Native Sun & Ski Sports EDI in AIMS360 for ski, snowboard, bike, swim and outdoor brands: 850 orders in, GS1-128 cartons, and the 856 and 810 from one shipment, on one stock record.
Sun & Ski Sports is a specialty sporting goods chain founded in 1980 and based near Houston, selling ski and snowboard, bike, swim, water sports and outdoor gear. It runs about 30 stores and sunandski.com under Retail Concepts, Inc. AIMS360 runs its EDI on your one stock record.
Yes. Sun & Ski Sports is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner, for its stores and online business. Its 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.
Sun & Ski buys across four seasons of product, from skis and outerwear to bikes and swimwear. The vendor guide it gives your brand sets the documents, the label and where you ship. Our EDI team builds to that guide.
Who you are selling to.
| Topic | Sun & Ski Sports |
|---|---|
| What it is | A specialty sporting goods and outdoor retailer, started in 1980 by Barry Goldware as Tennis and Ski Warehouse. |
| Where | Based in Stafford, Texas, near Houston, with about 30 stores in roughly a dozen states as of 2022, and sunandski.com. |
| What it sells | Ski and snowboard gear, bikes, trail running shoes, swimwear, water sports, hiking gear and activewear, from brands like The North Face, Patagonia, HOKA and Salomon. |
| Company | Retail Concepts, Inc., the name on the sunandski.com copyright. |
History and store count are from Wikipedia; categories and brands are from a KPRC Houston Life segment (May 2026) and sunandski.com, checked 3 November 2026.
Built from the records that run your inventory.
| Document | Direction | How AIMS360 handles it |
|---|---|---|
| EDI 850 purchase order | Sun & Ski 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 Sun & Ski | Built from the cartons your team packed and scanned, and sent when the shipment closes. |
| EDI 810 invoice | You to Sun & Ski | 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 Sun & Ski gives your brand sets the exact list and the label.
What a ski, bike and water sports retailer needs from your system.
Ski outerwear and summer swim ship months apart. A style tagged with a season goes only on orders for that season, so each buy stays in its own window. See styles and colors.
Skis, boards and bikes come in lengths and frame sizes, while helmets and gloves run S to XL. Each lives on the size matrix with its own UPC.
Sun & Ski draws on the same inventory as REI, Scheels and your web orders. Allocation rules decide who gets the last units.
Our EDI team runs this with you.
Your Sun & Ski 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 stores or distribution point 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. Sun & Ski Sports is a live AIMS360 EDI trading partner for its stores and online business. Purchase orders import as sales orders, and the 856 and 810 go back from the shipment.
Retail Concepts, Inc., the company named on sunandski.com. Sun & Ski was founded in 1980 and is based in Stafford, Texas, near Houston.
Ski and snowboard gear, bikes, trail running shoes, swimwear, water sports and hiking gear, from brands such as The North Face, Patagonia, HOKA and Salomon.
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 Sun & Ski purchase order become a sales order, ship with GS1-128 labels and invoice from the same shipment, on a demo built around your line.
