commerce
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