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Lowe's EDI Integration for Home Improvement Vendors

Pipe17 runs your Lowe’s EDI program as managed EDI and fills each purchase order from the inventory behind your web store and marketplaces, whether it restocks Lowe’s stores or ships to a Lowes.com customer.
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The Challenge of Home Improvement EDI

Program Rules and Seasonal Peaks

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Two Lowe's Programs, Two Rulebooks

Direct replenishment and Lowes.com drop ship each come with their own documents and rules. Working both by hand doubles the chances of a miss.

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Seasonal Swings in Demand

Spring projects and storm recovery push Lowe's demand up fast. Inventory advice built from yesterday's counts promises stock that is already gone.

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Carton Detail That Must Match

EDI providers report that Lowe's checks each GS1-128 carton label against the ship notice. A mismatch keyed by hand can come back as a deduction.

The Solution for Lowe's EDI Integration & Order Management

Lowe's Defines the Documents. Pipe17 Handles What Comes After.

Hand your Lowe’s EDI to Pipe17’s managed EDI, or keep it with your provider. The weak point sits downstream: bespoke scripts and a legacy OMS filling Lowe’s orders from stock kept apart from ecommerce. Pipe17’s Order Operations Platform does away with both, putting one inventory count behind every Lowe’s PO.
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Build Success with Lowe's and Pipe17

Run Lowe’s through the platform that already handles your web and marketplace orders, with one live inventory pool and one order history per Lowe’s PO, from the 850 to the 810.
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Each Program on Its Own Connection

Direct and drop-ship Lowe's programs each get their own mapping, while both share your inventory and routing rules.

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Inventory Ready for Peak Season

Lowe's gets 846 inventory advice drawn from live counts across your warehouses, and spring demand meets stock you actually have.

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Carton Data That Agrees

The label data your packers print and the carton detail in the 856 come from the same confirmed shipment and line up.

Automated Lowe's EDI Flows

Pipe17 joins your Lowe’s trading-partner setup over managed EDI, for orders Lowe’s sends directly and for Lowes.com drop ship orders that come through Rithum. Each document below follows the implementation guide Lowe’s gives your program.
  • Pull Orders from Lowe’s. A Lowe’s purchase order (850) arrives in Pipe17 as an order routing can assign to a shipping location, whether it replenishes stores or goes to a Lowes.com drop-ship customer.
  • Push Order Confirmations to Lowe’s. Where your product category calls for an 855, Pipe17 answers the Lowe’s PO line by line, confirming full quantities or the partial amount you can supply.
  • Push Fulfillments to Lowe’s. Pipe17 builds the 856 from cartons that your warehouse or 3PL has confirmed, mapped to the carton-level detail EDI providers list for Lowe’s, such as each carton’s SSCC and PO.
  • Push Inventory to Lowe’s. Stock you set aside for Lowe’s goes out in an 846 inventory advice, counted from the same warehouses that fill your online orders. Lowe’s sees only stock you can ship.
  • Push Invoices to Lowe’s. With the shipment confirmed, the 810 bills Lowe’s for the quantities shipped on that PO, matching the ship notice and the order.
  • Confirm Receipt of Every Lowe’s Document. A 997 functional acknowledgment goes back to Lowe’s for each transmission Pipe17 takes in.
  • Take In Lowe’s PO Changes. Where your category receives 860 change requests from Lowe’s, Pipe17 takes them in and acknowledges each one with a 997.
  • Receive Lowe’s Remittance Advice. Suppliers on the direct Lowe’s program can receive the 820 remittance advice that explains each Lowe’s payment.
  • Pass Carton Label Data to the Dock. Through Pipe17’s API, your warehouse team or 3PL requests GS1-128 (UCC-128) data for each Lowe’s carton and prints the label. What the labels cover is agreed program by program.
  • Choose the Location That Ships. Pipe17 picks the warehouse or 3PL with stock on hand for each Lowe’s PO, drop-ship orders bound for a Lowes.com customer’s address included.
  • Post Lowe’s Sales in Your ERP. Lowe’s orders can land as sales orders in an ERP such as Acumatica or NetSuite, next to revenue from your other channels.
  • Exchange 940s and 945s with a 3PL. For a 3PL that works over warehouse EDI, Pipe17 sends each Lowe’s order as a 940 and takes the 3PL’s 945 confirmation back in.
  • Flag Lowe’s Orders for a Second Look. Automation Engine rules can hold, tag, or reroute a Lowe’s order before it reaches the warehouse.

Connect Lowe's EDI to Your Building Network

Lowe’s orders share warehouses with your website, your marketplace listings, and other home improvement accounts. Pipe17 gives all of them one inventory pool, so a unit promised to Lowe’s is not sold twice.

Fill Every Lowe's PO from One Inventory Count

Bring your Lowe’s program, direct or drop ship, and we will map how each Lowe’s document would move through Pipe17 alongside your ecommerce and marketplace orders.
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Lowe's EDI Integration FAQs

Yes, Pipe17 carries Lowes.com drop-ship orders that arrive through Rithum, formerly CommerceHub, as a managed EDI connection apart from direct replenishment. Each purchase order (850) carries the shopper's address, and ship notices (856), invoices (810), and 846 inventory advice return over managed EDI, the 846 counted from stock your Shopify or other store also sells. For API access, Pipe17 offers a CommerceHub DSCO connection.

EDI providers describe Lowe's as expecting a GS1-128 (UCC-128) label on every carton, with its SSCC-18 barcode matching what the advance ship notice (856) lists for that carton, including SKU, quantity, and PO. Pipe17 builds each 856 from cartons your warehouse confirmed, and its API hands the GS1-128 label data to whoever packs and labels them, per your program's scope.

Pipe17's managed EDI covers the inbound Lowe's purchase order (850) and the outbound acknowledgment (855), ship notice (856), inventory advice (846), and invoice (810), and acknowledges purchase order changes (860) with a 997. EDI providers report the 855 and 860 depend on product category. Direct-program suppliers also get remittance advice (820). The 824 application advice comes in where your category uses it, beyond the core X12 list for managed EDI.

Compliance guides name routing violations, late or mismatched ship notices, label errors, late arrivals, and pallet faults as common Lowe's chargebacks. Pipe17 handles the documents, sending each ship notice (856) built from the confirmed carton data behind your GS1-128 labels. Freight routing, the bill of lading, and pallets stay with your shipping team. Each document sits on the EDI order route, from purchase order (850) to invoice (810).

Lowe's points current vendors to LowesLink, its vendor portal, where EDI providers report its specifications and implementation guides are posted, and orders start once Lowe's approves your tests. You introduce Pipe17 to your Lowe's EDI contacts and share your vendor ID and items. Pipe17 then maps every document to those guides, runs the tests, and adds Lowe's to your Pipe17 Network partners. The managed EDI onboarding steps cover the rest.

Yes, your Lowe's provider stays in place, whether SPS Commerce or another, since Pipe17 links to that provider or pulls orders from the ERP it feeds, and suppliers with no provider can get managed EDI instead.