Merchandising strategy is hard, don’t do it alone

No store is an island, and no brand functions solely on their own. It takes a large village of people to keep a retail brand’s stores running properly, inventory flowing in and out of the store and a lot of trusted partners that can help.

From your suppliers and your logistics companies, to your IT providers, to your EDI software vendors, there are a lot of people outside your company who are just as dedicated to seeing you succeed as you are.

SPS Commerce specializes in cloud-based software that can help you create a plan and execute your merchandising strategy. With our suite of robust retail solutions, you can make better decisions, understand sales trends, find new vendors and products, connect with them faster, reduce errors throughout your processes and even make more sales.

SPS data analytics can help you make decisions by using better data. You can monitor the overall health of your organization, track your year-over-year performance, better manage your supply chain and make pre-season plans as well as execute in-season price adjustments. With data analytics, we provide you with a holistic view of your company’s performance, including products, categories, geographies, trends, supplier performance and more. Insights that data reveals can help you make better forecasts and identify new merchandising opportunities based on real data. Learn more about SPS Analytics!

SPS sourcing product can help you find the vendors who have the products you want to stock for your merchandising strategy. You can search for products and filter the results by categories, fulfillment capabilities (e.g. drop shipping), the vendors’ location, their technical capabilities and the services they offer. You can look at a vendor’s profile to see if they’re going to be a suitable partner. And then SPS will test, certify, and onboard your new vendor to make sure they can meet and follow your requirements and policies. Learn more about SPS Sourcing!

The SPS Assortment product works like a product catalog to help add new items and all of their product data quickly to the system. Use this information, directly from the supplier, to ensure accuracy of product descriptions across your sales channels. Satisfy consumer curiosity and clinch the sales by providing customers with all the information they need to make a purchasing decision. Gain the agility you need to add new SKUs quickly and scale your business. Learn more about SPS Assortment!

And our EDI product can help you get connected and doing business with them fast. No more handling actual paperwork, forms and faxes, or emails and attachments. Our electronic data interchange system can automate orders, invoices, and dispatch notes. You can be alerted or alert others when inventory levels fall below a certain level, and you can greatly reduce the chance of paperwork and data entry errors, which ensures your supply chain is flowing smoothly. Fulfillment EDI allows you and your vendor partners to meet the needs of modern consumers through order process management, complex fulfillment models and accelerating your supply chain to meet ongoing needs – none of which can truly be optimized via manual paperwork. Learn more about SPS Fulfillment!

Working with SPS and our various products, we can help you incorporate your partners into your merchandising process, enable better collaboration with your trading partners and keep up with consumer demands. You can find new vendors with the capabilities you need. They can advise you of their best products and show you when you’re exceeding sales goals or aren’t moving enough of a particular line. You can analyze past performance and make future predictions about what your customers want. And you can send documentation back and forth, automatically and with less chance of human mistakes. Manage it all electronically and with automation, reducing errors and costs, improving efficiency.

You can learn more about all of these solutions by contacting one of our sales professionals who will be happy to answer your questions and show you how to improve your store’s merchandising strategy and planning.

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Brandon Pierre

Vice President for Customer Success at SPS Commerce

As a Vice President for Customer Success at SPS, Brandon Pierre’s team works alongside many retailers, distributors and grocers suppliers to develop strategies that involve the exchange of data with trading partner to address their merchandising and supply chain business objectives. With more than 20 years working in and with buying organizations including large and small, he has experienced first-hand the opportunities and challenges of the digital era and how new data exchange capabilities and processes can transform the consumer experience through improved retailer and supplier connections.

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