# Keeping Orders Moving With Trading Partners Shouldn’t Be So Hard

When you and your trading partners can’t act together in real time, it leads to more busy work, lost revenue, long workdays, and tense relationships.

## The Problem

### Disconnected Workflows

Orders, inventory changes, and invoices show up across emails, portals, and systems, making it hard to know what needs action.

### Manual Intervention

Teams copy information between systems to keep orders moving, increasing errors and slowing execution.

### Growth Exposes the Cracks

As volume, partners, or channels increase, manual coordination stops working and delays multiply.

## Why This Problem Exists

These challenges persist because most coordination between companies was never designed to scale. As partners adopt different systems and requirements change, teams are left stitching processes together manually to keep orders flowing.

Over time, this manual coordination becomes labeled as an “EDI problem,” even though the root issue is fragmented execution across systems.

### Different Systems, Different Rules

ERPs, OMS, WMS, and other business systems weren’t designed to talk to each other, leaving teams to bridge the gaps manually.

### Constant Change

Retailer requirements, compliance rules, and market conditions evolve faster than internal teams can adapt.

### One-off Connections

Without a network, every new partner or system requires custom mappings and ongoing maintenance that scale effort instead of reducing it.

### No Shared Signal

Isolated systems surface issues after they happen instead of providing early signals that help teams prevent disruption.

## Keeping Up With Change While Driving Momentum

### Connect

**Foundation Layer**  
A shared foundation keeps order data aligned across partners, so teams don’t have to reconcile updates manually.  
Freeing you from:  
- Reconciling orders across systems just to know what is true  
- Managing conflicting updates from different partners  
- Rebuilding integrations every time something changes

### Orchestrate

**Workflow Automation**  
Automation allows order workflows to progress even when partners operate differently or requirements change.  
What changes:  
- Orders move forward without handoffs and rework  
- Partner-specific requirements are handled consistently  
- Growth does not require adding people to manage exceptions

### Optimize

**Intelligence Layer**  
When systems recognize patterns and respond earlier, teams spend less time fixing the same coordination issues repeatedly.  
What improves:  
- Issues surface before operations are disrupted  
- Repeat breakdowns are recognized and reduced  
- Performance improves as complexity increases

## Measurable Results

When coordination work is removed, integration becomes an advantage instead of a burden.

- **90%**  
  Faster onboarding For new trading partners and systems
- **40%**  
  Reduction in manual data entry across ERP and WMS workflows
- **3-5 weeks**  
  Recovered revenue from invalid deductions through embedded compliance  
  Instead of months to activate new retail channels

## Real Results From Real Customers

**“The fact that SPS could integrate orders into Shopify helped us avoid manual labor for thousands of orders, using a process we could work with.”**  
Ghost Golf | Sporting Goods Brand

### Key Results

- Activated new retail channels in weeks
- Automated order-to-cash workflows
- Increased operational efficiency, reducing manual errors

**“This partnership will allow us to build a future-proof and simple cloud ecosystem, relieve us from EDI change tasks, and keep us up with the evolutions of our ERP.”**  
Barilla | Global Food Manufacturer

### Key Results

- Simplified ERP integration and future-proofed IT architecture
- Eliminated manual EDI updates and compliance tasks

## Related Challenges

### Orders Start Coming from Everywhere

As new sales channels are added, orders, updates, and requirements begin arriving through different systems and portals. Teams are forced to coordinate manually just to keep order flow consistent.

### Small Errors Turn into Lost Revenue

When order, shipment, and invoice data don’t stay aligned across partners, compliance issues surface as chargebacks and deductions. Teams end up attempting to recover revenue after the fact instead of preventing errors upstream.

### Ready to make your systems work together?

Let’s talk about how SPS can eliminate integration complexity and keep your business moving forward.