Archie Black
Analyst · Koji Ikeda from Oppenheimer. Your line is now open
Thanks, Irmina and welcome, everyone. We delivered a strong third quarter 2020, as retail activity continues to shift to ecommerce. This trend in consumer behavior is fast-track in the pace of EDI adoption among trading partners resulting in an acceleration in demand for order fulfillment automation. For the third quarter, revenue grew 12% to $79.5 million. Recurring revenue grew 13% and adjusted EBITDA grew 29% to $23.2 million. Supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic earlier this year and risks of future outbreaks are driving a long-lasting impact on retail dynamics. In addition, with the holiday season on the corner, retailers are expanding their supplier networks and asking trading partners to implement or improve ecommerce capabilities. According to IBM’s annual retail index, the pandemic has accelerated the trend to ecommerce by nearly five years. But our indications, consumers will embrace via online, pickup in store, curbside pickup or drop ship as preferred shopping methods this season. Changing consumers shopping as preferences make fulfilling orders more complex for all trading partners, including retailers, distributors, suppliers and logistics companies. SPS’s expertise in automating order fulfillment for B2B relationships includes drop shipping. Currently, SPS has relationships with over 600 retailers to fulfil drop ship orders through our network. 2/3rds of these retailers also send order types through our network to suppliers. In total, we have more than 12,000 drop ship connections. SPS is committed to supporting our customers and optimizing their EDI systems across various markets. We recently announced a market leading Quickbooks EDI solution. SPS is the only EDI Company to partner with Right Networks, the leading provider of cloud hosting for Quickbooks Desktop Enterprise to deliver a turnkey product that makes EDI easier for 1000s of Quickbook customers. Combined with our expertise and partnerships with the most popular integration solutions such as Oracle NetSuite, SAP, Sage and Acumatica. SPS has a leadership position in fulfilment system automation across a significant portion of the market with exposure across all verticals. Our retail brands, parent company to two of the top five pet stores in North America recently partnered with SPS Commerce to create one consolidated EDI system that will handle all EDI transactions for pet value in that supermarket. The use of EDI will provide increased order visibility, inventory planning and a more efficient invoice reconciliation process. Coborn's a growing retail company runs more than 120 grocery, convenience, liquor and other retail operations across the Midwest. As expansion in growth result in operational complexities, Coborn’s engaged with SPS Commerce to implement electronic order fulfilment across their network of vendors to increase efficiency and accuracy, expedite payment terms and increased speed to show. Increasing order volumes also profited Liberty Sweets a chocolate producer to implement order automation to keep up with the demand. The company’s business more than doubled in two years and their products can now be found at a growing number of national retailers and grocers. With SPSs fulfilment with Quickbooks, Louis was able to scale without needing to update or swap out the current systems. They can also modify the solution as their logistics strategy changes. Over the past several quarters, we have seen an acceleration in demand for EDI. The SPS Commerce full service EDI solution integrates with any system and software to enhance automation, speed up processes and improve data analysis. SPS fulfilment supports 3PLs, shipping solutions like ShipStation and offers carrier service for companies who book shipments themselves. We connect our customers to 10s of 1000s of retailers and distributors allowing them to scale their business quickly and cost effectively. In summary, trading partners across the retail supply chain continue to rely on SPS Commerce to streamline their order fulfilment. As consumer preferences for omnichannel shopping accelerate, we are well-positioned to help our customers increase efficiency and automation in a rapidly changing environment. I’ll now turn it over to Kim to discuss our financial results.