Integrate 3PL or warehouse that uses Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager / 3PL Central with AIMS360 apparel software. Native ERP 3PL Integration.
AIMS360 connects to Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager at the platform level, not the warehouse level. Any third party logistics provider running it can exchange data with your ERP, whether or not that particular warehouse has ever appeared on a partner list. And before a single order moves, AIMS360 pushes your product catalog into the warehouse system, which is the step almost every other apparel ERP leaves to a spreadsheet.
Yes, AIMS360 integrates with Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager, the warehouse platform formerly sold under the name 3PL Central. The connection is built at the warehouse management system level, so every 3PL running Extensiv is reachable, and moving to a different Extensiv warehouse later does not mean rebuilding anything.
Data moves by EDI or by API, whichever the warehouse runs. AIMS360 sends the product catalog, the 940 shipping orders, and advance notice of inbound production. The warehouse returns receipts, shipment confirmations with carton and tracking detail, inventory adjustments, and on-hand snapshots. No Extensiv Integration Manager, formerly CartRover, is required in the middle.
The rebrand landed in May 2022 and the industry never fully switched over. Warehouse operators still say 3PL Central. Software directories still index it. Extensiv's own website still runs customer quotes with the old name in them. If your 3PL says one and your ERP vendor says the other, they are talking about the same software.
| You may still hear | It is now called | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 3PL Central 3PL Warehouse Manager |
Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager | The warehouse management system your 3PL runs on the dock. This is the one AIMS360 connects to. |
| CartRover | Extensiv Integration Manager | A middleware connector. AIMS360 does not need it to reach the warehouse. |
| Skubana | Extensiv Order Manager | Order management for brands. Overlaps with the order management already inside AIMS360, so brands rarely need both. |
| Scout | Extensiv Warehouse Manager | A separate product for brands running their own warehouse. Not the same thing as 3PL Warehouse Manager, despite the near-identical name. |
The two Warehouse Manager products cause real confusion on scoping calls. If your 3PL runs the platform, it is Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager. Ask them to confirm the exact product name before anyone starts mapping. Source: Extensiv's own rebrand announcement.
Most ERP vendors count 3PL connections one warehouse company at a time. That is the wrong unit. Extensiv is the most widely deployed warehouse platform among mid-market third party logistics providers in North America, with more than 1,500 connected 3PLs on it. AIMS360 connects to the platform, so all of them are in range.
It does not need to be. If the 3PL runs Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager, the connection already exists. Nothing custom gets built and nothing gets quoted.
If the new warehouse is also on Extensiv, the integration does not get rebuilt. It gets pointed somewhere new. Switching warehouses should never mean switching ERPs.
East coast and west coast, or wholesale in one building and e-commerce in another. Each is a stocking location in AIMS360, and allocation decides who ships what.
This is why "how many 3PLs are on your list" is the wrong question to ask an ERP vendor. The right question is what happens when your 3PL is not on the list. See how AIMS360 answers that across every 3PL integration.
Most ERP to 3PL integrations start at the order. The item master gets to the warehouse some other way, usually a spreadsheet emailed to an operations manager who types it in. Then a size runs short, a UPC does not match, a case pack is wrong, and the first retailer purchase order of the season is stuck on the dock while two teams argue about whose data was right.
In X12 terms this is an 832 price and sales catalog, the transaction a brand normally uses to publish a product master to a trading partner. Some warehouses prefer to take it as an 888 item maintenance file or an API item call, and AIMS360 sends whichever shape the warehouse accepts. The principle does not change: the item master is authored once, in the ERP, and mirrored everywhere else. See how product data management works upstream of it.
Note where the 856 sits. The advance ship notice is a retailer document, not a warehouse document. The warehouse returns a 945, and AIMS360 builds the ASN, the carton labels, and the invoice from it. Any setup where the 3PL fires the ASN directly is a setup where chargebacks arrive with nobody able to trace them.
On the API rail the same events move with different plumbing. An order push instead of a 940, a shipment webhook instead of a 945, an inventory endpoint instead of an 846. The business logic does not change. Full transaction reference on the 3PL integrations page.
Extensiv warehouses can take data electronically by EDI or by API, and different 3PLs on the same platform make different choices. AIMS360 supports both, so the answer the warehouse gives never turns into a reason you cannot use that warehouse.
The X12 warehouse transaction sets, native in the platform. No VAN bill, no per-document fee, no kilocharacter charge.
For warehouses that would rather write against an endpoint than negotiate an EDI map. Events post as they happen instead of waiting for a batch window.
Brands get into trouble when they let two systems both believe they are in charge. Here is the split that works.
| Job | AIMS360 | Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Styles, colors, sizes, costs | Owns it. The item master lives here, with landed cost and margin. | Receives it from the catalog push. Does not define it. |
| Orders and allocation | Owns it. Wholesale, dropship, DTC, and retail in one order book, allocated against one inventory pool. | Receives orders that are already allocated and ready to pick. |
| Pick, pack, ship | Sends the instruction and the rules. | Owns it. Bins, pickers, cartons, scales, carrier labels. |
| EDI documents and carton labels | Owns it. The 850 in, the 855, the 856, the 810, and GS1-128 carton label data. | Supplies the physical carton detail that makes the ASN true. |
| Inventory of record | Owns it, across every location including 3PLs, your own warehouse, and goods in transit. | Records what is physically on the shelf at that one building. |
| Invoicing, AR, margin | Owns it. The invoice is built from the shipment, so the two can never disagree. | Bills you for storage and handling. Nothing else. |
The warehouse shipped it this morning. Your Shopify store thinks it is still on the shelf. You sell it again by lunch and cancel by Friday.
The ASN does not match what the cartons hold, because the shipment data got rekeyed. The retail distribution center scans, finds the variance, and bills you for it.
Inbound production lands at the warehouse and nobody in the ERP knows for days. Cash is sitting on a dock and your available-to-sell is wrong.
Somebody spends every Friday afternoon comparing a warehouse export to an ERP report. That person is not a bug in the process. They are the process, and they are expensive.
The same AIMS360 implementation manager who demos the platform runs this and stays on the account afterward. No handoff to a stranger halfway through.
EDI or API, and which fields they can send back, especially lot, expiry, and carton detail. Both rails work. The answer just decides how the mapping gets written.
Item data goes over before anything else. Style, color, size, UPC, case pack, carton dimensions, weight, lot flags. This is the step that decides whether go-live takes three weeks or three months.
940 and 943 out. 944, 945, 947, and 846 back. Both sides confirm the fields they can send before anyone writes a mapping, so nothing gets discovered during testing.
Run real orders through the warehouse in test. Confirm the 945 carton detail produces a clean 856 and correct GS1-128 labels. Prove it before a live retailer purchase order is exposed to a chargeback.
Orders route on their own. Shipments, receipts, adjustments, and inventory come back. Exceptions get watched with you through the first season, not just the first week.
A 3PL integration is not one thing. A denim brand needs case packs and size runs. A supplement brand needs lot numbers and expiry dates or it cannot run a recall. A furniture brand needs freight class and damage detail. AIMS360 runs across ten consumer brand industries, and the fields crossing the connection are configured for the category you are in. Those fields ride in the catalog push, so the warehouse holds them from day one.
| Industry | What the connection has to carry |
|---|---|
| Fashion and Apparel | Style, color, size matrices. Case packs and prepacks picked as a unit. Routing guides, carton labels, and ASN carton detail for department store shipments. |
| Footwear | Size-run depth, half sizes, and widths. Core-size stockouts hurt most, so on-hand by size has to be current, not overnight. |
| Jewelry, Bags and Accessories | Serialized and high-value goods, memo and consignment stock, and shrinkage control in a building you do not own. |
| Outdoor and Sporting Goods | Hard goods and technical apparel on one order. Bulky freight, seasonal carryover, and long pre-season buys sitting at the warehouse. |
| Cosmetics, Beauty and Personal Care | Lot and batch numbers, expiration dates, first expired first out picking, and sample or GWP stock that quietly drains sellable inventory. |
| Wellness and Supplements | Lot traceability from receipt to shipment, certificates of analysis, expiry write-offs, and autoship demand hitting the same stock as wholesale. |
| Home, Furniture and Lifestyle | Dimension and material variants, oversized freight and LTL, damage on receipt, and drop-ship programs for big-box home retailers. |
| Household and Home Care | Batch and lot for recall exposure, ingredient documentation, and refill subscription volume running through the same building as retail. |
| Baby and Children's | Safety testing documentation tied to a lot, fast size turnover, and registry channels that expect same-day dispatch. |
| Pet Products | Food and treat expiry, multi-bag size SKUs, autoship forecasting, and distributor shipments alongside DTC out of one pool. |
Ask the warehouse whether it can return these fields before you sign. A 3PL that cannot send back a lot number is a poor fit for a supplement brand no matter how good its pick rate is. See all ten consumer brand industries AIMS360 serves.
Warehouse people speak in numbers and Extensiv speaks in renamed products. Here is what all of it means.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager | The warehouse system your 3PL runs. Called 3PL Warehouse Manager, sold by a company named 3PL Central, until May 2022. |
| Extensiv Integration Manager | Formerly CartRover. A middleware connector. AIMS360 does not need it to reach the warehouse. |
| Extensiv Order Manager | Formerly Skubana. Order management for brands. Overlaps with what AIMS360 already does. |
| EDI 832 | Price and sales catalog. How AIMS360 publishes the item master to the warehouse before the first order. |
| EDI 940 | Warehouse shipping order. You telling the warehouse what to ship and to whom. |
| EDI 943 | Inbound stock transfer advice. Telling the warehouse that production is on its way. |
| EDI 944 | Receipt advice. The warehouse confirming what it received. |
| EDI 945 | Warehouse shipping advice. What left the dock, with carton and tracking detail. |
| EDI 947 | Inventory adjustment advice. A count variance, a damage, or a correction. |
| EDI 846 | Inventory advice. A snapshot of on-hand at that warehouse. |
| EDI 856 | Advance ship notice. Your electronic packing list to the retailer, built from the 945. Not a warehouse document. |
| SSCC / GS1-128 | The serial shipping container code and the barcode carrying it, defined by GS1 US. A distribution center scans it to receive a carton without opening it. |
| FEFO | First expired, first out. How a warehouse should pick lot-dated goods for beauty, wellness, home care, and pet consumables. |
Transaction definitions follow the ASC X12 standard.
That is the point. AIMS360 connects to warehouses on Extensiv and to warehouses on everything else, so nothing we tell you about a 3PL is a pitch for a 3PL. Forty years and ten thousand brands means we have watched warehouses carry a brand through peak season, and we have watched warehouses lose one. Bring us the two or three you are weighing and we will tell you what we know.
Yes. 3PL Central rebranded as Extensiv in May 2022 and the warehouse product is now Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager. Four years on, warehouse teams, brand operators, and software directories still say 3PL Central, and Extensiv's own site still carries customer quotes using the old name. Both point at the same platform, and AIMS360 connects to it either way. See every 3PL integration.
No. AIMS360 connects at the warehouse management system level, not the warehouse company level, so every 3PL running Extensiv is reachable whether or not that warehouse has ever appeared on our partner list. If you move to a different 3PL that also runs Extensiv, the integration is repointed rather than rebuilt. That is the difference between an ERP that connects to a platform and one that connects to a company.
Yes, and most apparel ERPs do not. AIMS360 pushes the catalog as an 832 style item feed or an API item sync: style, color, size, UPC or GTIN, case pack, carton dimensions, weight, and lot or expiry flags. It goes over before the first order and again whenever a style changes. A warehouse cannot pick an item nobody told it about, and item setup by emailed spreadsheet is where most 3PL launches quietly break. More on product data management.
Either. Extensiv warehouses can take data electronically by EDI or by API, and AIMS360 supports both rails. On EDI the set is the 940 and 943 out, and the 944, 945, 947, and 846 back. On the API rail the same events move through endpoints. Different 3PLs on the same platform make different choices, which is exactly why your ERP should not be the constraint. See built-in EDI.
Not with AIMS360. The connection is part of the platform, so there is no separate connector subscription to buy and no second support queue to chase when a sync fails. Lighter apparel systems often route through a middleware layer to reach the same warehouse, which means paying twice for one connection. Our pricing is a flat monthly fee with no per-document or per-transaction charges.
Out of AIMS360: the product catalog, orders to fulfill with style, color, size, quantity, ship-to, carrier and retailer routing requirements, and advance notice of inbound production. Back from the warehouse: receipts, shipment confirmations with carton, weight, SSCC and tracking detail, inventory adjustments, on-hand snapshots, and returns. That shipment data is what feeds an accurate 856 advance ship notice and the invoice behind it.
In the AIMS360 model, no. The 856 is a retailer document, not a warehouse document. The warehouse returns a 945 with carton and tracking detail, and AIMS360 builds the ASN, the GS1-128 carton labels, and the 810 invoice from it. Keeping the ASN in the ERP is what keeps the purchase order, the shipment, and the invoice matched to each other. Mismatches between those three are where chargebacks come from. Browse the EDI retailer list.
The warehouse product is not. Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager is the system your fulfillment partner runs, and it sits underneath the ERP rather than beside it. Extensiv Order Manager, formerly Skubana, does overlap with the order management already built into AIMS360, so brands rarely need both. Think of the warehouse system and the ERP as complementary, with the order layer as the place they overlap.
3PL Warehouse Manager became Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager. CartRover became Extensiv Integration Manager. Skubana became Extensiv Order Manager. Scout became Extensiv Warehouse Manager, a different product aimed at brands running their own warehouse, which causes real confusion on scoping calls. The company name 3PL Central was retired in May 2022. The full mapping is in the table above.
Yes. Internal warehouses on the AIMS360 WMS, third party logistics warehouses, and virtual warehouses run side by side. Allocation runs against one inventory pool and orders route to the location that should ship them. Bulk wholesale out of your own building and e-commerce out of the 3PL is one of the most common shapes we see.
Yes, where the warehouse returns it. Beauty, wellness, household care, and pet consumables need lot and expiry on the receipt and the shipment, plus first expired first out picking. Jewelry needs serialized detail. Those flags ride in the catalog push, so the warehouse holds them from day one rather than discovering them during an audit.
Most connections move through scoping, catalog alignment, document mapping, testing, and go-live in weeks rather than months. The slow part is almost never the software. It is agreeing on item data between the brand and the warehouse, which is exactly why AIMS360 pushes the catalog instead of emailing a spreadsheet. Your implementation manager runs the schedule with your warehouse team.
AIMS360 is the source of truth for styles, costs, orders, allocation, EDI, invoicing, and margin. Extensiv is the source of truth for what physically happened on the dock at that warehouse. The integration keeps the two aligned so nobody reconciles them by spreadsheet at month end. See reporting and accounting.
Returns come back to the warehouse, get received, and post against the original shipment so inventory and receivables stay accurate. Warehouses differ in how they grade and restock returned goods, so this is one of the details worth nailing down during scoping. More on returns management.
Then AIMS360 connects to whatever it does run. If a warehouse can exchange EDI, expose an API, or drop a file on a schedule, it can be connected. Extensiv is one platform among many, and AIMS360 already exchanges data with dozens of fulfillment partners across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Start with the 3PL integration directory, and if your warehouse is not there, ask us by name rather than assuming a custom build.
Yes, and we have no stake in the answer, because AIMS360 connects to all of them. Over 40 years and 10,000+ brands we have seen which warehouse systems behave, which integrations go smoothly, and where brands in a given category have run into trouble. Bring the two or three warehouses you are weighing. We will tell you what we know about each, put the evaluation questions to them with you, and build the connection to whichever one you choose. Talk through your shortlist.
If your 3PL is on Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager and you are still reconciling shipments by email, that is a solved problem. Show us how you fulfill today and we will show you what the connected version looks like.
Written by Shahrooz Kohan, CEO and Co-Founder, AIMS360. Reviewed by the AIMS360 EDI and implementation teams. Updated July 2026.
AIMS360 has built software for consumer brands since 1984. Transaction set definitions follow the ASC X12 standard. Extensiv, 3PL Warehouse Manager, 3PL Central, Integration Manager, Order Manager, Skubana, Scout, and CartRover are trademarks of their respective owner and are referenced here for identification only. AIMS360 makes no claim of ownership over any trademark other than its own.
