Americold Realty Trust

aid: americold-realty-trust
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/americold-realty-trust/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Americold Realty Trust
type: Index
image: https://www.americold.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Cold Storage
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Warehousing
- Real Estate
- Temperature-Controlled
- Cold Chain
- EDI
- 3PL
description: Americold Realty Trust is a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, real estate, and value-added services,
  owning and operating one of the largest networks of cold storage warehouses in the world. The company serves food producers,
  retailers, and distributors with integrated logistics solutions, offering technology platforms such as i-3PL for customer-facing
  inventory and order visibility and EDI for system-to-system supply chain integration. While Americold provides customer-facing
  technology and integration capabilities, it does not currently publish a public developer-facing API portal with open OpenAPI
  documentation; integrations are established project-by-project through the Americold service desk and EDI onboarding process.
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-05-05'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: americold-i-3pl
  name: Americold i-3PL Platform
  humanURL: https://www.americold.com/technology-automation/i-3pl/
  baseURL: https://www.i-3pl.com/
  description: i-3PL is Americold's customer-facing digital supply chain platform offering real-time inventory tracking, order
    management, dock appointment scheduling, customizable alerts, and 40+ reporting tools across the Americold network. The
    platform supports integration with customer ERP systems for seamless data exchange but does not publish open public API
    documentation; programmatic integration is coordinated with the Americold Service Desk.
  tags:
  - Logistics
  - Supply Chain
  - Cold Storage
  - 3PL
  - Inventory
  - Reporting
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://www.i-3pl.com/login
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.americold.com/technology-automation/i-3pl/
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.americold.com/contact-us/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/americold-i-3pl-inventory-snapshot-schema.json
    title: i-3PL Inventory Snapshot Schema
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/americold-i-3pl-inventory-snapshot-structure.json
    title: i-3PL Inventory Snapshot Structure
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/americold-i-3pl-inventory-snapshot-example.json
    title: i-3PL Inventory Snapshot Example
- aid: americold-edi
  name: Americold EDI
  humanURL: https://www.americold.com/technology-automation/edi-electronic-data-interchange/
  baseURL: https://www.americold.com/technology-automation/edi-electronic-data-interchange/
  description: Americold provides Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) capabilities for automated data exchange between Americold
    and depositor (customer) systems, supporting orders, inventory, shipments, and other supply chain transactions. The integration
    uses the X12 warehousing 900-series transaction sets common across third-party logistics providers (940 Warehouse Shipping
    Order, 943 Stock Transfer Shipment Advice, 944 Stock Transfer Receipt Advice, 945 Warehouse Shipping Advice, 947 Inventory
    Adjustment Advice, plus 856 ASN and 846 Inventory Inquiry).
  tags:
  - EDI
  - Integration
  - Supply Chain
  - X12
  - 3PL
  - AS2
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.americold.com/technology-automation/edi-electronic-data-interchange/
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.americold.com/contact-us/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-order-schema.json
    title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Order (940) Schema
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-advice-schema.json
    title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Advice (945) Schema
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-order-structure.json
    title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Order (940) Structure
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-advice-structure.json
    title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Advice (945) Structure
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-order-example.json
    title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Order (940) Example
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-advice-example.json
    title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Advice (945) Example
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/americold-realty
- type: Website
  url: https://www.americold.com
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.i-3pl.com/login
- type: TechnologyAutomation
  url: https://www.americold.com/technology-automation/
- type: CustomerResources
  url: https://www.americold.com/customer-resources/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.americold.com/contact-us/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.americold.com/careers/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://ir.americold.com
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.americold.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.americold.com/terms-of-use/
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Global Cold Storage Network
    description: Americold owns and operates one of the largest networks of temperature-controlled warehouses worldwide, with
      facilities across North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South America serving food producers, processors,
      distributors, and retailers.
  - name: i-3PL Customer Platform
    description: Customer-facing digital platform delivering real-time inventory tracking, order management, dock appointment
      scheduling, customizable alerts, and over 40 reporting tools across the Americold network from phone, tablet, or desktop.
  - name: EDI Supply Chain Integration
    description: Standards-based X12 EDI exchange of warehousing transactions (940/943/944/945/947) and shipping/inventory
      transactions (856, 846) between Americold's WMS/TMS/LMS/WES and depositor ERP systems for real-time supply chain visibility.
  - name: Lot-Level Traceability
    description: Item-lot granularity for receipts, holds, releases, and shipments enables food-safety traceability, recall
      readiness, and FSMA / HACCP compliance across the cold chain.
  - name: Multi-Temperature Zones
    description: Storage and handling across deep-frozen, frozen, refrigerated, cooler, and ambient temperature zones with
      documented temperature requirements and load-temperature recording on outbound shipments.
  - name: Value-Added Services
    description: Blast freezing, pick and pack, labeling and relabeling, repacking, kitting, staging, cross-dock, sloughing/tempering,
      plus light assembly and food processing services provided alongside storage.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Cold Chain Outbound Fulfillment
    description: A depositor sends a 940 Warehouse Shipping Order to an Americold facility; Americold picks, stages, and ships
      product; a 945 Warehouse Shipping Advice returns to the depositor for ERP reconciliation.
  - name: Inventory Visibility for Food Manufacturers
    description: Frozen and refrigerated food manufacturers monitor on-hand, available, committed, and held inventory across
      Americold facilities using i-3PL snapshots, dashboards, and reports.
  - name: Dock Appointment Scheduling
    description: Carriers and depositor logistics teams book, modify, and cancel dock appointments at Americold facilities
      through i-3PL to optimize throughput and reduce dwell time.
  - name: Lot Traceability and Recall
    description: Quality assurance and food safety teams trace a lot from receipt through every shipment to support recalls
      and regulatory holds.
  - name: Stock Transfer Between Facilities
    description: Move inventory between Americold facilities using 943/944 transfer transactions to balance network inventory
      and meet regional demand.
  - name: ERP-to-WMS Integration
    description: Connect SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, and other ERP systems to Americold's WMS through EDI and
      managed integration partners.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: SPS Commerce
    description: SPS Commerce provides pre-built EDI connections used by depositors and 3PL trading partners to exchange warehousing
      transaction sets with Americold over a managed network.
  - name: Stedi
    description: Stedi's API-first EDI platform is used by modern engineering teams to translate, validate, and exchange X12
      warehouse transactions with Americold programmatically.
  - name: Cleo Integration Cloud
    description: Cleo provides AS2, SFTP, and API integration tooling commonly used to connect depositor ERP systems to 3PL
      warehouse partners like Americold.
  - name: SAP and Oracle ERP
    description: Americold integrates with leading enterprise ERP systems via EDI for orders, inventory, and shipping reconciliation
      across the depositor's order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes.
  - name: Customer ERP Systems
    description: Americold can integrate its supply chain management systems (WMS, LMS, TMS, WES) with a customer's ERP system
      for seamless information flow.
- type: JSONLD
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/americold-realty-trust/refs/heads/main/json-ld/americold-realty-trust-context.jsonld
  title: Americold Realty Trust JSON-LD Context
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/americold-realty-trust/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/americold-realty-trust-vocabulary.yaml
  title: Americold Realty Trust Vocabulary
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://americold.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com