Infocon Systems is a preferred EDI provider for The Home Depot. The Home Depot lists Infocon Systems among the EDI providers it recognizes for supplier onboarding, which means Home Depot suppliers can connect through a provider that already runs a production Home Depot connection, maintains current Home Depot maps, and knows the testing process end to end.
Home Depot treats EDI as a condition of doing business with its merchandise suppliers. Purchase orders, acknowledgments, ship notices, and invoices all move electronically in ANSI X12 format, and the data on each document has to agree with the one before it. For a supplier, that makes the choice of EDI provider a practical one: who will build the connection, keep it accurate, and stay on top of Home Depot's specifications as they change.
With 35+ years of EDI experience and 1,000+ trading partner connections, Infocon Systems delivers Home Depot EDI as a fully managed service. Your team works with orders and shipments; Infocon Systems handles the EDI.
How Home Depot's EDI Program Works
Home Depot does not run a single, one-size-fits-all EDI program. The documents you exchange and the timing rules you follow depend on how your product reaches the customer. Most suppliers fall into one or more of these fulfillment channels:
Rapid Deployment Center (RDC)
Product flows through Home Depot's cross-dock network to stores. ASN timing and accuracy are measured at receipt.
Direct Fulfillment Center (DFC)
Inventory positioned for homedepot.com orders. Purchase orders, ship notices, and invoices follow the same core X12 cycle.
Direct to Store (DTS)
Shipments go straight from the supplier to individual stores, with fill rate and on-time performance tracked per order.
Drop Ship / Online
Supplier ships directly to the customer. This program typically runs through Rithum (formerly CommerceHub) and adds its own acknowledgment and shipment documents.
Suppliers register and manage their Home Depot relationship through the Home Depot Supplier Hub, where the current implementation guides, routing guide, and compliance tools live. Because requirements differ by channel and are updated over time, Infocon Systems confirms each supplier's exact document set against Home Depot's current specifications at the start of every onboarding.
Home Depot EDI Transactions
These are the documents Home Depot suppliers most often exchange. Your program may use a subset, or add others such as the 820 Remittance Advice, 846 Inventory Advice, or 852 Product Activity Data.
Purchase Order
Home Depot's order to the supplier: items, quantities, pricing, ship-to locations, and requested dates. Every downstream document references it.
Purchase Order Acknowledgment
The supplier's response confirming the order, including any changes to quantities or ship dates, so Home Depot can plan around what will actually ship.
Purchase Order Change
Home Depot's revisions to an open order. Applied promptly, it keeps the shipment and invoice aligned with the latest version of the PO.
Advance Ship Notice
Sent when the shipment leaves, detailing contents, carton and pallet structure, and carrier information. It must match the GS1-128 carton labels and the physical shipment.
Invoice
The electronic invoice for shipped goods. Quantities and pricing need to agree with the purchase order and the ASN for payment to process cleanly.
Functional Acknowledgment
Confirms that each document was received and passed syntax validation. Exchanged in both directions for every transaction.
Infocon Systems supports all of these documents for Home Depot, along with every other ANSI X12 and EDIFACT transaction your other trading partners require.
What Home Depot Measures
Home Depot tracks supplier performance through scorecards in its Supplier Performance Management tools, organized by fulfillment channel. Several of the measures depend directly on EDI data being accurate and on time. Infocon Systems builds validation for each of them into the connection.
ASN Timeliness
Home Depot expects the 856 ahead of the shipment's arrival at its facility. Infocon Systems monitors every outbound ASN and its 997 so a delayed or rejected ship notice is caught and corrected the same day.
GS1-128 Labels That Match the ASN
Each carton label carries an SSCC-18 that also appears in the 856. Infocon Systems generates labels and ship notices from the same shipment data, so the two always agree.
Invoice Accuracy
Every 810 is validated against the originating 850, any 860 changes, and the 856 before it is transmitted, keeping pricing, quantities, and PO references consistent.
Fill Rate and On-Time Performance
Orders reach your team the moment Home Depot sends them, and acknowledgments and changes are applied right away, giving your warehouse the full window to ship complete and on schedule.
Specification Changes
When Home Depot updates an implementation guide, Infocon Systems updates the maps and retests. Suppliers do not need to track specification revisions themselves.
Why Home Depot Suppliers Choose Infocon Systems
Recognized by The Home Depot
The Home Depot lists Infocon Systems as a preferred EDI provider. For a new supplier, that removes the guesswork from provider selection: the connection, the document maps, and the testing path are already established.
Fully Managed, Not Self-Service
Infocon Systems does not hand over software and a manual. A dedicated team of EDI experts builds the connection, maps every document, runs testing with Home Depot, and monitors production traffic every day. If a transaction is rejected, Infocon Systems resolves it and tells you what happened.
One Provider for Every Trading Partner
Few suppliers sell to Home Depot alone. Infocon Systems is also a preferred EDI provider for ACE Hardware, Do It Best, True Value, and Tractor Supply, as well as retailers such as Target, Kroger, and Wayfair. Adding the next trading partner is a new map on a connection you already have, not a new project.
Home Depot EDI Integrated With Any ERP Platform
Infocon Systems integrates Home Depot EDI with any ERP platform, so purchase orders arrive as sales orders and ship notices and invoices are generated from the records your team already maintains.
Infocon Systems uses REST APIs as the primary integration method, with SOAP available where it is the better fit. The integration is built and maintained by Infocon Systems, not your IT team.
ERP integration is optional. Home Depot EDI works without it: suppliers who are not ready to integrate can receive orders and send acknowledgments, ship notices, and invoices through the Infocon Systems web portal, then add integration later without changing providers.