Native Famous Footwear EDI in AIMS360 for footwear brands selling to the Caleres family shoe chain: orders in by size and width, GS1-128 cartons, and the 856 and 810 from one shipment.
Famous Footwear is the family shoe chain of St. Louis-based Caleres, with 821 stores and famousfootwear.com. It sells brands like Nike, Skechers, adidas, Crocs and Converse beside its own labels. If you sell it shoes, AIMS360 runs the EDI on the same stock record as your other accounts.
Yes. Famous Footwear is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner. Its purchase orders arrive as the 850 and become sales orders against your styles, colors, sizes and widths. AIMS360 prints GS1-128 carton labels, sends the 856 ship notice and bills the 810 invoice from the same shipment.
Famous Footwear moves product through regional third-party pooled distribution sites, with stores getting deliveries weekly or more often. The vendor guide Caleres gives your brand sets where you ship, the documents and the label. Our EDI team builds to it.
Who you are selling to.
| Topic | Famous Footwear |
|---|---|
| What it is | A family footwear chain owned by Caleres, which calls it one of America's leading family-branded footwear retailers. |
| Stores | 821 at January 31, 2026, down from 846 a year earlier, in 49 states, Canada and Guam. |
| Online | famousfootwear.com and famousfootwear.ca. Stores fulfill about two-thirds of online orders that are not picked up in store. |
| Brands | Nike, Skechers, adidas, Crocs and Converse, plus Caleres brands such as Dr. Scholl's Shoes, LifeStride and Naturalizer. |
Figures are from Caleres' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2026. Caleres is based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Built from the records that run your inventory.
| Document | Direction | How AIMS360 handles it |
|---|---|---|
| EDI 850 purchase order | Famous Footwear to you | Imported as a sales order and matched to your catalog by UPC, with the ship-to, ship date and cancel date on the order. |
| EDI 856 ship notice (ASN) | You to Famous Footwear | Built from the cartons your team packed and scanned, and sent when the shipment closes. |
| EDI 810 invoice | You to Famous Footwear | Generated from the same shipment, so the PO, the ASN and the invoice agree line for line. |
| EDI 997 acknowledgment | Both ways | Returned for each document received and tracked for each one sent. |
| GS1-128 carton label | On every carton | Printed as cartons close, with the same SSCC written into the 856. |
| EDI 855, 860 and 846 | If the guide lists them | Acknowledgments, changes and inventory, built into the same connection when your vendor guide asks for them. |
This is the standard retailer set AIMS360 runs. The vendor guide Caleres issues to your brand sets the exact list and the label.
What footwear needs from your system.
Footwear runs by length and width. AIMS360 holds width as its own dimension on the size matrix, with a UPC for every size and width.
Toddler, youth and adult sizes sit on their own size scales, so a family store order can mix them and still ship on one ASN.
If Famous Footwear buys size-run prepacks, AIMS360 holds the pack as its own unit on the order, the label and the ASN. See case packs and prepacks.
Famous Footwear draws on the same inventory as DSW, Journeys, Zappos and your own site. Allocation rules decide who gets the short sizes.
Our EDI team runs this with you.
Your Famous Footwear buyer issues the vendor number. Send the vendor guide to our EDI team.
Add the vendor number, ship via and terms, pick the trading partner and switch on the documents the guide lists.
Add the distribution sites or stores the guide names, matched to the codes on the 850.
Approve a sample GS1-128 label, run a test 850 through the 856 and 810, then we watch the first live order.
Yes. Famous Footwear is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner. Purchase orders import as sales orders by size and width, and the 856 and 810 go back from the shipment your team packed.
Caleres, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Caleres also owns brands such as Naturalizer, Dr. Scholl's Shoes and LifeStride, which Famous Footwear sells beside outside brands.
821 at January 31, 2026, in 49 states, Canada and Guam, per Caleres' annual report.
No. EDI is built into AIMS360 as an add-on on any plan, Bronze through Gold, with unlimited transactions and a trading partner line for each retailer. There are no per-document, VAN or kilocharacter fees. See pricing.
If it is your first EDI retailer, it goes live inside the AIMS360 implementation, which runs 3 to 16 weeks. A retailer added later usually takes 2 to 4 weeks, and the variable is mostly the retailer's own testing calendar.
See a Famous Footwear purchase order land by size and width, ship with GS1-128 labels and invoice from the same shipment.
