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 ...

I’VE RETURNED from a recent set of roundtable discussions in which several retail clients heatedly discussed the migration of existing EDI (electronic data interchange) systems to XML-based ...

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 ...

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EDI (electronic data interchange) is one of the core technologies—along with barcode labeling and scanning—that is used to enable supply chains. EDI and barcoding date back to the 1960s and 1970s, and ...

While many retailers tend to be reluctant to embrace new technology, Wal-Mart Stores and Supervalu are not among them. Those two companies remain among the most forward-thinking users of technology in ...

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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 ...