Dick’s Sporting Goods manages private brand sourcing on the web

Managing the sourcing of private label brands from foreign suppliers is becoming more common among retailers, even for smaller ones. With new web-based systems, they are deriving more cost-saving efficiency and better margins out of their house labels. Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc., a chain of 141 stores in 24 states, is implementing a web-based sourcing and production system from New Generation Computing Inc. to manage production details with real-time communication with its foreign suppliers.

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Dick’s is implementing 11 modules of New Generation’s e-SPS web-based sourcing and production system, which will enable it to manage all product-development tasks, distribute product specifications to vendors and receive real-time updates on the status of merchandise production. The e-SPS system’s modules focus on areas such as product development, RFQs and bids, pre-production planning, production tracking and shipment tracking.

“Dick’s Sporting Goods’ selection of our software is evidence of the movement we’ve seen in the retail community over the past 14 months,” said Alan Brooks, president of NGC.