AIMS360 vs DiCentral
DiCentral, founded in Houston in 2000 and part of TrueCommerce since 2021, is a cloud EDI and managed integration provider that connects to more than 100 ERP, WMS, accounting and ecommerce systems. AIMS360 is a consumer brands ERP with EDI built in. So this is less a feature comparison than a choice of architecture: keep an EDI provider beside your ERP, or run EDI inside it.
What is the difference between AIMS360 and DiCentral? DiCentral is an EDI provider: it translates and routes your documents and connects to the ERP you already run. AIMS360 is the ERP, with EDI native to it, so purchase orders land as orders and labels, ship notices and invoices come from the same records. Third-party profiles describe DiCentral pricing as tiers tied to transaction volume, trading partners and document types; AIMS360 charges a flat monthly fee per retailer with unlimited transactions.
The honest assessment
DiCentral is a mature, cross-industry EDI provider. It serves retail, distribution, manufacturing, automotive and healthcare companies, connects to more than 100 ERP, WMS, accounting and ecommerce systems including SAP Business One, and offers managed onboarding, vendor managed inventory and product data synchronization. If your ERP is staying and you want one EDI vendor across many industries and many existing systems, that breadth is real.
The question for a consumer brand is different: whether to keep running EDI as a separate service next to the ERP at all.
Side by side
| AIMS360 | DiCentral | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A consumer brands ERP with native EDI | A cloud EDI and managed integration provider, part of TrueCommerce |
| Systems you run | One | Your ERP, DiCentral, and the integration between them |
| EDI pricing | A flat monthly fee per retailer, unlimited transactions, no VAN, kilocharacter, per-document or per-line fees | Subscription tiers tied to transaction volume, trading partners and document types, per third-party profiles |
| Apparel data | Style, color and size grids, prepacks and case packs, native | Passes the item data your ERP provides |
| Labels and ship notices | Printed and built from the pick and pack in AIMS360 | Built from the data your ERP or WMS sends |
| Industries | Consumer brands: apparel, footwear, beauty, accessories, home, pet and more | Cross-industry |
| Support | One vendor for ERP and EDI, with 24x7 emergency EDI support | EDI support from DiCentral, ERP support from your ERP vendor |
Pricing
Third-party profiles describe DiCentral pricing as subscription tiers based on transaction volume, the number of trading partners and document types, negotiated for high-volume customers. On a volume-based plan, more orders and more frequent inventory feeds can move you into a higher tier. On AIMS360 the EDI bill is a flat monthly fee per retailer with unlimited transactions, so growth does not change it.
The full math, using a published per-document rate card, is on EDI provider vs built-in EDI.
The real decision
If your ERP has no EDI of its own and you are not replacing it, a provider such as DiCentral is a reasonable way to connect to retailers.
Choosing an ERP with EDI built in removes the separate EDI subscription and the connector in one move. AIMS360 still posts to QuickBooks, Sage or NetSuite for the books.
Switching
A named AIMS360 implementation manager lists every retailer you trade with through DiCentral, the documents each one uses, and your warehouses or 3PL.
Styles with color and size grids, customers, inventory and open orders move into AIMS360, which becomes the system the EDI runs on.
Each retailer's documents are mapped and tested on AIMS360's native EDI before live orders switch over.
Retailers that run their vendor programs on SPS Commerce stay connected through SPS, managed from AIMS360.
Retailers move one by one, and open orders and inventory are reconciled before each cutover so nothing ships twice or goes missing.
The implementation manager who scoped the project stays on the account after go-live, with 24x7 emergency EDI support behind the team.
99% of AIMS360 clients are live within 90 days, from AIMS360's own implementation analysis. See how implementation works.
FAQ
DiCentral is a cloud EDI and supply chain integration provider founded in Houston, Texas in 2000. It translates and routes EDI documents, offers managed onboarding and integrates with more than 100 ERP, WMS, accounting and ecommerce systems. It has been part of TrueCommerce since 2021.
Yes. TrueCommerce acquired DiCentral in 2021, and DiCentral now operates as a TrueCommerce company.
Third-party profiles describe subscription tiers based on transaction volume, the number of trading partners and document types, with negotiated pricing for high-volume customers. Ask for a quote at the volume you expect a year from now, not just today's.
A flat monthly fee per retailer with unlimited transactions and no VAN, kilocharacter, per-document or per-line fees. Adding a retailer adds a flat fee; adding volume adds nothing.
For brands that run their operations on AIMS360, yes for most retailers, because EDI is native to the ERP and connects to 350+ retailers. Retailers that run their vendor programs on SPS Commerce connect through SPS, managed from AIMS360.
If your ERP is staying and has no EDI of its own, a provider such as DiCentral is a reasonable way to reach retailers. If you are replacing the ERP anyway, an ERP with EDI built in removes the second subscription and the connector at the same time.
AIMS360, when you need the operations as well as the EDI: style, color and size grids, prepacks, production, warehouse management and Shopify on the same record the EDI runs on. DiCentral is the broader choice when you need one EDI vendor across many industries and many existing systems.
99% of AIMS360 clients are live within 90 days. Each retailer is mapped and tested on AIMS360's native EDI before live orders switch over, so retailers move without a gap.
Keep going
Bring your retailer list and your last three EDI invoices. We'll show you ERP and EDI together on AIMS360.
