Simplain Software Solutions LLC

Booth # 3151,

Diamond Bar, CA

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Simplain was founded in 2007 with a vision of providing software integration solutions to grocery retailers, hardlines retailers, discount retailers, and wholesalers. Simplain differentiates itself with the following products/services in the marketplace
1) Simplain Vendor Portal
In 2014, Simplain launched its flagship product, Vendor Portal. Simplain Vendor Portal is one of the leading Supplier Collaboration platforms in the market. Simplain Vendor Portal acts as a foundational platform on which our customers can launch their digital transformation initiatives by simplifying and streamlining various supplier collaboration activities such as vendor management, item management, cost management, deals management, promotions management, rebate management, purchase order management , invoice management and DSD management!
It utilizes AI Search for Product and AI image for labels and invoices.

Product & Service Categories:

Assortment/Category Management, Global Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Manager, Supply Chain, Product Information Management, Vendor Relationship Management, Delivery and Returns

Products

Deals & Promotions - Trade Funds Management
The deal management screen in vendor portal allows you and your vendor to negotiate a deal via the portal. The deals can be tied to a vendor promotion. It supports all types of deals (Off Invoice, Bill Backs, Scans, Lumpsums and Bracket). In addition to pure deal management, vendor portal also allows for promotions tied to the deals. The promotion can be initiated in the vendor portal either by you or your vendor. For example, the vendor may want to run a B1 G1 (BOGO) promotion in 10 stores and provide an associated scan back promotion. It handles both discounts and rebates. You can this extended the functionality with the Rebate Billing module. Audit Logs - The deal management also has audit log functionality that allows the retailer to review the specific changes made by the vendor/reviewers in the exchange and able to back track to reviewers or ask a need info to the vendors.
Vendor Registration & Maintenance
The vendor registration process is configurable, and workflow driven. It is common to have 4-5 review steps before the vendor can become active and operational. Vendor registration can capture documents and images (W9s, Insurance documents, facility certifications, etc..) as part of the registration process. Category Managers and Accounts Payable departments in an organization often find this as a huge benefit. There is no limit on number of attributes (e.g. Minority owned flag, promotion budget, etc..); organization and validations (required or not) of these attributes are fully configurable. Once the vendor is registered, vendors can perform maintenance functions in the vendor portal such as updating their address, contact, banking, and service terms information.
Rebate Billing (Rebate Invoices)
You may use this module to create rebate invoices to collect vendor funding towards bill back, scan back and lumpsum rebates from the vendor. Lumpsum deals can be invoiced manually via the portal and shared with the vendor. For scan back rebate billing, the scan deals set up in the Deals and Promotions module will be matched against the point-of-sale transactions. Similarly, billback rebate invoices are calculated based on purchase orders/receipts. The invoices can be finalized by a “rebate or accounts receivable” user. If the calculation and billing is done by a different system, companies can still use this module to share rebate invoices with the vendors. This can reduce the amount of back and forth between the A/R team at the retailer and the vendor and provide transparency to the vendor income generated from each vendor. Many companies rely on the vendor income to fund their promotions and manage their margins. This module provides yet another tool for you to make sure that you are not leaving money on the table.
Cost Management
Once an item is introduced via the item management module, the most common change to the item is list cost and deal changes. The Mass Cost Update screen allows the users to change list cost for multiple items at once. The cost can be managed at the following levels in vendor portal. At the warehouse level or warehouse network level At store level or store network level Globally or chain wide list cost At the model/zone level A zone is a group of stores for the specific vendors. For retailers with a large # of stores and heavy DSD operations, the DSD cost is often managed at the zone level. Vendor portal has extensive functionality in zone management where it allows vendors to manage their own zones. Very often, the companies manage this within their ERP and integrate the zone information into the vendor portal.

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Products

Deals & Promotions - Trade Funds Management

Vendor Registration & Maintenance

Rebate Billing (Rebate Invoices)

Cost Management