Your participation is needed.
Help us create a better process for fulfilling orders.
Program Requirements
Benefits & Deadlines
Next Steps
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We need you in order to grow our business.
Moving to electronic order fulfillment will allow us to deliver on our goal to have the right product in the right place at the right time, while also positioning us to be more competitive in today’s evolving landscape. Rather than accommodate multiple different methods for order processing, we will have a standardized solution that will enable us to capture critical business information and allow us to quickly respond to changes.
SPS Commerce is our partner on this project.
They’ve assisted us in designing our new order requirements and will provide support to ensure this process is implemented successfully by us and our suppliers.
SPS Commerce - Who we are and what we do.
Program requirements:
We’re asking you to work with SPS Commerce to utilize one of the following solutions to meet our new electronic requirements. SPS offers services to help you exchange these transactions with us, no matter your current EDI capabilities.
Your options are the following:
Fulfillment
SPS Commerce’s Fulfillment service is an excellent solution if you do not have an EDI system in place today, or if you are unable to meet our business needs through your current EDI service.
Testing & Certification
The SPS Commerce testing service allows you to meet our business requirements using your existing EDI solution or third party provider.
Program Benefits:
Process and deadlines:
Upon Family Dollar submitting a confirmed vendor partner to SPS Commerce, a member of their team will reach out to communicate the solution options and process to become capable of Electronic Order Fulfillment . You will have a 35 day period to become capable of the Electronic requirements by either leveraging SPS Fulfillment solution or completing a testing and certification process of a non-SPS Commerce EDI solution. If you are already capable, you will be able to conduct certification for all mandatory transactions. During this process, if you have not completed implementation within the 35 days, you will be able to utilize the SPS Commerce Fulfillment solution to fulfill these documents until certification is complete.