Case Study: Scheels achieves 95% purchase order automation and 48-hour receiving with SPS Commerce

Purchase Order Automation by Onboarding Hundreds of Vendors

Scheels, an employee‑owned sporting goods retailer headquartered in Fargo, ND with millions of SKUs per store, faced slow, paper‑based receiving that left products in the backroom for up to three weeks. The company’s challenge was to move inventory through receiving and onto the selling floor in hours rather than weeks by automating purchase orders and onboarding vendors to EDI.

By deploying SPS Commerce Fulfillment and SPS Commerce Community for vendor onboarding, Scheels brought hundreds of suppliers onto EDI and now receives 95% of purchase orders electronically. With ASNs and standardized labeling, shipments are scanned and received automatically, cutting time to the sales floor to under 48 hours while increasing sales and inventory turns and reducing labor.

Scheels

Tony Duerr

Operations Leader