Search Distributors, Build Inventory In Seconds Inside AIM
Check distributor stock, compare pricing, or build inventory records all in one system. Supplier Connections puts all of that inside one screen so your staff can search, create inventory, and place orders without switching between systems.
What Supplier Connections Does
Supplier Connections connects AIM directly to RSR Group, Sports South, Lipsey’s, Davidson’s, and other leading distributors. Instead of searching each site individually, your team searches once by UPC and gets real-time pricing, availability, and complete product data. A few clicks then adds new products directly into your inventory.
Search Once, See Everything
Enter a UPC and AIM returns product details, cost, retail pricing, and live stock levels from every connected distributor, all in one view.
Create Inventory in One Click
Click ‘Create Inventory’ and AIM builds a complete record, manufacturer, model, caliber, categories, and pricing, all populated automatically from distributor data. No manual keying, no copy-paste errors.
Order, Receive, and Book All in One Step
Compare distributors, select the best price, and generate a purchase order ready to email, all from the same screen. When the item arrives, scan the serial number and AIM handles receiving and the A&D book entry in one pass.
Set Your Margins Once
Configure price relations by distributor and every item you add automatically inherits your markup rules. Consistent pricing across your entire inventory without manual calculations.
Handle Special Orders at the Counter
Customer wants something you don’t have in stock? Search the UPC, find a distributor with availability, and place the order while they’re still standing in front of you.
Why It Matters
Faster Onboarding, Not Just Faster Restocking New implementations used to mean weeks of manual data entry to build a database from scratch. With Supplier Connections, shops build their catalog as they receive, adding products one at a time, each in under a minute.
A Clean Database, Not a Bloated One The old approach was downloading entire distributor catalogs, thousands of products you’d never sell, cluttering your system and slowing down searches. Supplier Connections adds items only when you need them.
Website-Ready Product Data Included Some distributors provide images and web blurbs alongside their catalog data. When you create inventory from those sources, that content is ready to push to your website, no separate image sourcing or copywriting needed.
Pricing
$55 per month, added directly to your existing AIM subscription. No setup fees. No per-transaction charges. Enabled at the account level — your team can start using it immediately.