Overview

Integrating a retailer's supply chain is a critical first step to gain efficiencies and streamline processes. However, most retailers have been unable to overcome the obstacles of establishing communications with individual suppliers, each with different capabilities and systems. CommerceHub simplifies the integration of many disparate suppliers by offering a single, universal connection to all of a retailer's trading partners.

Challenge

While many retailers have set high priority initiatives to electronically integrate their suppliers, most have failed to achieve their objectives. Because each company builds its systems and processes to accommodate its own unique business needs, there is an inherent incompatibility between retailer and supplier systems. Legacy infrastructure, inconsistent file formats, and widely varying supplier capabilities slows vendor adoption and limits the ability to quickly and painlessly bring up new partners.

Solution

CommerceHub enables retailers to quickly and easily integrate with each of their suppliers without having to individually connect and adapt to each partner's specific capabilities. Acting as a universal translation platform between disparate systems, a retailer can communicate in one consistent manner with all of its suppliers, regardless of their systems or capabilities. By providing multiple options for plug and play supplier connectivity, CommerceHub has leveled the playing field to enable even the smallest specialty supplier to achieve 100% compliance with a retailer's requirements. This allows merchandisers to identify profitable opportunities, and focus on moving products instead of moving data.