SPS Commerce Hosts 12th Annual Customer Meeting to Discuss Global Retail Supply Chain Trends and Solutions
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 1, 2009– SPS Commerce, the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) trading partner integration center provider, recently hosted its 12th annual customer council meeting at the Marquette Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The invitation-only event welcomed a significant number of retail trading partners, including retailers, distributors, and suppliers, and featured presentations by retail and supply chain executives from Best Buy, Marine Corps Community Services, Pure Fishing and The Sports Authority.
This year’s meeting focused on topics that retail trading partners are challenged with in today’s down economy, including:
- Expanding community development initiatives, domestic and international
- Automating more transactions with trading partners, including retailers, suppliers, 3PLs, carriers, sourcing companies and factories
- Optimizing inventory through supply chain intelligence
- Deploying new item management strategies
- Leveraging the ASN for improved receiving and inventory management
"Today’s retail industry demands that global trading partners work with one another to achieve new efficiencies like never before,” said Archie Black, president and CEO of SPS Commerce. “Many of our customers and other retail experts spoke on how they are improving their fulfillment operations by automating, streamlining, and enhancing their trading partner relationships across the supply chain. Every year, this exchange of ideas and best practices helps our customers outperform their competition and enables SPS Commerce to continue to provide the SaaS supply chain integration and intelligence they need.”
About SPS Commerce
SPS Commerce is a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, 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 suppliers, retailers, distributors and other customers manage and fulfill orders. Our SPSCommerce.net platform features pre-built integrations used by current and new customers alike, spanning 2,700 order management models across 1,300 retailers, grocers and distributors, as well as integrations to over 100 accounting, warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, and packing and shipping applications. More than 35,000 customers across more than 40 countries have used SPSCommerce.net, making it one of the largest trading partner integration centers. SPS Commerce has 35 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.
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