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Reaves and Company Automates Its Electronic Trading with SPS Commerce's Hosted EDI Services.


MINNEAPOLIS -- Drop Cloth and Paint Sundries sun·dries  
pl.n.
Articles too small or numerous to be specified; miscellaneous items.



[From sundry.
 Supplier Performs 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.  with All Pro, Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services.

Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box
 and Sherwin-Williams Without the Time and Expense of a Traditional Software

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 Supply Chain Integration Services for small and mid-sized businesses, announced today that Reaves and Company, a leading provider of drop cloths and paint sundries since 1965, is expanding its use of SPS Commerce's hosted Electronic Data Interchange See EDI.

(application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce.
 (EDI) services. The company is using these services to electronically trade order, inventory and shipping documents with a growing number of retail customers. As a service offering, SPS Commerce eliminates the time and expense of implementing an in-house EDI and enables organizations to more rapidly comply with customers' requirements. Today, Reaves is meeting the electronic compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds).  of All Pro, Home Depot and Sherwin-Williams for purchase orders, shipping notices, inventory status updates, planning and forecasting.

"Our commitment to customer satisfaction led Reaves to becoming EDI-enabled earlier this year," said Kelli Horner of Reaves. "By automating our order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment  process and eliminating fax confirmations, our customers now receive electronic order acknowledgements containing specific information on order fulfillment and shipment dates. Our customers are delighted by the new level of customer service we can now offer to them. By using a hosted service to do our EDI, Reaves was up and running quickly and able to add new customers and transactions with ease. Today we are integrating SPSCommerce.net with our internal accounting system to gain even more efficiencies, thus eliminating the need to hire additional personnel to support our growing number of EDI customers."

"SPS Commerce is pleased to be able to provide mid-tier suppliers, like Reaves, a hosted service that rapidly connects them to their customers with minimal time and expense," said Archie Black, chief executive officer of SPS Commerce. "By making compliance with customers almost effortless, we can help companies focus more of their resources on the production and marketing of their industry leading products."

About SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce is the leading provider of Hosted Integration 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 supply chain integration by providing a superior alternative to complicated, lengthy and expensive traditional software deployments. To date, more than 52,000 manufacturers have used SPSCommerce.net to help integrate to their supply chains of more than 700 retailers and distributors. SPSCommerce.net is widely used and integrated 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 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 651-603- 4400 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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