In the quest to achieve a paperless society, electronic data interchange (EDI) has long been a leading technology. Ralph W. Notto, a leading chronicler of electronic commerce (see Challenge and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. Let’s start with a quick primer on EDI and VANs. EDI has existed since the early ...

For Art Anderson, electronic data interchange has been a burden from day one. Ten years ago, his company, Americana Inc., spent $5,000 on software and consulting fees to implement EDI and send ...

The article explores how the electronic document interchange (EDI) system operates in online retail and marketplaces. The main focus is on how such solutions help automate business processes, reduce ...

Major merchants have an exacting set of standards for the ordering, packaging, invoicing, and shipping of products to their store locations. To ensure that these protocols are met by all parties in ...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) provides trading partners with automatic, standardised business document exchange. To process documents, the data needs to be converted to and from different EDI ...

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Don’t believe reports you might hear about the death of electronic data interchange. Not only is EDI alive more than 20 years after its birth, it’s also thriving at companies that use it to exchange ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, based here, plans to shortly mandate that all of its suppliers become equipped to exchange Web-based EDI (electronic data interchange) documents with the retailer ...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a technology whose time has clearly arrived - an advent marked most strikingly in government circles by President Clinton's 1993 order that all federal procurement ...