AIMS360 runs live Walmart Canada EDI programs today. Walmart Canada is a separate vendor agreement with its own compliance rules, bilingual labeling and Canadian dollar invoicing, on the same stock record as your US accounts.
Walmart Canada is not a checkbox on your US Walmart setup. It is a separate operating company with its own vendor agreement, its own distribution network, bilingual labeling law behind it and Canadian dollars on the invoice. AIMS360 runs live Walmart Canada programs today, natively over EDI, on the same stock record as your US accounts.
Yes, and not just in theory. AIMS360 runs live Walmart Canada programs today, natively over EDI, as part of the ERP rather than a separate subscription. Purchase orders, acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices move between Walmart Canada and the same order and inventory record that runs your US retail accounts, with the Canadian specifics, bilingual labeling, Canadian dollar invoicing and Walmart Canada's own compliance rules, handled as configuration rather than as a second system.
The mistake brands make with Walmart Canada is assuming it is an address change. It is closer to opening a new retailer that happens to share a parent with one you already have: new agreement, new buyers, new item setup, new scorecard, and a border in the middle of your supply chain. The technology transfers better than the relationship does.
Walmart entered Canada on 17 March 1994 by buying the Woolco chain from F.W. Woolworth, 122 stores at the time. Today Walmart Canada runs roughly 400 stores from Mississauga, Ontario, in almost every province and territory. Here is what that means for a vendor.
| What you assume carries over | What is actually true |
|---|---|
| The vendor agreement | Separate. Walmart Canada onboards suppliers under its own agreement, with its own buying organization and its own item setup and testing. |
| The portal | Familiar. Suppliers work in Retail Link and EDI setup runs through Walmart's mailbox infrastructure, which is one of the few places US experience genuinely transfers. |
| The distribution network | Its own, including the Cornwall, Ontario distribution center Walmart Canada acquired from Target Canada in 2015. Routing and receiving are Canadian decisions. |
| The compliance program | Its own. Do not assume the widely quoted US OTIF thresholds carry over. The numbers that matter are the ones on your Canadian vendor agreement and scorecard, so confirm them in Retail Link and manage to those. |
| The label | Bilingual, and that is Canadian law before it is Walmart policy. Federal packaging rules require English and French on consumer product labels, and Quebec adds its own French language requirements on top. |
| The invoice | Canadian dollars, Canadian purchase orders, Canadian taxes. Same discipline as anywhere: it has to match the order and the shipment exactly. |
| Sam's Club | Does not exist in Canada. Walmart closed the Canadian clubs in 2009, so a Sam's Club program means the US clubs. See Sam's Club EDI. |
The transaction sets are the familiar X12 retail core: the 850 purchase order, the 856 advance ship notice, the 810 invoice and the 997 acknowledgment, with GS1-128 carton labels on the freight and item data on GS1 standards. What changes is the configuration underneath: a separate trading partner relationship, Canadian qualifiers and identifiers, and program specifics set in Walmart Canada's own vendor documentation during onboarding.
English and French reach into product data, packaging, hang tags and care labels. Settle it before EDI testing starts, because no document format fixes a label that does not comply.
Canadian purchase orders are priced, invoiced and paid in CAD, with Canadian taxes in the picture. The invoice generated from what shipped keeps the money side as honest as the freight side.
Working with a customs broker on duties, taxes and clearance is well trodden ground. The right structure depends on your products and volumes, so settle it with a broker and your accountant, and let the ERP carry the operational side.
Stock committed to Canada can be separated with a virtual warehouse, so a US program never quietly sells units your Canadian orders were promised, and allocation rules arbitrate when they compete.
AIMS360 runs Walmart Canada programs in production today, so the maps, labels and document flows are configured from working patterns rather than built from a blank page.
Walmart Canada lands in order management beside Walmart US, your other retailers, wholesale and DTC.
The EDI is part of the ERP, covering 350+ retailers, and AIMS360 charges no per document or per kilocharacter fees of its own. See native EDI.
A third party 3PL, on either side of the border, maps to a real location so the ASN and tracking reflect where the freight actually left.
Yes, and not just in theory: AIMS360 runs live Walmart Canada programs today, natively over EDI, as part of the ERP rather than a separate subscription. Purchase orders, acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices move between Walmart Canada and the same order and inventory record that runs your US retail accounts.
The technology rhymes and the relationship does not. Walmart Canada uses the same X12 transaction sets and the setup runs through the familiar Retail Link and mailbox infrastructure, but it is a separate trading partner relationship with its own vendor agreement, its own buying organization, its own distribution network and its own compliance program. Being live with Walmart US does not make you live with Walmart Canada.
Yes. Walmart Canada is its own operating company, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, with roughly 400 stores, and it onboards suppliers under its own agreement with its own item setup and testing. Treat it as opening a new retailer that happens to share a parent with one you already have.
They come from Canadian law before they come from Walmart. Federal packaging rules require consumer product labels in English and French, and Quebec adds its own French language requirements on top. That reaches into product data, packaging, hang tags and care labels, so it is a product readiness question to settle before EDI testing starts, not after.
The familiar X12 retail set: the 850 purchase order, 856 advance ship notice, 810 invoice and 997 functional acknowledgment, with GS1-128 carton labels on the freight. The mapping details, qualifiers and program specifics are set in Walmart Canada's own vendor documentation during onboarding, so confirm your set there rather than assuming the US configuration carries over.
Yes, Walmart Canada suppliers work in Retail Link for data and scorecards, and EDI setup runs through Walmart's mailbox infrastructure, which is one of the few places the US experience genuinely transfers. The vendor agreement, item setup and compliance program remain Canadian.
Walmart Canada runs its own delivery compliance program, and the honest answer is that the thresholds that matter are the ones in your Canadian vendor agreement and scorecard, not the widely quoted US OTIF numbers. Do not assume the 98 percent US figure carries over. Confirm your current Canadian targets in Retail Link and hold your operation to those.
Many US brands ship Walmart Canada as nonresident importers, working with a customs broker on duties, taxes and clearance. It is well trodden ground, but the right structure depends on your products and volumes, so settle it with a customs broker and your accountant during onboarding. What AIMS360 handles is the operational side: the orders, the documents, the labels and the inventory, wherever the freight crosses.
In Canadian dollars, against Canadian purchase orders, with Canadian taxes in the picture. The invoice still has to match the order and the shipment exactly, which is why it should be generated from what shipped rather than typed. Currency is configuration. Accuracy is the part that protects you.
Partly, and we are precise about which part. Walmart de Mexico, Walmex, is a separately listed company, and Mexican law requires CFDI electronic invoices stamped through a SAT authorized provider, which is a different animal from a US style EDI invoice. AIMS360 can exchange the EDI documents; the CFDI invoicing side runs through a Mexican e-invoicing provider. If Walmex is on your roadmap, raise it during evaluation and we will walk through exactly how the pieces fit.
Yes, and that is the point of doing this in the ERP. US and Canadian programs arrive on their own trading partner relationships, but they draw on one inventory truth, with allocation rules deciding deliberately when programs compete and virtual warehouses separating stock that is committed to one market. The alternative is two systems and a reconciliation spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet always loses eventually.
No. Walmart closed its Canadian Sam's Club locations in 2009, so a Sam's Club program means the US clubs. Walmart Canada's banners are the supercentres and discount stores, roughly 400 of them, almost coast to coast.
Last reviewed 7 August 2026 by the AIMS360 EDI team. Walmart entered Canada on 17 March 1994 through the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F.W. Woolworth Company. Store counts are as reported for late 2022, roughly 400 stores including 344 supercentres and 59 discount stores, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, with the Cornwall, Ontario distribution center acquired from Target Canada in 2015. Sam's Club's Canadian locations closed in 2009. Bilingual labeling requirements come from Canadian federal packaging law, with additional French language requirements in Quebec. Walmart Canada's delivery compliance thresholds are set in its own vendor documentation and are deliberately not quoted here. The statement that AIMS360 runs live Walmart Canada programs is current as of this review date. Retailer programs and requirements change, so confirm current specifics in Retail Link and with your Walmart Canada contact.
Bring your Walmart Canada onboarding pack, or just the ambition, to a demo. We will walk through the documents, the bilingual label question and how one stock record serves both sides of the border.
