Create retailer-compliant VICS BOLs (VICS Bills of Lading) instantly with AIMS360 apparel ERP software—streamlining fashion shipping, reducing errors, and ensuring compliance for every order.
AIMS360 turns your retail order into a compliant VICS bill of lading—the 17-digit GS1 US BOL number, scannable barcodes, and an exact match to your EDI 856 ASN and UCC-128 labels. No template to maintain. No double entry.
Most brands hand-type bills of lading from a blank form or a carrier portal, then re-key the same data into their ASN and labels. AIMS360 is apparel software that generates all three from one source, so the documents always agree and the chargebacks that come from mismatches stop happening.
AIMS360 pulls Ship From, Ship To, PO numbers, carton counts, and weights straight from the order and pick ticket—no template, no spreadsheet, no retyping.
A 16-digit base from your GS1 US Company Prefix and serial, plus a Modulo-10 check digit—calculated for you and printed as a GS1-128 barcode.
The BOL, the EDI 856 ASN, and the UCC-128 labels come from the same data, so all three documents agree by design.
Every required field already lives in the system, so producing a compliant bill of lading is a short workflow rather than a manual exercise. This is how the VICS BOL function runs inside the AIMS360 apparel EDI software.
The retail order flows in and is picked and packed in Scan & Pack.
Ship From, Ship To, POs, carton counts, and weights are pulled in for you.
Carrier, SCAC, and PRO—populated from the shipment so there is nothing to look up.
The serial increments from your GS1 US prefix and the Mod-10 check digit is calculated automatically.
The GS1-128 barcodes for the BOL number, SCAC, and PRO print to the standard layout.
Send a PDF to your carrier or 3PL, and archive the BOL against the order for audits.
A blank PDF or Excel template works for one or two shipments. Once you are shipping several retail orders a week, the manual 17-digit number math, the typos that turn into deductions, the missing barcode, and the disconnect from your ASN make templates the most expensive way to ship. AIMS360 removes all of it, and the same fashion ERP software handles your EDI, WMS, and accounting in one place.
It is backed by dedicated apparel-EDI specialists—not a generic helpdesk—who read each retailer's routing guide, configure the maps, and keep your BOL aligned with the current GS1 US standard as it changes. See the retailers AIMS360 is already certified with on the EDI retailer integration list.
VICS BOL software produces a GS1 US–standard VICS bill of lading from your order data instead of from a blank form. AIMS360 builds the BOL from the retail order and pick/pack data, calculates the 17-digit BOL number with a valid check digit, prints the barcodes, and archives the document against the originating order—so there is no template to maintain and no double entry.
AIMS360 pulls Ship From, Ship To, PO numbers, carton counts, and weights from the retail order and the pick ticket, generates the 17-digit GS1 US BOL number, and prints the BOL to the standard layout with a bar-coded BOL number, SCAC, and PRO. You confirm carrier and load details on one screen, then print, email, or export a PDF.
The 17-digit VICS BOL number—formally the GS1 US Bill of Lading Number—is a 16-digit base made of your GS1 US Company Prefix plus a sequential serial reference, zero-padded to 16 digits, with a Modulo-10 check digit added at the end for the full 17 digits. AIMS360 stores your prefix, increments the serial for every shipment, and calculates the check digit automatically, so the number is always valid and unique.
Yes. The BOL, the EDI 856 ASN, and the UCC-128 carton labels are all generated from the same order and pick/pack data, so PO numbers, carton counts, and handling-unit detail agree across all three documents. Mismatches between these documents are one of the most common root causes of retailer chargebacks.
Yes. “VICS BOL” is the common industry name for what is now formally the GS1 US Bill of Lading. The standard originated with the Voluntary Inter-Industry Commerce Standards (VICS), which merged into GS1 US in 2012; GS1 US has maintained the standard ever since. Most retailers and brands still call it the VICS BOL, and AIMS360 generates it to the current GS1 US standard.
No. AIMS360 replaces blank PDF, Excel, and Word templates. The BOL is generated from your order in one step, so there is no template to fill in, no formulas to maintain, and no fields to re-type for each shipment.
Yes. For EDI bulk and dropship retail orders, AIMS360 generates the VICS BOL from the order and pick/pack data, so the BOL ties back to the EDI 850 purchase order and forward to the EDI 856 ASN. Because the documents share one source of data, the BOL, the ASN, and the labels stay consistent for the whole shipment.
AIMS360 generates VICS bills of lading for shipments to major U.S. retailers including Macy's, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Belk, Saks Fifth Avenue, Kohl's, Dillard's, JCPenney, Neiman Marcus, TJX, Ross, Target, Walmart, and Costco, backed by 350+ EDI retailer integrations and dedicated apparel-EDI specialists who keep your setup aligned with each retailer's routing guide.
Yes. The BOL prints to the GS1 US standard layout with the bar-coded 17-digit BOL number, can be emailed or exported as a PDF to your carrier and 3PL, and is archived against the originating order and PO for chargeback disputes and audits.
A free VICS BOL PDF or fillable form makes you hand-enter every field, hand-calculate the 17-digit BOL number and check digit, produces no barcode, and keeps no link to your EDI 856 ASN. AIMS360 automates all of it from the order. For a full comparison of templates, PDFs, and the standard itself, see the complete VICS bill of lading guide.
Yes. Your GS1 US Company Prefix forms the front of the 17-digit BOL number—the same prefix used for your UCC-128 carton labels and GTINs. If you do not have one yet, your AIMS360 implementation specialist walks you through obtaining it from GS1 US.
Yes. AIMS360 has dedicated apparel-EDI specialists on staff—not a generic helpdesk—who read each retailer's routing guide, configure the BOL and label setup, and run certification. Because the VICS BOL function is built into the apparel ERP and pulls from data already in your system, most brands are generating compliant BOLs as soon as their items, GS1 prefix, and retailer rules are configured during implementation.
See how AIMS360 generates a compliant VICS BOL from your retail order—with the 17-digit GS1 US number, barcodes, and a matching ASN applied automatically.
