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Restaurant Depot EDI Integration for Foodservice Wholesale

Food and supply brands stocking Restaurant Depot’s cash and carry warehouses get Restaurant Depot POs, ship notices, and invoices run as managed EDI, out of the same inventory their other channels sell.
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The Challenge of Wholesale Foodservice EDI

Bulk Operations and Professional Kitchen Demands

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Case Quantities on Every Line

Wholesale purchase orders often come in cases, not units. Rekeyed by hand, a pack-size mismatch ships the wrong amount to a Restaurant Depot warehouse.

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Warehouse Shelves That Must Stay Full

Restaurant Depot members shop cash and carry warehouse stores and buy on the spot. A late or short delivery leaves a gap on a busy aisle.

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Stock Promised Twice

When Restaurant Depot orders and your other channels keep separate counts, the same cases can be committed to two buyers at once.

The Solution for Restaurant Depot EDI Integration & Order Management

Restaurant Depot Serves the Kitchens. Pipe17 Serves the Suppliers Behind Them.

Choose Pipe17’s managed EDI for Restaurant Depot documents, or keep the EDI provider handling them today. The harder part sits downstream: custom code and a legacy OMS treating foodservice orders apart from ecommerce inventory. Pipe17’s Order Operations Platform retires both, and each Restaurant Depot order ships from one stock count.
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The OMS Alternative for Omnichannel Brands and Fulfillment Providers

Power Professional Kitchens with Pipe17

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Case Orders Without Retyping

Restaurant Depot purchase orders arrive as orders, with each line mapped to your SKUs and routed to whichever site has the product.

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One Count Behind Every Channel

Restaurant Depot orders, distributor orders, and web sales pull from a single live inventory pool, and each case is promised once.

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Paperwork That Matches the Truck

Ship notices and invoices are built from what your warehouse recorded as shipped, not from the original order.

Automated Restaurant Depot EDI Flows

Pipe17 reaches Restaurant Depot’s EDI program through managed EDI, and a wholesale order from its warehouses then moves through the same steps as any other order you fill. The documents and steps are below.
  • Pull Orders from Restaurant Depot. Each Restaurant Depot purchase order (850) sent over EDI arrives on Pipe17’s managed EDI connection, and Pipe17 translates its item numbers, quantities, and ship-to warehouse into your SKUs and locations.
  • Push Order Confirmations to Restaurant Depot. When Restaurant Depot wants its purchase orders acknowledged (855), Pipe17 answers line by line, accepting the order or trimming a quantity to what you can actually supply.
  • Push Fulfillments to Restaurant Depot. After the truck is loaded, Pipe17 transmits the 856 ship notice with the cases and quantities your warehouse or 3PL recorded, giving the receiving warehouse an accurate picture of what is coming.
  • Push Inventory to Restaurant Depot. If your Restaurant Depot program takes inventory advice, Pipe17 sends an 846 that reflects live stock at the sites you choose to share.
  • Push Invoices to Restaurant Depot. Once a shipment is recorded, the 810 invoice follows with the quantities that went out on it, so Restaurant Depot is billed for what actually shipped.
  • Return a 997 for Each Transmission. Every document Restaurant Depot sends gets a 997 functional acknowledgment back from Pipe17, a receipt both trading partners can check.
  • Assign Each Order to a Warehouse. Your rules decide which of your own warehouses or 3PLs fills a Restaurant Depot order, based on where the inventory sits.
  • Book Wholesale Orders in Your ERP. Restaurant Depot orders flow into your ERP, such as NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, or Acumatica, and are booked beside your ecommerce and direct sales.
  • Give the Warehouse Case Label Data. When a Restaurant Depot shipment needs GS1-128 (UCC-128) case labels, your warehouse or 3PL requests the data through Pipe17’s API and labels the cases. Coverage is agreed per program.
  • Exchange Orders With an EDI 3PL. A 3PL that works over EDI receives each Restaurant Depot order as a 940 shipping order from Pipe17 and replies with a 945, which confirms the shipment.
  • Hold Problem Orders for Review. The Automation Engine flags a Restaurant Depot order with an unknown item or a broken rule, and your team clears it before a reply document goes out.

Connect Restaurant Depot EDI to Your Foodservice Network

Run Restaurant Depot beside your broadline distributors, web store, and direct restaurant accounts from one Order Operations Platform. Wholesale cases and online orders come out of a single inventory and follow the same rules.

Fill Restaurant Depot Orders From the Stock You Already Track

Work Restaurant Depot purchase orders in the same place you run distributor, online, and direct restaurant sales. On a call, we will go through your Restaurant Depot documents, warehouses, and ERP with you.
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Restaurant Depot EDI Integration FAQs

Pipe17's managed EDI runs the standard X12 set for a Restaurant Depot program: the purchase order (850) coming in, then the purchase order acknowledgment (855), advance ship notice (856), the 846 inventory advice, and the 810 invoice sent back, each confirmed with a functional acknowledgment (997). Restaurant Depot decides which documents and formats your account trades, and that is confirmed before setup begins.

Jetro Cash & Carry orders and Restaurant Depot orders pull from one inventory in Pipe17's Order Operations Platform. The two banners already share a supplier side: Jetro runs on the Restaurant Depot website, and one vendor portal serves Jetro/Restaurant Depot trading partners. Whether Jetro purchase orders (850) arrive under the same EDI identifiers as Restaurant Depot's is confirmed during setup.

Suppliers check the Jetro/Restaurant Depot Vendor Portal, which lists open invoices accepted for payment and each check or EFT payment with its remittance details. Registering takes a recently paid invoice. Pipe17 sends each invoice (810) from the shipment your warehouse confirmed, and the order is already in NetSuite or another ERP, as managed EDI with your ERP describes.

Because Restaurant Depot sells most items by the case, its purchase orders (850) typically commit whole cases. Pipe17 counts them against the inventory pool that orders from an ecommerce platform such as Shopify, and from Amazon or another marketplace, draw on. Any inventory advice (846) sent to Restaurant Depot comes from that count, and each case is counted once.

No, Pipe17 sells managed EDI only with its Order Operations Platform. The suppliers Pipe17 fits are foodservice brands that also sell through a web store, a marketplace, or other wholesale accounts.