AIMS360 provides a Model Context Protocol server for Claude. Once it is connected, Claude can read your live orders and invoices and answer questions about sales, backlog, margin, and receivables in plain English — inside the same chat where you are already writing the plan, the email, or the analysis.
Request the MCP connection Book a demoYes. AIMS360 provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects Claude to your live AIMS360 orders and invoices. Once your connection is installed, you ask Claude a question in plain English — “what did we ship last quarter by division,” “which customers are past due,” “margin by style for spring” — and Claude answers from your real ERP data as text, a table, a chart, or an Excel export. The connection is read-only. To get one set up, request it from AIMS360.
Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside systems. Before MCP, every assistant needed a bespoke integration for every tool. With MCP, AIMS360 builds the connection once and it works wherever MCP is supported. For an ERP that means the assistant is reading your actual records instead of working from whatever you remembered to paste in.
MCP support in ERP is still early. Microsoft has shipped MCP servers for Dynamics 365 finance and operations and for Business Central, and a small number of other vendors have followed. Among ERPs built specifically for apparel and consumer brands, AIMS360 is one of the few offering one.
Claude is good at working a problem through with you. AIMS360 is the only thing that knows what is actually true about your orders, your units, and your money. MCP is the wire between them.
Understanding the question the way a colleague would. Multi-step analysis without a new report at every step. Working the numbers into the memo, deck, or email you are already writing. Following up without you restating the whole context.
Live orders and invoices from your own tenant, at style, color and size grain. Booked versus shipped kept separate so “sales” means the right thing. Margin percent, average unit retail, units back-ordered. Every channel: DTC, wholesale, retail, and EDI dropship.
There is no public marketplace install. AIMS360 provisions the connection for your tenant, which is what keeps it scoped to your company's data.
Ask for the AIMS360 MCP server connection through the contact form. Support confirms your tenant and your plan.
The server is scoped to your company's AIMS360 data. Nobody else's records are reachable.
Paste the connection details into Claude's connector settings and authenticate.
No query language and no field names. Claude reads live AIMS360 data and answers in the chat.
These are not canned reports. They are examples of wording that works, because AIMS360 resolves business language to the right fields behind the scenes.
“What did we ship last quarter, by division?” “Margin by style for the spring line.” “Which customers are past due, and by how much?” “Open backlog by season, oldest first.” “Compare this month to the same month last year.” “Units shipped by size for our top ten styles.”Because Claude can chain steps, follow-ups work naturally: pull the top customers, then ask which of their orders are unallocated, then export the list. Prefer ChatGPT? The same ERP data is available through the AIMS360 app for ChatGPT.
The MCP server exposes four read-only tools over your live AIMS360 data. Orders cover the booked side of the business; invoices cover what actually shipped and sold.
| Area | Break it down by | Measure it in |
|---|---|---|
| Orders Booked and open backlog |
Customer, style, color, size, style/color/size, season, division, sales rep, ship-to state, order source, payment terms, carrier, buyer, vendor, cancellation reason, entered / start / complete date | Ordered amount, open amount, shipped amount, cancelled amount, order count, units booked, units cancelled |
| Invoices Shipped, sold and billed |
Customer, style, color, size, style/color/size, season, division, sales rep, bill-to and ship-to state, order source, Shopify store, payment terms, carrier, invoice date, due date | Total amount, merchandise, balance, invoice count, units shipped, units back-ordered, margin %, average unit retail |
| Record lookup One order or invoice |
Order number or invoice number, with line-item and per-size expansion | Full header and line detail, allocations, back-order position |
Built-in shortcuts cover what operators ask most: overdue orders, orders with no allocation, overdue invoices, and outstanding balance. Period-over-period comparison is built in as well, so this month against last, or the same month across three years, does not need a new report.
| Pasting an export into a chat | AIMS360 MCP server | |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Whatever you exported this morning | Live AIMS360 orders and invoices |
| How current | As of the last export | As of right now |
| Apparel grain | Whatever fit in the spreadsheet | Style, color, size, season, division |
| Follow-up question | New export | Just ask |
| Data leaving your control | A full file, every time | Only the rows the question needs |
| Write access | N/A | None, read-only by design |
Model Context Protocol. An open standard for connecting AI assistants to external systems, published by Anthropic.
The service that exposes a defined set of tools an assistant can call. AIMS360 runs one against your ERP data.
The connection can query and analyze, but cannot create, edit, cancel, or delete anything in AIMS360.
Booked is what was ordered. Shipped is what left and was invoiced. Apparel needs both, and they are not the same number.
Stock or work-in-progress committed to an order. Open orders with none are backlog at risk.
Average unit retail. Total dollars divided by units sold, at whatever grain you asked for.
Yes. AIMS360 provides a Model Context Protocol server that connects Claude to your live AIMS360 orders and invoices. It is not a public download — AIMS360 provisions the connection for your tenant. Request it through the AIMS360 contact form and support will set it up.
Model Context Protocol is an open standard from Anthropic for connecting AI assistants to outside systems. Before MCP, every assistant needed a bespoke integration for every tool. With MCP, AIMS360 builds the connection once and it works wherever MCP is supported. For an ERP that means the assistant is reading your actual records instead of working from whatever you remembered to paste in.
Request the AIMS360 MCP server connection through the AIMS360 contact form. Support provisions it against your tenant and sends you the connection details to add in Claude. There is no self-serve marketplace install today, which is deliberate — the connection is scoped to your company's data.
No. The AIMS360 MCP connection is read-only. Claude can look up and analyze orders and invoices, but it cannot create, edit, cancel, or delete records in AIMS360. Your approvals, controls, and audit trail are untouched.
Orders and invoices, at the grain apparel needs. Booked, open, shipped, and cancelled amounts. Units booked, shipped, and back-ordered. Margin percent and average unit retail. Grouped by customer, style, color, size, season, division, sales rep, channel, Shopify store, carrier, payment terms, or ship-to state. Plus built-in patterns for overdue orders, unallocated backlog, overdue invoices, and outstanding balance.
Same ERP data, different assistant. The ChatGPT app is enabled from inside ChatGPT. The Claude connector runs over MCP and is provisioned by AIMS360. Teams that draft, analyze, and write in Claude tend to prefer having the numbers in that same window.
MCP connectors are supported across Anthropic's Claude apps and the Claude Developer Platform. Exactly where a given connection appears depends on your Claude plan and your organization's connector settings. AIMS360 will confirm the setup that fits your environment.
Not today. Because MCP is an open standard, adding further MCP-capable assistants is a smaller job than building each integration from scratch. Tell us which one your team uses and we will factor it into the roadmap.
Every channel. The data behind it is your AIMS360 ERP, which already runs DTC, wholesale, retail, and EDI dropship to major retailers in one system, so the answers span all of them rather than one storefront.
Tell us about your setup and we will provision the connection for your tenant, then walk it through on your own orders and invoices.
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