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Distributors

The SPICE™ Supply Chain Collaboration Platform gives distributors one platform for both sides of the business: manufacturers and suppliers upstream, contractors, businesses and retailers downstream, with carriers and 3PLs moving goods on both sides.

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Orchestrate buying, selling and logistics on one platform

Connect large supplier and customer networks while reusing product, order and shipment context across both sides.

You buy from manufacturers and sell to contractors, businesses and retailers. Every promise you make downstream depends on a promise someone made to you upstream. Your supply chain is your customer experience, and for a distributor it runs in both directions at once.

Shared P2P and O2C architecture
Every supplier and customer channel
Logistics running through buy and sell flows
Add processes in any order

Representative solution pattern

A representative pattern, not a customer case study. Suppliers connect by EDI, API, portal and documents. Customers connect by EDI, API, SPICE Trade™ and SPICE Digital Document Service™. Carriers and 3PLs collaborate on shipments and warehouse activity across both sides. Your ERP stays the system of record.

Govern the buy side Connect manufacturers and non-EDI suppliers through one P2P model.
Digitize the sell side Serve customers through EDI and a connected SPICE Trade™ or SPICE Digital Document Service™ channel.
Coordinate carrier and 3PL events Connect transportation and warehouse status to both transaction sides.
Reuse order and product context Keep supplier, customer and product information connected through the platform.

Start anywhere, go anywhere: buying, selling and logistics share one set of business rules, product data and support, so each process you add reuses what is already in place.

The SPICE™ products distributors use

SPICE Web OMS™

Connects manufacturers and suppliers that aren’t on EDI through one process with your EDI suppliers: confirmations, changes, ASNs and invoices.

SPICE Trade™

Gives contractors and business customers a self-serve way to order, with their own catalog and contracted pricing.

SPICE Digital Document Service™

Turns emailed and PDF orders into validated, ERP-ready transactions.

SPICE iKompli™

Certifies EDI suppliers and customers against your rules.

SPICE Catalog™

Keeps supplier product data accurate for buying and selling.

SPICE Insight™

Shows each order’s lifecycle and exceptions, from supplier PO to customer delivery.

SPICE Connect™

Onboards and supports trading partners on every side.

SpicY™ is built in. Your team can ask in plain language which customer orders are waiting on a supplier confirmation, and see the evidence behind the answer.

A change in the business creates a chance to close the gaps

ERP migration or new enterprise architecture
Trading partner network expansion or M&A
Digital transformation or vendor compliance requirements
Manual onboarding, order entry or exception follow-up

IT and architecture leaders evaluate the platform with operations, supply chain, branch and inside sales stakeholders, because both halves of the business have a stake.

The SPICE™ platform

The SPICE™ platform for distributors

Every part runs on one platform, linked to your ERP. Select any part to explore it.

Your ERPWMS · TMS · OMS stay the system of record

SuppliersProcure-to-pay SPICE Web OMS™Supplier collaboration without EDI

SPICE™Supply Chain Collaboration Platform

SPICE DDS™Documents in, transactions out SPICE Catalog™Product data in, validated SPICE iKompli™Trading partner certification

SPICE Insight™Visibility across every transaction SPICE Connect™The managed team around it

Customers, dealers & retailersOrder-to-cash SPICE Trade™B2B ordering for non-EDI customers

Carriers & 3PLsLogistics

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is EDI for distributors?

EDI for distributors means exchanging orders, acknowledgments, shipment notices and invoices electronically with manufacturers upstream and customers downstream. SPICE™ handles EDI on both sides and gives trading partners not on EDI a web, spreadsheet or document-based way to take part, all in one governed process.

Can one platform really handle both suppliers and customers?

Yes. SPICE™ runs procure-to-pay with suppliers and order-to-cash with customers on the same platform, with logistics running through both. Product data, business rules, visibility and support are shared, so the second side doesn't mean a second vendor or a second integration project.

Do we have to move both sides at once?

No. Start anywhere, go anywhere: you can begin with any process and add others in any order. Each one reuses the product data, rules and support already in place.

Our customers are used to calling us. Will they order online?

Customers who want it get a self-serve way to order with their own catalog and pricing in SPICE Trade™. Those who keep emailing POs can: SPICE Digital Document Service™ turns their documents into validated orders, so your team stops re-keying either way.

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Orchestrate buying, selling and logistics together

Review how one platform can connect supplier, customer and logistics processes across your distribution business with the SPICE™ team.

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