Emery Jensen Integration FAQs: hardware & home improvement EDI, backed by Ace Hardware

The InfiPlex Emery Jensen integration connects your approved Emery Jensen Distribution vendor relationship to the InfiPlex Inventory & Order Management System over EDI. Purchase orders pull in automatically, shipments ship from your warehouse or 3PL, and the ASN and invoice documents Emery Jensen requires post back — while your inventory stays synced with every other channel you supply.

No — Emery Jensen Distribution has been a subsidiary of Ace Hardware Corporation since 2014, and is unrelated to True Value's ownership or 2024 restructuring. Emery Jensen is an independently operating distribution business under the Ace Hardware corporate family.

Yes — Emery Jensen works through approved wholesale vendor relationships established directly with its merchandising team, not a self-serve marketplace signup. InfiPlex connects that EDI relationship once you're approved and Emery Jensen has issued your onboarding requirements.

Our USA-based team configures the EDI connection with you during onboarding, mapping the specific documents (850 purchase orders, 856 ASNs, 810 invoices, and others) Emery Jensen requires, and coordinating any certification testing requested.

Your OMS site is provisioned within 1–2 business days, and EDI trading-partner setups generally take longer than a standard marketplace connection because retailer-side testing is involved. Our team scopes the specific timeline once we see your Emery Jensen onboarding packet.

InfiPlex pulls EDI 850 purchase orders from Emery Jensen approximately every 15 minutes, landing in the same queue as your other retailer and marketplace orders, ready to route to a warehouse or 3PL.

Yes — once an order ships, InfiPlex generates and transmits the EDI 856 Advance Ship Notice and 810 invoice back to Emery Jensen automatically, keeping your vendor account compliant without manual EDI work.

Yes — the OMS routes Emery Jensen orders to a connected 3PL or WMS via the 3PL Connector, with the required EDI documents generated automatically once the 3PL ships.

That's the core of the product: Emery Jensen joins the same order queue as Build.com, HD Supply, and 130+ other integrations, so your team works from one screen instead of a separate vendor portal per retailer.

InfiPlex automates exactly the mechanics most vendor compliance programs scrutinize — on-time document transmission, accurate ASNs matching what actually shipped, and inventory that reflects real availability — which is where manual EDI processes most often break down under volume.

InfiPlex maintains one master inventory pool, and every sale on any channel — Emery Jensen, another retailer, or your own webstore — updates available quantities everywhere in real time, which is what prevents committing stock to an Emery Jensen PO you can't actually ship.

Yes — per-channel buffers hold back a safety quantity for Emery Jensen commitments, configured independently from your other channels.

Use the built-in Inventory Tool for direct edits, the Inventory Upload tool for spreadsheet-based changes, scheduled FTP feeds, or automated pulls from supplier systems. One update propagates to Emery Jensen and every other connected channel.

Yes — the OMS tracks stock across multiple warehouses and 3PLs and routes orders to the right source, useful for hardware and building-materials suppliers managing bulky or palletized goods.

Yes — if your product line is part of an exclusive or category-specific distribution arrangement with Emery Jensen, order and inventory sync work the same way; program-specific terms are set directly with Emery Jensen's merchandising team.

Emery Jensen Distribution has been a subsidiary of Ace Hardware Corporation since Ace acquired it in 2014, operating as Ace's wholesale distribution arm serving independent hardware retailers, lumberyards, and home centers outside Ace's own cooperative membership.

Yes, by recent signs — in 2025, Weber-Stephen Products designated Emery Jensen (alongside Ace Hardware) as an exclusive distribution partner for its grill lineup starting with the 2026 season, and Emery Jensen continues actively hiring and expanding its territory manager network.

Both operate in the same independent hardware-distribution space, and True Value went through a 2024 Chapter 11 bankruptcy and acquisition by Do it Best — but Emery Jensen is a separate company under Ace Hardware and was not part of that restructuring.

Day-to-day vendor operations — EDI requirements, purchase ordering, and compliance programs — continue through Emery Jensen's own standard vendor processes; our team updates your EDI configuration whenever Emery Jensen issues new requirements.

Yes — InfiPlex's 130+ integrations include other retail EDI trading partners and marketplaces in adjacent categories; our team can help you evaluate which additional channels make sense once your Emery Jensen relationship is running smoothly.

Emery Jensen connects on every InfiPlex plan as a standard EDI trading-partner connection. Basic Starter is $49.99/month with up to 2,000 SKUs at $0.50 per order; Growth Starter is $499.99/month with 10,000 SKUs and 1,000 orders included ($0.10 per additional order); Growth Pro is $999.99/month with 100,000 SKUs and 10,000 orders included ($0.05 per additional order). Full details are on the Pricing page.

EDI connections may carry retailer-required VAN costs depending on your specific setup, though InfiPlex can often significantly reduce or eliminate those costs compared to a standalone EDI provider.

Vendors managing several EDI trading partners — Emery Jensen, Build.com, HD Supply, and others — often fit well on Growth Starter or Growth Pro, both of which include ERP connections like NetSuite on Growth Pro.

Growth packages carry a 3-month minimum commitment and Partner packages a 12-month term; Basic Starter is month-to-month. Schedule a demo and we'll scope the right plan against your Emery Jensen relationship and overall EDI trading-partner mix.

Yes — order and inventory sync work the same regardless of whether products are part of an exclusive distribution arrangement; program-specific terms remain between you and Emery Jensen.

Some suppliers work with both Emery Jensen's independent-retailer distribution and Ace's own cooperative channel; each typically runs its own vendor relationship, which InfiPlex can connect independently while sharing the same inventory pool.