Sell into Crate & Barrel, CB2 and Crate & Kids on one platform.

Crate & Barrel EDI is the electronic data interchange link a vendor runs to trade purchase orders, ship notices and invoices with Crate & Barrel and its sister banners CB2 and Crate & Kids. The core document set commonly runs 850 purchase order, 855 acknowledgment, 856 advance ship notice, 810 invoice and 852 product activity, with 997 functional acknowledgment, and optional 846 inventory, 860 purchase order change, 832 price catalog and 870 order status. Cartons need GS1-128 labels, and compliance is enforced through the vendor guidelines Crate & Barrel issues to you.

The 852 product activity document carries sell-through and inventory movement data back to the vendor, and Crate & Barrel treats it as part of the core set rather than an optional extra. That is unusual and it is genuinely useful: it tells you what is actually selling rather than what was ordered, which is what a replenishment decision should be based on. The practical catch is that the data only helps if it lands somewhere it can be read against your own inventory and open purchase orders, rather than in a file nobody opens.

Crate & Barrel's published specifications, including the 856 ship notice guideline, run at ANSI ASC X12 version 4010. Many newer retailer programs run 5010, so a vendor already trading elsewhere may need to support both versions at once. AIMS360 maps to the version each retailer specifies, so running 4010 for Crate & Barrel and 5010 for another account at the same time is a configuration rather than a second system.

They sit under the same parent business, so vendors commonly trade with more than one banner through a shared connection, but the assortment, buying team and program details differ per banner. There is also a separate Crate and Barrel International trading partner profile with its own document expectations for cross-border programs. Confirm which banners and profiles your vendor agreement covers before onboarding.

Crate and Barrel International is listed as its own trading partner rather than folded into the domestic connection, and its document expectations can differ, typically with a smaller required core and more documents treated as optional. For a vendor that means the international program may need its own mapping and testing rather than inheriting the domestic setup. AIMS360 configures each profile separately while keeping both on one stock record.

Yes. Deductions are tracked at document level with reason codes, the originating order and shipment, and the supporting evidence needed to dispute them. Because AIMS360 holds the order, the ASN, the carton detail and the invoice on the same record, a deduction traces back to the exact shipment rather than being reconstructed from a spreadsheet weeks later.

No. AIMS360 includes managed EDI as part of the platform, so there is no separate EDI vendor to license, no per-document or kilocharacter fees and no middleware layer to reconcile. Purchase orders land directly against live inventory in the OMS and documents go back out to the retailer's spec from the same system.

Once your vendor guidelines and trading partner details are issued, mapping, testing and certification typically run a few weeks depending on how many banners and profiles are in scope and how clean your item data is. For home goods vendors the item data is usually the long pole, because weights, dimensions and carton counts drive freight and labelling downstream.

Yes. Crate & Barrel orders, other retailer EDI programs, Shopify DTC and marketplace orders all allocate against one inventory pool with channel rules, so a large wholesale purchase order and a strong DTC week cannot quietly sell the same units twice. In home goods, where reorder lead times run months, that single pool is what keeps the promise honest.