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Transportation & contract warehousing for distributors

SPICE™ 3PL and carrier EDI for distributors connects the carriers and contract warehouses between a distributor's suppliers and customers, EDI or not, so every tender, shipment status, warehouse transaction and freight invoice is linked to the orders on both sides.

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Logistics runs through both sides

Distributors buy and sell, and logistics runs through both. Procure to pay brings goods in from manufacturers. Order to cash sells them to contractors, businesses and retailers. Carriers move inbound freight from suppliers and outbound deliveries to customers, and contract warehouses hold regional or overflow stock alongside your own branches and distribution centers.

Every promise you make downstream depends on a shipment someone else is moving. When a carrier doesn’t respond to a tender or a 3PL’s receipt never arrives, the customer order on the other side slips too. Your supply chain is your customer experience, and for a distributor logistics is where both sides meet.

What gets in the way

Inside sales can’t answer “where’s my order?” Carrier status lives in emails and carrier websites, not attached to the customer order.
Stock at 3PLs drifts across branches Stock transfers (943), receipts (944) and inventory adjustments (947) arrive late or by spreadsheet, so branch availability and pricing decisions rest on stale numbers.
Inbound freight is hard to manage When you control freight from manufacturers, unanswered tenders and missing shipment status (214) leave purchasing and receiving guessing.
Freight charges slip through Freight invoices (210) arrive as PDFs or paper and are hard to check against the load and what was agreed.
Every region brings its own carriers A new branch group, region or acquisition adds carriers and warehouses with different capabilities.

Connect carriers and contract warehouses

SPICE™ brings carriers and contract warehouses, on EDI or not, into one governed process, so carrier and warehouse status links to the supplier and customer orders it affects.

SPICE Connect™

Integrates carriers and 3PLs with your ERP, warehouse and transportation systems, rolls out the trading partner program and supports it in production.

SPICE Web OMS™

Gives regional carriers and contract warehouses that aren’t on EDI a guided web workspace to respond to tenders, post status and confirm receipts and shipments.

SPICE Digital Document Service™

Turns paper freight invoices and logistics documents into validated transactions.

Connect status to both sides of the order

Logistics on its own tells you where a truck is. Connected to procure to pay and order to cash, it tells you which customer orders depend on that truck. On the SPICE™ Supply Chain Collaboration Platform, SPICE Insight™ follows each order from supplier PO through carrier delivery to the customer, flags missing events and compares carriers and 3PLs on tender acceptance, status completeness, delivery performance and invoice accuracy. SpicY™ in SPICE Insight™ can answer questions like “which shipments need carrier follow-up today?”

Customers ordering through SPICE Trade™ can see carrier, tracking and delivery details when available, so fewer of them call to ask. Logistics reuses the rules, product data and support behind order to cash for distributors and procure to pay for distributors. See how SPICE™ works across the business for distributors, or the full transportation and contract warehousing solution.

What changes

Clean data

Carrier and warehouse documents arrive validated and mapped to your ERP, so branch inventory and freight costs reflect what actually happened.

Perfect order

Supplier shipments, warehouse movements and customer deliveries stay linked, so inside sales can answer status questions and finance can check freight charges.

More control

One platform for buying and selling, with logistics running through both. Add a region, branch group or carrier without rebuilding.

Try the interactive explorerFollow a shipment step by step through every channel, and see what reaches your ERP.

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The SPICE™ platform

Where logistics runs on SPICE™

The highlighted parts run this process. Every other part runs on the same platform. 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 3PL EDI for distributors?

3PL EDI is the exchange of warehouse documents between a distributor and its contract warehouses: stock transfers and receipts going in, shipping orders and shipping advice going out, and inventory adjustments. SPICE™ handles these with 3PLs on EDI and gives the rest a web workspace, so branch and 3PL stock stay in step with your ERP.

How does logistics connect to our supplier and customer orders?

Each tender, shipment status, warehouse transaction and freight invoice stays linked to the order it belongs to. SPICE Insight™ follows the order from supplier PO through carrier delivery to the customer, so inside sales and purchasing see the same record.

Do we need procure to pay or order to cash on SPICE first?

No. You can connect carriers and warehouses, suppliers or customers in any order on the same platform. As each side is connected, logistics events link to the supplier and customer orders they affect.

Can our customers see delivery status?

Yes, for customers ordering through SPICE Trade™. They see confirmations, shipments and carrier, tracking and delivery details when available, which cuts the calls and emails to inside sales asking whether an order has shipped.

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Link every carrier and warehouse to the orders on both sides

We’ll walk through how SPICE™ connects your carriers and contract warehouses, on EDI or not, so inside sales, purchasing and finance work from the same shipment record.

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