REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Nov. 2, 2009 (Marketwire) --

REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/02/09 -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

• SPS Commerce, the leader in multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) supply chain integration, providing connectivity, visibility and intelligence to thousands of trading partners around the globe, uses Oracle® Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI Suite EE) to deliver the SPS Trading Partner Intelligence service, Oracle announced today.
• The SPS Trading Partner Intelligence service is a 100 percent web-based, multi-tenant business intelligence application which offers fact-based information to its 37,000 customers to help them optimize their retail supply chains.

Intelligent SaaS Service for Retail Trading Partners

• Minneapolis, Minn.-based SPS Commerce offers supply chain services to trading partners in the retail ecosystem, including retailers, distributors, suppliers, 3PLs, transportation companies and others, replacing manual fulfillment processes with automated and integrated operations, including full integration support for Oracle ERP applications.
• SPS Commerce's SaaS platform supports a complete set of transactions exchanged between tens of thousands of trading partners daily. In late 2008, SPS Commerce formally released Trading Partner Intelligence powered by Oracle BI Suite EE to offer customers unmatched insight and visibility into key supply chain performance metrics that were previously very difficult to attain.
• SPS Commerce developed a number of Trading Partner Intelligence modules designed specifically for retailers, suppliers, logistics providers and carriers to improve their decision making processes, including:
• Helping suppliers gain a better understanding of product sell-through with interactive analysis of point-of-sale data from retail customers.
  
  
• Proactively identifying in-store issues, such as out-of-stock and surplus inventory situations while improving forecast accuracy and optimizing inventory levels.
  
  
• Understanding supply chain bottlenecks for suppliers and logistics firms with interactive analysis of fulfillment issues such as late or incomplete shipments.
  
  
• Providing retailers with visibility into detailed vendor performance and compliance analyses, as well as enabling vendor collaboration to identify continuous performance improvements.
  
  
• SPS completed the implementation on time and within budget, providing the scalability needed to deploy the platform to customers quickly.