AIMS360 integrates with Dick's Sporting Goods via native EDI: 850 purchase orders, 856 ASNs inside the 1-hour window, UCC 128 labels, 810 invoices, and 846 inventory, for DC, direct-to-store, and dropship orders.
Dick's Sporting Goods EDI Integration
AIMS360 connects your brand to Dick's Sporting Goods in one system: purchase orders in, acknowledgments, ASNs inside the 1-hour window, thermal UCC 128 labels, and invoices out, all generated from your ERP records and fully managed by our EDI team. DC, direct-to-store, and dropship, with no middleware and no separate EDI provider taking a cut of every document.
Does AIMS360 integrate with Dick's Sporting Goods? Yes, natively. Dick's sends the 850 purchase order and 860 changes straight into AIMS360; AIMS360 sends back the 855 acknowledgment, the 856 ASN within Dick's 1-hour window with matching UCC 128 thermal labels, the 810 invoice, and 846 inventory updates, with 997 acknowledgments tracked on every document. DC, direct-to-store, and dropship orders run through the same engine, and AIMS360's own team handles mapping, testing, certification, and monitoring.
Dick's EDI Documents
Dick's requires vendors to be EDI capable as soon as a vendor number is assigned. Each document below is created from the same ERP records that run your inventory, warehouse, and accounting.
| Transaction | What it does for Dick's Sporting Goods |
|---|---|
| EDI 850 purchase order | Dick's sends DC, direct-to-store, or dropship order details. AIMS360 turns them into sales orders automatically, no retyping. |
| EDI 855 acknowledgment | Confirms acceptance or rejection and communicates ship dates back to Dick's from the order record. |
| EDI 856 ship notice (ASN) | Carton-level shipment notice, due within one hour of the shipment leaving your facility. AIMS360 generates it at shipment close, from the record that printed the labels. |
| EDI 810 invoice | Bills Dick's electronically. Manual or late invoices draw a $25 chargeback each under Dick's compliance schedule; EDI invoices from AIMS360 avoid the category entirely. |
| EDI 860 PO change | Dick's changes to quantities, dates, or line items sync into the open order automatically. |
| EDI 846 inventory | Keeps stock availability current from the master stock record, by style, color, and size. |
| EDI 997 acknowledgment | Confirms every document arrived and parsed. AIMS360 tracks 997s so a missing acknowledgment gets caught before it becomes a compliance problem. |
The 1-Hour ASN Rule
Dick's requires the 856 ASN within one hour after the shipment closes and leaves your facility, received while the freight is still in transit, on every order type: distribution center, direct-to-store, and dropship. That window is unforgiving if someone is building ASNs by hand after the fact.
In AIMS360 the ASN is a byproduct of shipping, not a separate task. Closing the shipment produces the carton-level 856 from the same record that drove picking and labeling, so the document is ready inside the window every time, even on a Friday afternoon.
Because the UCC 128 labels and the ASN come from one shipment record, the carton contents Dick's scans at receiving match the data they were sent. Mismatches between labels and ASNs are one of the compliance failures Dick's charges back for.
UCC 128 Labels & the Routing Guide
Dick's Domestic Vendor Routing and Supply Chain Guide (published at dsgfreight.com) sets the rules: UCC 128 carton labels printed by thermal transfer in a 4x6 format at ANSI A or B grade, and shipments routed through Dick's TMS at logistics.dcsg.com at least two business days before the CINSB date, the cancel-if-not-shipped-by deadline on the order.
Labeling chargebacks are common for new Dick's vendors because standard desktop labels do not meet the thermal transfer requirement. AIMS360 prints compliant UCC 128 labels natively from the shipment record, and the routing deadlines live on the order where your warehouse can see them.
Dick's Chargebacks & Exhibit C
Dick's publishes its compliance offset schedule as Exhibit C. Invoicing violations run $25 per invoice, including the MAN code, Manual Entry, invoice not sent EDI. Add ASN and labeling violations, routing non-compliance, late shipping against the CINSB date, and inventory accuracy violations assessed by your Gold, Silver, or Bronze vendor tier, and deductions compound fast.
Most of Exhibit C traces to documents that do not match the physical shipment or paperwork done by hand. When the 810 goes out via EDI, the ASN generates at shipment close, and the labels come from the same record, the common chargeback categories stop occurring.
When a deduction does land, Dick's takes disputes as deduction tasks through its vendor portal. AIMS360's EDI chargeback management keeps the original PO, ASN, and invoice together, so the evidence for a dispute is one screen, not a week of digging.
Dick's Dropship & Golf Galaxy
Dropship purchase orders carry the same EDI documents and the same 1-hour ASN requirement as bulk orders. Dick's vendor-direct ecommerce program has run on CommerceHub, now Rithum, since 2015, and AIMS360 connects both ways: direct EDI and through the Rithum network, with dropship EDI processed at volume.
Dick's requires ASNs on purchase orders shipping to Dick's and its affiliates. Golf Galaxy sits on the AIMS360 EDI retailer list alongside Dick's, and the same connection standards apply across the family. For golf and sporting goods brands, AIMS360 is also the ERP behind the golf and outdoor and sporting goods industries it serves.
Managed Dick's Onboarding
Dick's expects EDI capability as soon as your vendor number is assigned, which puts new vendors on the clock. AIMS360's own EDI specialists handle the Dick's mapping, testing, certification, and ongoing monitoring, the same fully managed EDI service behind every retailer we support, backed by 24x7 emergency support and priority handling for EDI. Your team never touches an EDI map, and when Dick's updates a requirement, the mapping updates with it.
Dick's EDI FAQ
Yes, natively. AIMS360 receives Dick's purchase orders and order changes and sends back acknowledgments, ASNs with UCC 128 labels, invoices, and inventory updates, for DC, direct-to-store, and dropship orders. Mapping, testing, certification, and monitoring are handled by AIMS360's EDI team.
Dick's vendors exchange the 850 purchase order, 855 acknowledgment, 856 ship notice (ASN) with matching UCC 128 labels, 810 invoice, 860 purchase order change, 846 inventory, and 997 functional acknowledgments. Dick's requires vendors to be EDI capable as soon as a vendor number is assigned. AIMS360 generates all of these directly from ERP records.
Within one hour after the shipment closes and leaves the facility, and it must be received while the shipment is in transit. This applies to distribution center, direct-to-store, and dropship purchase orders. AIMS360 generates the ASN at shipment close, from the same record that printed the labels.
Dick's compliance offset schedule (Exhibit C) includes $25 per invoice for late, missing, duplicate, or manual invoices (code MAN, Manual Entry, invoice not sent EDI), plus chargebacks for ASN and labeling violations, routing non-compliance, and late shipping against the CINSB date. Inventory accuracy violations are assessed by Gold, Silver, or Bronze vendor tier. AIMS360 tracks every deduction to resolution in EDI chargeback management.
UCC 128 (GS1-128) carton labels printed by thermal transfer in a 4x6 inch format at ANSI A or B grade, with label data matching the ASN. AIMS360 prints UCC 128 labels natively and transmits the ASN from the same shipment record, so they always agree.
Yes. Dropship purchase orders flow through the same EDI documents and the same ASN rules as DC and direct-to-store orders. Dick's vendor-direct ecommerce program has run on CommerceHub, now Rithum, since 2015, and AIMS360 integrates with Rithum as well as connecting via direct EDI.
Dick's publishes its Domestic Vendor Routing and Supply Chain Guide at dsgfreight.com, organized in numbered sections covering purchase orders, EDI, carton and label requirements, and chargeback research and disputes. Shipments must be routed through Dick's TMS at logistics.dcsg.com at least two business days before the CINSB date.
Yes. Golf Galaxy is on the AIMS360 EDI retailer list alongside Dick's Sporting Goods, and Dick's requires ASNs for purchase orders shipping to Dick's and its affiliate banners. The same AIMS360 connection standards apply across the Dick's family.
Get Started
Bring your Dick's program to a demo and we will walk through the documents, the 1-hour ASN window, the label requirements, and how managed onboarding gets you compliant from the first shipment.
