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: Example
        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: Example
        url: examples/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-order-example.json
        title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Order (940) Example
      - type: Example
        url: examples/americold-edi-warehouse-shipping-advice-example.json
        title: EDI Warehouse Shipping Advice (945) Example
common:
  - 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: JSON-LD
    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
maintainers:
  - FN: API Evangelist
    url: https://apievangelist.com