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 ...

Instead of mapping EDI in-house or paying an enterprise software vendor to do it, carriers using a VAN can send a data file via e-mail or file transfer protocol (FTP) upload. The VAN can reformat the ...

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 ...

This article appears in the June/July 2012 issue of iTECH, published in the June 11 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. One of the core business-to-business ...

Small businesses that supply products to large retailers often live in two worlds. In order to do business with big companies they must send and receive information in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI ...

There have been huge advances in transportation technology in the last half-century — including self-landing rockets on barges and self-driving cars — yet the predominant technology used to connect us ...

EDI compliance, or Electronic Data Interchange compliance, refers to the adherence to specific standards and requirements for the electronic exchange of business documents between trading partners.

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 ...

Coty uses EDI to process orders electronically with Wal-Mart. What’s new in Coty’s setup is the transport mechanism: Coty is swapping EDI messages with Wal-Mart over the Internet, rather than using a ...