To Our Valued Suppliers

AAFES has made a strong commitment to business re-engineering through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) i.e. making every major manual process an electronic one. The intent is to more tightly integrate both AAFES and its vendor partner’s Supply Chain by reducing overall cost and accelerating the movement of key business information to the people that need it.

However, we need your assistance with the return transmission of the Advanced Ship Notice (856).  If we send you an each in the Purchase Order, we are requesting that you send us back eaches in your 856.  If we send you cases, please return cases in the 856.  Whatever size procurement that goes out in the Purchase Order, we need returned.  Do not send back cases if we send you eaches and vice versa. 

If you would prefer to send us cases, please advise the EDI department, prior to sending so we can enter your case UPC’s in our system to avoid errors.   

We strongly enlist your support in this endeavor. Improved Supply Chain management is a win-win for AAFES, its suppliers and most importantly our customers who will reap the benefits of improved in-stocks and lower product costs.

Thank you