As an E-Commerce Innovator, the grocer looks to manage vendors and products accurately. In their core segment, the healthy food arena, accurate product information is critical to consumers. They chose Simplain Vendor Portal to manage this process. The E-Commerce populates its ERP application with data collected and scrubbed in Simplain Vendor Portal using the portal's comprehensive validation rules for its extensive set of standard and user-defined attributes. In this implementation, Simplain Vendor Portal is the one source of truth for its master data. The bi-directional APIs provided by Simplain Vendor Portal allowed it to be in sync with the grocer's back-end ERP system. More importantly, this function will allow vendors and the grocer (as and when they open up the application for its their vendors) to view and act on the same data using the same application.

Simplain vendor portal is a work-flow driven application allowing various departments within the organization to perform their role effectively without being a bottleneck to the overall process. The product data model in the solution is compliant with the GDSN standard allowing the e-commerce grocer to manage rich dataset for the products they sell. In addition to managing the minimum information required for purchasing and selling the products, the grocer’s users can manage nutritional information, allergens, certifications, product images and detailed consumer facing descriptions etc.

Simplain vendor portal is a work-flow driven application allowing various departments within the organization to perform their role effectively without being a bottleneck to the overall process. The product data model in the solution is compliant with the GDSN standard allowing the e-commerce grocer to manage rich dataset for the products they sell. In addition to managing the minimum information required for purchasing and selling the products, the grocer’s users can manage nutritional information, allergens, certifications, product images and detailed consumer facing descriptions etc.

The E-Commerce Grocer uses Simplain’s approval workflow to segregate responsibilities and approval processes to implement segregation of duties and accountability. The audit-log functions help data stewards to keeps track of "who changed what and when" even as the master data is exchanged between vendor and various internal departments. Armed with well-defined work-flows and traceability provided by the audit-log, the data governance teams can be sure all parties are consistently following the best practices.

The E-Commerce Grocer recognized the streamlined and comprehensive nature of the Simplain Vendor Portal Suite and the ability to add additional modules from Simplain Vendor Portal as needed. Simplain Vendor Portal is designed for retailers and wholesalers. The E-Commerce Grocer chose Simplain Vendor Portal primarily to have a solid foundation on which it can scale and be agile as it continues to innovate.

Simplain Vendor Portal is delivered as a SaaS solution to the e-commerce grocer. Simplain provides REST APIs for inbound and outbound data integration between the Vendor Portal and on-premise/other cloud environments. In addition, Simplain and The E-Commerce Grocer teams worked together to build data consistency checks between the grocer’s in-house systems and Simplain Vendor Portal.