SPS Commerce Announces New Product Innovations Enabling Retailers and Brands to Meet the Needs of Evolving Supply Chains
New products and capabilities to address four of the biggest forces shaping the future of supply chain collaboration
“The landscape is shifting, and it can feel impossible to keep up,” said
Trend 1: AI-Powered Supply Chain Orchestration
Businesses across global commerce are looking to AI as a tool that fuels the operating system of their supply chains. AI is now orchestrating inventory, forecasting demand, and coordinating vendors at machine speed to reduce errors and delays.
Shared data is at the heart of AI-enabled supply chain automation.
By aligning with the standards advanced through onX,
Trend 2: Omnichannel Precision At-Scale
Consumers now expect every channel to deliver at the same speed and accuracy they grew to depend on in recent years. Retailers are fulfilling orders through stores, distribution centers, ecommerce platforms, marketplaces, and drop-ship partners all at once. This creates new pressure on trading partners, who must keep information precise and up to date across a growing number of systems and order types.
To support this shift,
PDF Order Automation – Many businesses still receive purchase orders through email. PDF Order Automation converts PDF orders into ERP-ready digital transactions, enabling trading partners to respond to orders faster and maintain accuracy as omnichannel volume increases.
Trend 3: The Great Rewiring of Trade
Companies across retail and manufacturing are shifting away from single-source supply networks toward more regional and diversified models. This transition introduces new partners, new geographies, and new layers of complexity. As production footprints shift, both retailers and suppliers must stay aligned with partners they have never worked with before and maintain visibility into performance across more tiers of the supply chain.
SPS Commerce Relationship Center – enables companies to bring on new partners and expand into new regions. It streamlines onboarding, reduces time to revenue, and keeps both sides aligned during transitions, so disruptions are minimized. SPS Relationship Center gives retailers and suppliers a shared space to exchange item data, compliance requirements, and operational information
Every step of the supply chain is under scrutiny, meaning Manufacturers are also rewiring their own supply networks as they add new raw material providers, component suppliers, and production partners. The SPS Commerce Manufacturing Suite helps manufacturers improve the performance of their upstream supplier networks. By improving visibility into quality, timeliness, and production reliability, the solution supports more resilient manufacturing operations as companies diversify their supply bases.
Trend 4: The Adaptive Commerce Era
Retailers and suppliers are operating in a market where demand patterns shift frequently and often without warning. Promotions, regional preferences, supply constraints, and emerging consumer trends can all create sudden changes in what moves, where it sells, and how quickly inventory needs to be replenished. Traditional planning cycles are no longer enough to keep supply and demand aligned.
Companies are moving toward a more adaptive operating model that relies on ongoing adjustments, shared visibility, and faster recognition of performance changes across the network. This approach helps retailers and suppliers respond more effectively to short term swings while still maintaining financial and operational discipline.
Performance Dashboard, as a new capability within SPS’s Supply Chain Performance Suite, givesretailers and suppliers a shared view of the operational indicators that matter most during periods of shifting demand. It highlights fill rates, on-time performance, compliance status, and inventory patterns so trading partners can proactively identify issues and adjust before they affect shelf availability. As promotions, shifting regional preferences, and supply disruptions add risk for volatility, the Performance Dashboard helps trading partners stay aligned on what is selling and where support is needed.
Billable Overages - helps suppliers protect revenue when rapid changes in demand result in mismatches between what was ordered, shipped, or invoiced. This capability uses automated checks to identify overages that should be billed back to retailers and provides the information needed to address issues quickly. This ensures that suppliers stay whole during volatile demand cycles and that financial records remain consistent across both sides of the partnership.
Svatek continued: “AI orchestration is the key enabler that propels brands, retailers, 3PLs, carriers, and all supply chain participants to harness and maximize these trends. Regional supply chains will cut lead times, clean data flows will enable rapid AI-driven decisions, and stores will become micro-fulfillment centers near customers. Together, businesses will be able to meet instant commerce expectations.”
For more information about the trends or new products, visit https://www.spscommerce.com/sps-innovation-drop/jan-2026/.
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