Minneapolis-based SPS Commerce is putting more eggs in the SaaS (News - Alert) basket. The SaaS "trading partner integration center provider" says more than 1,000 companies using Sage MAS 90, Sage MAS 200, and Sage MAS 500 ERP have subscribed to its outsourced supply chain integration services, resulting in "more than a million business documents electronically in the past 12 months."

 

SPS Commerce's Electronic Data Interchange and label services can be integrated with MAS 90, MAS 200, and MAS 500 systems to eliminate pesky manual order entry and fulfillment processes. The idea, of course, being to "improve accuracy, boost customer satisfaction, and provide timely communication of purchase orders" and other groovy things up and down the supply chain.

"Suppliers using Sage Software's (News - Alert) ERP have been automating how they send and receive supply chain documents using SPS at an increasing rate," says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. "Volume from our current Sage customer base is up 16 percent."

SPS Commerce officials claim 37,000 customers and pre-built integrations spanning 2,700 fulfillment workflows across 1,300 retailers, grocers and distributors.

Earlier this year TMC (News - Alert) reported that Sage North America announced the general availability of Sage MAS 90 and 200 Extended Enterprise Suite version 1.2, their business management suite designed for SMBs.

The release expands the Customer Relationship Management and fixed asset management capabilities on offer, according to the Sage officials.

Company officials said the product has what they describe as "a unique combination of Enterprise Resource Planning, CRM, fixed asset management and business intelligence functionality," including the embedded business intelligence applications Business Insights Explorer and Business Insights Dashboard.

The product is pitched as having "a number of CRM enhancements to help sales and marketing efforts," such as letting users create and graphically view multiple sales relationships between primary entities, such as a holding company and its subsidiaries, or "many-to-many" relationships where multiple sales representatives sell into various divisions of the same company: "For marketing, professional mass e-mail campaigns can be enhanced with advanced editing and also benefit from a new, multi-language spell checker."