by SPS Australia Blog Team | 26 Nov 2015 | Fundamentals
Fulfilment EDI typically happens across an EDI network, which many still refer to by its pre-internet era name of ‘Value-Added Network’ or VAN. A Value-Added Network is a hosted service over which 2+ companies share data for collaborative business...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 17 Nov 2015 | Fundamentals, Products
‘Product Activity Data,’ usually called PAD data, is a standardised set of information for providing trading partners with product SKU activity figures such as sales rates, complementary product sales, inventory on-hand and on-order, price, item description, and more....
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 16 Nov 2015 | Fundamentals, Products, Suppliers
WebForms gives users the ability to trade by EDI via a web browser. Mimicking the hardcopy documents otherwise used, such as purchase orders and invoices, WebForms stands between fully manual processes and completely integrated fulfilment. The WebForms interface has...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 9 Nov 2015 | Fundamentals
As fulfilment and retail business intelligence experts, SPS Commerce regularly makes a business case for implementing fulfilment EDI. However because we’re typically speaking with the business process owners – rather than IT professionals – we also often need to...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 2 Nov 2015 | Market
Melbourne Cup Day has never been so popular! The past few years have seen attendance at racing functions grow beyond Melbourne’s famous Flemington Racecourse, with most (if not all) Australian racetracks hosting Melbourne Cup and Derby Day functions. Although some...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 27 Oct 2015 | Company, Products
The SPS Commerce Retail Network has long been the gold standard as THE go-to source for retailers, suppliers and logistics companies in North America and elsewhere looking to seamlessly connect with each other to provide consumers an outstanding omnichannel...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 25 Oct 2015 | Grocery, Retailers, Suppliers
Research released last week shows that the online grocery sector remains small but growing, likely poised for speedy development in the coming 12 months. Of the 12.8 million regular Australian grocery buyers, only 3% (389,000 people) shop for grocery items online...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 9 Oct 2015 | Retailers
Not long ago the trade press was full of talk that ‘showrooming’ would kill department stores, big-box retailers, and especially specialist stores such as camera shops and furniture stores. The overwhelming concern was that consumers would decide what...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 8 Oct 2015 | Retailers, Suppliers
A common misconception about Electronic Data Interchange – typically known by its acronym EDI – is that after a supplier is connected to one retailer, that it will be simple to connect to others. The misconception being that retailers have some form of...
by SPS Australia Blog Team | 28 Sep 2015 | Products, Retailers
Item detail the next frontier in omnichannel optimisation Contacts throughout the retail supply chain – be they retailers, suppliers, or consumers – have consistently reported that sales go up in direct correlation to the volume of product information or...
