NRF 2021

Simplain Software Solutions LLC

Diamond Bar,  CA 
United States
https://simplain.com
  • Booth: 3151

Simplain was founded in 2007 with a vision of providing software integration solutions to grocery retailers, hardline retailers, discount retailers, and wholesalers. Simplain differentiates itself with the following products/services in the marketplace. 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.

 Press Releases

  • Bronx, NY (October 26, 2023) — Krasdale Foods (Krasdale), a 115-year-old family-owned
    business providing grocery distribution, merchandising and marketing services to independent grocery stores in the New York City metro market, and Simplain Software Solutions LLC (Simplain), a software provider, announced the rollout of their new communications platform.

    “Implementing this portal streamlines our business interactions and allows our internal teams to collaborate with suppliers, helping us serve our independent retail customers more efficiently,” said Dennis Hickey, chief merchandising officer at Krasdale Foods.

    Using the Simplain Vendor Portal, Krasdale will consolidate various aspects of its supplier
    communications, such as vendor onboarding, item management, cost and deals management, and merchandising contracts and promotions.
     

  • Great News! Simplain Vendor Portal Wins the Fall 2023 Top Performer Award from SourceForge! Thanks to everyone who provided positive reviews about the software on the SourceForge website.

     

    We value your input and feedback as we continue our march towards building world-class collaboration software for our customers!

     

    "...Simplain Vendor Portal has been named a Top Performer this Fall in the Vendor Management and Retail Management categories, and their numerous outstanding user reviews are proof of the excellent solution they provide to their customers. Congratulations and keep up the great work!” said SourceForge President, Logan Abbott.

     

    “At Simplain, We're excited to accept SourceForge Fall 2023 Top Performer Award. We listen to our customers even as we try to come up with a best-in-class supplier collaboration solution for our retail and wholesale customers. We are happy to see our users rewarding us with great reviews....", said Sanjaye Elayattu, Founder & President at Simplain.


    SouceForge is the world's largest software and services review and comparison website and Simplain is proud to be awarded the Top Performer Award from them.

  • Simplain Vendor Portal was selected by SmartBrief for the Innovation Awards in AI 2024.  Several major retailers and wholesalers use this platform to streamline their vendor collaboration activities and achieve better data accuracy and productivity. Retailers and wholesalers use Simplain Vendor Portal for new vendor registration, item introduction, cost management, deals & promotions management, rebate billing, order confirmation, invoice management and DSD management. The workflow driven platform provides better vendor accountability, data quality, productivity and speed to market.   

    The solution is now rich with new AI features such as Intelligent Document Processing(IDP), Semantic Search, Anomaly detection and other natural language(NLP) features that enhance the user experience.  The integrations are coded within the platform and embedded in every module, accessible for every user at all times. 

 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    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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Categories

Consulting Services
  • Supply Chain
    • Information Technology
  • Product Information Management
  • Vendor Relationship Management
    • Merchandising
  • Assortment/Category Management
  • Global Sourcing
  • Supplier Relationship Manager
    • Supply Chain
  • Delivery and Returns
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