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Tender freight with Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health is one of the largest US pharmaceutical and medical products distributors. Stacksync handles Cardinal Health EDI onboarding end to end — enrolment, certification, and transaction mapping into your ERP, WMS, or database, with no-code setup.

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X12 · inbound
Primary txn
204
Motor Carrier Load Tender
Go-live median
3d
No VAN required

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EDI documents commonly traded with Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health document requirements are confirmed during onboarding. These are the transaction sets a distributor most commonly trades — Stacksync supports all of them, mapped directly into your ERP, WMS, or database.

Document flow

How EDI documents flow with Cardinal Health

Where each document sits in its trading cycle, based on the transaction sets a distributor typically trades. Exact Cardinal Health requirements are confirmed during onboarding.

Order-to-cash

Complete cycle
  1. 850 Purchase Order
  2. 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment
  3. 856 Ship Notice / Manifest (ASN)
  4. 810 Invoice

Catalog & inventory

Partial cycle
  1. 832 Price / Sales Catalog not typical for a distributor
  2. 846 Inventory Inquiry / Advice
  3. 852 Product Activity Data not typical for a distributor

How it works

Three steps to live Cardinal Health EDI.

Stacksync handles the complexity of Cardinal Health EDI so your team doesn't have to. Connect your ERP, WMS, or database through a simple API, we translate, validate, and deliver every transaction automatically.

  1. 01

    Connect your systems

    Plug Stacksync into your ERP, WMS, or database with a no-code connector. We handle authentication, schema discovery, and field mapping.

  2. 02

    Map to Cardinal Health guidelines

    We ship pre-built mappings for every Cardinal Health document type. Override any field, add custom validation, or extend with custom code.

  3. 03

    Send & receive in real time

    Stacksync translates, validates, and delivers every transaction over AS2, SFTP, or API. Watch every document flow live in the dashboard.

Why Stacksync

Built for EDI suppliers, not enterprise legacy.

From pre-built Cardinal Health mappings to real-time compliance checks, Stacksync removes the friction from EDI, so you can focus on growing your business.

  • Pre-built mappings

    Stacksync ships native mappings for every Cardinal Health document type. No more 6-week field-mapping projects.

  • Real-time monitoring

    Every transaction shows up in the dashboard the second it lands, with retry, revert, and replay built in.

  • No vendor lock-in

    Your data lives in your ERP/WMS/database. Stacksync is the translation layer, not the system of record.

  • Days, not months

    Most Cardinal Health suppliers go live in under a week. We migrate from SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce, Cleo and IBM Sterling.

LEGACY EDI MIGRATION FUND

Still with a legacy EDI vendor? We cover the buyout.

Stacksync buys back your current contract with SPS Commerce, Cleo, TrueCommerce, or OpenText. No migration cost, no overlap billing.

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SECURITY

Security teams trust Stacksync

As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

Trading partners

5,000+ trading partners.
And every channel covered.

We connect to every major retailer, distributor, and 3PL on the EDI network. Type to search the directory, or browse the full catalogue.

E2open, LLC John Deere Costco Ryder The Home Depot Kleinschmidt Mercury Gate Walmart Dillard's Department Stores, Inc. Nordstrom JCPenney CVS Amazon Target Saks Fifth Avenue & Saks OFF 5th NEXCOM (Navy Exchange Service Command) Sprouts Farmers Market Ulta Beauty Macy's Master Electronics Aldi
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FAQ

Cardinal Health EDI questions

What is Cardinal Health EDI?

Cardinal Health is one of the largest US pharmaceutical and medical products distributors, and trades EDI documents typical for a distributor (such as X12 850, X12 855, X12 856, X12 810, X12 846, X12 820). Trading partners use EDI to exchange purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, and acknowledgements with Cardinal Health programmatically, Stacksync handles the entire EDI exchange, validation, and translation into your ERP, WMS, or database.

Which EDI standards does Cardinal Health use?

Cardinal Health uses EDI. Stacksync supports both X12 (the dominant North American standard) and EDIFACT (the dominant European and global shipping standard) for every connected trading partner. Channel-specific implementation guidelines from Cardinal Health are pre-built into the Stacksync connector and validated on every outbound transaction.

Which transaction codes does Cardinal Health support?

Cardinal Health document types are being onboarded. Contact the Stacksync team to confirm which transaction codes you need and Stacksync will prioritize them in the next sprint.

How long does Cardinal Health EDI integration take with Stacksync?

Most Cardinal Health EDI integrations go live in 3 to 10 business days. The Stacksync team handles partner enrolment, channel certification, transaction-set mapping per Cardinal Health's implementation guide, and end-to-end testing. Complex multi-channel deployments or custom transaction sets take 2 to 4 weeks. Cutover is zero-downtime and parallel-run validated.

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