Olympia Sports To Transform Supply Chain With Integration And Catalog Services From SPS Commerce
--Suppliers Will Seamlessly Conduct Transactions and Update
Product Information Electronically Via Hosted Internet Service--
St. Paul, Minn., February 11, 2002 - SPS Commerce, the leading Supply
Chain Integration Service provider, today announced an agreement to
provide both its Buyer-Managed Inventory and Item Maintenance Catalog
hosted Internet services to Olympia Sports. Olympia Sports is a service
and family oriented retail sporting goods chain with 84 stores in the
Northeast United States.
"Driving down operational costs is essential to surviving and growing
any retail business in today`s market," said Dick Coffey, president of
Olympia Sports. "Utilizing a hosted solution such as SPS will enable us
to operate in a smarter, more efficient manner and cut costs out of our
supply chain."
Olympia will implement the Buyer-Managed Inventory service to
electronically enable suppliers who normally conduct business via the
fax, phone or mail. Providing order visibility for both Olympia and the
supplier, the Buyer-Managed Inventory Service helps decrease duplicate
orders, shorten delivery times and payment cycles and improve customer
service ability. The Item Maintenance Catalog service will update
Olympia`s back-end systems with the most recent product content from all
of its supply chain partners through synchronization agent technology.
Olympia`s suppliers will also be able to tailor information updates for
Olympia to match their own back-end operational environments with SPS`
browser-based edit and load tools.
"Improving operational efficiencies while reducing costs is at the
heart of each of our services," said Jim Frome, executive vice president
and chief strategy officer of SPS Commerce. "Olympia is providing its
suppliers with a cost-effective manner to advance business practices
while becoming electronic supply chain partners, which will yield mutual
benefits in the near and long term future."
About Olympia Sports
Olympia Sports is a service and family oriented retail sporting goods
company featuring a broad assortment of national brand merchandise in
sports equipment, fitness equipment and apparel, athletic footwear,
popular sports/leisure wear and accessories. Through carefully planned
marketing strategies, we have produced a successful chain of 84 stores
in the Northeast, with plans for future growth.
It is our mission to be a profitable, growth oriented sporting goods
company with high image, dominant stores and cutting edge product.
Dedicated to customer service and satisfaction while striving for
excellence and maintaining a high level of employee development and
morale.
About SPS Commerce
SPS Commerce is the leading Supply Chain Integration Service provider.
The Company specializes in helping large enterprises optimize their
supply chains by providing transaction management, application
integration and supply chain services to their small- and mid-size
trading partners via a hosted Internet service. It has helped key
enterprises, including W.W. Grainger, Target Corp., REI and Dura
Automotive, electronically enable and integrate over 35,000 small and
mid-sized trading partners into their e-supply chain. SPS Commerce is
headquartered in St. Paul, MN. For more information, visit the Company
at www.spscommerce.com or call (651) 603-4400.
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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