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 ...

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 ...

To continue doing business with Wal-Mart, manufacturer Murray, Inc., needed to upgrade its e-commerce infrastructure. The pressure was welcome, says Tim Bolton, electronic data interchange manager at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around the time that the group that approves such things signed off on XML 1.0 in February of 1998, the trade press began to write the obituary for electronic data interchange (EDI), which it ...

When a company as big as Wal-Mart talks, everybody listens. When the retailer announced in September that it would do electronic data interchange (EDI) with suppliers over the Web instead of using ...

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 ...