Native EDI with NFL team retail in AIMS360 for licensed apparel and merchandise brands: team purchase orders in, GS1-128 cartons, the 856 and 810 from one shipment, and royalties by style.
NFL teams sell licensed apparel and merchandise through their own stadium and team stores, and some hand their stores or websites to an operator. When a team buys from your brand by EDI, AIMS360 runs the order on the same stock record as your other accounts.
Yes. NFL team retail, such as the Dallas Cowboys, is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner listing. Team purchase orders arrive as the 850 and become sales orders against your styles, colors and sizes. AIMS360 prints GS1-128 carton labels, sends the 856 ship notice and bills the 810 invoice from the same shipment.
Who sends the purchase order depends on the team. Some clubs run their own stores; others give retail to an operator. The Cowboys, for example, moved their online Pro Shop to Fanatics in 2021. Your vendor setup follows whoever buys.
Team-run, operator-run, or both.
| Who runs the store | Who sends your PO | What to set up |
|---|---|---|
| The team | The club's own merchandising or retail team. | A customer account for the team, with each store or stadium location as a ship-to. |
| An operator | The operator that runs the team store or site, such as Fanatics. | The operator's vendor setup, which may cover many teams. See Fanatics EDI. |
| Both | The team for its stores and the operator for online, as with the Cowboys since 2021. | One account per buyer, all on one stock record. |
The Cowboys and Fanatics signed a 10-year exclusive deal for the team's online and mobile store in September 2021, after the Cowboys had run their own e-commerce. Ask your buyer which entity issues your POs.
Built from the records that run your inventory.
| Document | Direction | How AIMS360 handles it |
|---|---|---|
| EDI 850 purchase order | The team 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 the team | Built from the cartons your team packed and scanned, and sent when the shipment closes. |
| EDI 810 invoice | You to the team | 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 from the team or its operator sets the exact list and the label.
What team product needs from your system.
Licensed apparel carries a royalty to the licensor. AIMS360 tags each licensed style, computes royalties by rate and tracks minimum guarantees, as it does for Disney licensees.
Each team version is its own style or color in AIMS360, with a UPC for every size, so the 850 line, the label and the ASN point to the same unit.
Team stores draw on the same inventory as your sporting goods, fan shop and online accounts. Allocation rules decide who gets a hot team's last units.
Our EDI team runs this with you.
Ask whether the team or an operator issues your POs, and get the vendor number and guide from that buyer.
Add the vendor number, ship via and terms, pick the trading partner and switch on the documents the guide lists.
Add the stadium store, team stores and any warehouse as ship-to points matched to 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. NFL team retail, such as the Dallas Cowboys, is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner listing. Team POs import as sales orders, and the 856 and 810 go back from the shipment your team packed.
It depends on the team. Some clubs buy for their own stores; others give retail to an operator such as Fanatics, which runs the Cowboys' online Pro Shop under a 10-year deal signed in 2021.
Yes. Licensed styles are tagged in AIMS360, and royalties are computed by rate with minimum guarantees tracked. Your license agreement sets the rate and the approved channels.
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 team store purchase order become a sales order, ship with GS1-128 labels and invoice from the same shipment, with royalties tracked by style.
