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Camping World Automates Its Supply Chain with SPS Commerce's Community Enablement and Hosted EDI Services.


MINNEAPOLIS -- RV and Camping Supercenter Retailer to Streamline Operations with Suppliers

SPS (Standby Power System) A UPS system that switches to battery backup upon detection of power failure. See UPS.

SPS - Symbolic Programming System. Assembly language for IBM 1620.
 Commerce, the leader in hosted EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect.  software, announced today that Camping World, the world's largest retailer of RV accessories, supplies and services, will modernize mod·ern·ize  
v. mo·dern·ized, mo·dern·iz·ing, mo·dern·iz·es

v.tr.
To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update.

v.intr.
To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style.
 its supply chain using SPS Commerce's Community Enablement and hosted EDI services. To automate the order management process by Camping Worlds' spring ordering season, SPS' Community Enablement campaign will target to enable Camping World's 150 vendors by April. The enablement program includes the opportunity for Camping World suppliers to utilize SPS Commerce's EDI Testing Service or one of its hosted transaction services to meet Camping World's electronic order management requirements, including purchase orders, invoices, Advance Ship Notices (ASNs) and bar code labels.

"In the past year Camping World had outgrown its paper-based ordering system and needed the efficiencies that came with EDI," said Chad Selvidge, senior vice president of marketing and merchandising at Camping World. "We selected SPS Commerce to perform all of our EDI operations and execute a campaign to electronically enable or certify cer·ti·fy  
v. cer·ti·fied, cer·ti·fy·ing, cer·ti·fies

v.tr.
1.
a. To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine.

b.
 more than 150 suppliers. As a hosted service, SPS Commerce can quickly execute both initiatives, while allowing us to remain focused on our business. And, with 13 percent of our suppliers already connected to other retailers via SPSCommerce.net, we already have a great start."

Camping World has 41 retail locations and two collision repair centers. The nationwide retailer offers 8,000 products geared toward the RVing community through its retail stores, extensive mail-order catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C.  and online shopping network. Camping World repair and service centers staff trained professionals adept at installing or repairing any product purchased at Camping World stores such as accessories, appliances and other equipment for RVs or towed vehicles.

By automating its order management system, Camping World will receive electronic order and shipment confirmations to ensure order accuracy, on-time delivery and confirmed pricing. Their EDI transactions will also provide the company with an audit trail of detailed information to better manage and avoid errant er·rant  
adj.
1. Roving, especially in search of adventure: knights errant.

2. Straying from the proper course or standards: errant youngsters.

3.
 orders with suppliers.

"We are pleased to welcome Camping World and its suppliers to our community," said Archie Black, chief executive officer of SPS Commerce. "Growing retailers, like Camping World, are finding that they can reap the benefits of an automated order management system without the hassle and high cost by using a hosted EDI service. Our professional EDI experts are looking forward to another highly successful enrollment campaign and working with Camping World and its suppliers."

About Camping World

Since 1966, Camping World, www.campingworld.com, has grown from one store at Beech Bend Park Beech Bend Park is an amusement park, campground and automobile race track located in Warren County, Kentucky, United States, not far from the city of Bowling Green.  in Bowling Green Bowling Green.

1 City (1990 pop. 40,641), seat of Warren co., S Ky., on the Barren River; inc. 1812. It is a shipping and marketing center for an area producing tobacco, corn, livestock, and dairy items.
, KY to 41 locations and 350 service bays nationwide and is still growing. Our single 16-page black and white catalog has expanded to 12 full-color issues each year. Today, 41 locations with more on the way, an award-winning website, more than 25 million catalogs and sale flyers distributed annually make Camping World the world's largest retailer of RV accessories, supplies and services. For additional information, please contact Camping World at 800-626-3636 or visit www.campingworld.com.

About SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce is the leading provider of Hosted EDI Services to the retail and distribution supply chain. Through its online service platform, SPSCommerce.net delivers technologies like EDI, UPC (Universal Product Code) The standard bar code printed on retail merchandise, which is administered by GS1 US, Brussels, Belgium and Lawrenceville, NJ (www.gs1.org).  Catalogs, Item Synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission.

(2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization.

(3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP.
 and Online Ordering sites. SPS Commerce dramatically lowers the setup and on-going costs, along with the time and risks of traditional EDI software by providing a superior alternative to complicated, lengthy and expensive traditional software deployments Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.

The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them.
. Today, more than 9,000 companies are outsourcing their EDI to SPS Commerce. SPSCommerce.net is widely used by companies running a variety of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer.  systems including Oracle, NetSuite, SAP, Epicor, Great Plains, QuickBooks, Macola, MAS 90/200 & 500, Microsoft Business Solutions applications, Peachtree and many more. SPS Commerce is headquartered in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com.

SPS Commerce is a registered trademark of SPS Commerce Inc. SPSCommerce.net and the SPS Commerce logo are the property of SPS Commerce, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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