SPS Commerce expands SPSCommerce.net. (New Products).

SPS Commerce, a supply chain integration service provider, has announced enhancements to SPSCommerce.net. The service, designed to help retailers and distributors electronically enable more than 40,000 suppliers into supply chains, was enhanced in three areas: Enablement, Catalogs and Transactions. On the supplier enablement front, SPS is introducing four portal templates (or portlets), each tailored to a distinct type of enablement program, which helps automate and simplify the supplier experience during setup and certification. It also assists the retail and distribution hub in delivering a more concise message about the program and managing progress of its suppliers' integration efforts. The four portlets help take supplier enablement one step closer to a "self-service" setup and certification effort across four types of programs: extending integration for either catalog or transaction data to a new group of previously unconnected suppliers, extending integration for either catalog or transaction data to a n additional order management process, deepening the level of integration by adding additional documents sets across a group of suppliers that are already integrated and providing ad-hoc supplier enablement of new suppliers that make up the standard monthly "churn" of suppliers that retailers and distributors realize as part of their standard business process. www.spscommerce.com/651-603-5500