Native C&S Wholesale Grocers EDI inside AIMS360 for consumer brands: purchase orders in, GS1-128 cartons, the ship notice and invoice from one shipment, to the distribution centers on your purchase orders.
C&S Wholesale Grocers supplies close to 10,000 independent grocery stores, military commissaries and exchanges, and its own corporate stores from about 60 distribution centers, and since September 2025 it owns SpartanNash. If your consumer brand sells into it, AIMS360 runs the EDI inside your ERP.
Yes. C&S Wholesale Grocers is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner. Its purchase orders arrive by EDI and become sales orders against your items. AIMS360 prints GS1-128 carton labels, sends the ship notice from the packed shipment and bills the invoice from the same record, so the order, the cartons and the bill agree.
Grocery wholesale has its own conventions, and C&S sets the exact documents, versions and labels in the vendor requirements it gives your brand. Send them to our EDI team before you commit to a ship date, and we confirm what the connection covers.
Who C&S serves and what changed with SpartanNash.
| Topic | C&S Wholesale Grocers |
|---|---|
| What it is | A wholesale grocery supplier, founded in 1918 to serve independent grocery stores. |
| Headquarters | Keene, New Hampshire. |
| Who it serves | Close to 10,000 independent retail locations, military commissaries and exchanges, and more than 200 corporate-run grocery stores. |
| Distribution | About 60 distribution centers after the SpartanNash merger. |
| SpartanNash | C&S completed its acquisition of SpartanNash on September 22, 2025. |
| What it carries | Products for every aisle of the grocery store, from fresh produce to household goods, plus its own private label range. |
Figures are from the C&S release announcing the SpartanNash closing, September 22, 2025. Check cswg.com for changes.
Built from the same records that run your inventory and warehouse.
| Standard document | Direction | How AIMS360 handles it |
|---|---|---|
| EDI 850 purchase order | C&S to you | Imported as a sales order and matched to your items by UPC, with the ship-to distribution center and dates on the order. |
| EDI 855 PO acknowledgment | You to C&S | If the requirements ask for it, confirms quantities and dates line by line from the live order. |
| EDI 856 ship notice (ASN) | You to C&S | Built from the scanned cartons at shipment close, with the SSCC from each label. |
| EDI 810 invoice | You to C&S | Generated from the same shipment, so quantities match the ASN and the PO. |
| EDI 997 acknowledgment | Both ways | Sent for each document received and tracked for each one sent. |
| GS1-128 carton label | On every carton | Printed as cartons close and approved against the required layout before go-live. |
This is the standard X12 retailer set AIMS360 runs. Grocery trading partners sometimes ask for grocery-specific transaction sets instead. If your C&S requirements name one, send them to our EDI team so we can confirm scope before go-live. Do not assume a table on any website, including this one, matches your requirements.
What wholesale grocery distribution asks of a consumer brand's system.
C&S runs about 60 distribution centers. Each ship-to on your purchase orders is set up as a location in AIMS360, so it matches the 850 and prints on the GS1-128 label.
Grocery distribution buys by the case. AIMS360 holds cases and prepacks as their own units, so the order, the label and the ship notice describe the same pack. See case packs and prepacks.
If the vendor requirements call for routing requests, the 753 and 754 run from the same shipment, and the VICS bill of lading prints from it too.
When a payment comes in short, chargeback management logs the deduction against the invoice it came off, next to the ASN and labels that went with it.
Our EDI team runs this with you, starting with the requirements.
C&S issues your vendor number. Ask for its current vendor and EDI requirements and send them to our EDI team.
Our EDI team reads the requirements and confirms which documents and versions the connection covers before you commit to a first ship date.
Add the vendor number, ship via and payment terms, pick the trading partner on the EDI tab, switch on the documents and set the FOB terms.
Set up each C&S distribution center on your orders as a ship-to location, matching the codes on the 850.
Print a sample GS1-128 label for approval, then run a test order through the ship notice and invoice until every document passes.
We watch the first live order through to the invoice and keep the map current as the requirements change.
Yes. C&S Wholesale Grocers is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner. Purchase orders import as sales orders, and AIMS360 sends the ship notice and invoice from the shipment your team packed, with GS1-128 labels on every carton.
Yes. C&S completed its acquisition of SpartanNash on September 22, 2025. Ask your buyer whether SpartanNash orders run on your C&S vendor setup or their own.
Keene, New Hampshire. It was founded in 1918 as a supplier to independent grocery stores and runs about 60 distribution centers.
Close to 10,000 independent retail locations, military commissaries and exchanges, and more than 200 corporate-run grocery stores, according to its September 2025 release.
Yes. Cases and prepacks are their own units in AIMS360, each distribution center is a ship-to location, and the GS1-128 label and ship notice come from the same closed shipment.
No. EDI is built into AIMS360 as a licensed add-on with unlimited transactions and a trading partner line per retailer. There are no per-document, VAN or kilocharacter fees. See pricing.
Yes. Each is its own trading partner with its own requirements, all on one stock record. See Kroger and Fred Meyer EDI and Whole Foods EDI.
Send us your C&S requirements and see the order, the cartons, the ship notice and the invoice run from one record, on a demo built around your items.
