Archie Black
Analyst · William Blair
Thanks, Irmina, and welcome everyone. First and foremost, we hope you're all staying safe and well and our thoughts are with everyone affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The health and safety of our employees, customers and partners is a top priority and we remain fully committed to support the suppliers and retailers that serve our communities in these challenging times. SPS Commerce Services are absolutely critical to our customers to ensure they are able to deliver the day to day essentials we all need. We are cloud-native company and the investments we have made over the years, and our tools systems and processes enable us to deliver uninterrupted and secure service anywhere in the world often with nothing more than a web browser. Due to the nature of the SaaS business model, we are able to operate remotely providing a full-service experience to existing customers and promptly onboarding new suppliers as needed. For the first quarter, revenue grew 11% to $74.2 million. Recurring revenue grew 12% and adjusted EBITDA grew 24% to $20.4 million. SPS Commerce provides a mission-critical service to suppliers and retailers at a time when e-commerce has become a central to their business. We recently engaged with US Foods, a leading foodservice distributor about leveraging EDI and automating their supply chain. As COVID-19 started to disrupt operations in the food industry, US Foods realized that electronic processes are critical to maintain effective business operations. They identified EDI as a crucial component in this process requiring all of their suppliers to move to electronic order fulfillment. In a matter four weeks, SPS Commerce has signed on more suppliers to transact EDI with US Foods, than they have on their own over the last 10 years. US Foods have also formed grocery sector partnerships, enabling it to deliver product directly to our retailers' distribution center or stores. These new partnerships further emphasize the need for supply chain efficiencies to help retailers across the United States maintain inventory and meet increasing consumer demand. Many of the retailers we work with are expanding on their multi-channel sourcing strategy to meet increasing demand. Costco, for example, has regularly been using SPS for same-day vendor setup, and has relied on us over the past few weeks to add approximately 200 new vendors to their network and ensure they are up and running to fill Costco's orders within hours. We have also been working with Walgreens, onboarding new critical suppliers of essential products such as face masks. With our full-service, same day onboarding capabilities, SPS was able to increase speed to market for a variety of critical products from new suppliers. Stay at home government directives have also caused an abrupt decline in brick and mortar sale -- retail sales and a shift to online shopping. E-commerce is now an integral and sometimes necessary part of our lives, prompting retailers to evaluate their operational efficiencies and quickly adapt to stay relevant. As part of SPS Commerce fulfillment, we launched carrier service to help suppliers manage drop-ship orders, helping them save time with functionality like batch processing and reduce costs with rate shopping capability for all major carriers in the US and Canada. Carrier service, which was just launched in March is being used by our customers to fill -- fulfill orders for Amazon, Costco, Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond and Target. We are pleased with the product's acceptance to date as we strive to support our trading community in this challenging environment. We expect the current dynamics impacting retailers an suppliers will continue to amplify the need for process automation. And SPS Commerce has committed to support and improve trading partner relationships in every way we can. We are also mindful of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty around its implications across the retail landscape. SPS Commerce has a very large network of trading partners across various industries and we see retailers and suppliers adapting and implementing e-commerce capabilities to serve rapidly evolving consumer demand. Across our network and diverse end markets, we have seen a steady volume of transaction since March, with approximately half of our network seeing increased volume, while some have experienced a decline. The dynamics of the situation continue to evolve. At this time, we are seeing increased demand for automation from retailers embracing e-commerce and implementing drop-ship capabilities. Our exposure to the grocery supply chain has resulted in an increase in onboarding of new suppliers for retailers as well as foodservice and grocery distributors. These are the dynamics that drive demand for SPS Commerce Solutions, and we are optimistic about the long-term opportunities as we continue to support our growing network of over 31,000 trading partners. As we look at the rest of 2020, this uncertainty around the duration and the magnitude of the pandemic and its growing impact on the economy, we are factoring in the possibility of continued pressure on retailers, a decline in demand for our solutions such as analytics and a push-out in enterprise ERP implementations. All of which would negatively impact our business. These are dynamics we cannot protect -- predict or control, but with our cloud-native operational model we are well-positioned to provide support to our customers, partners and our community. In summary, SPS continues to be a mission-critical aspect of the global supply chain. Our vision to be the world's retail network is being realized. Our retail supply chain solutions are keeping trading partners connected, especially now during this time of crisis and disruption. The work we do is vital and I would like to thank all of our employees for the ongoing commitment to supporting our customers and ensuring business and supply continuity for our communities. We achieved our 10th year as a public company in April, and based on our history of consistent execution and ongoing focus on our customers' needs, we believe SPS Commerce will emerge from this crisis stronger than ever. With that, I'll turn it over to Kim, to discuss our financial results.