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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 ...

The Internet, which has entered into almost every corner of the business world, is starting to be employed as a vehicle for electronically transmitting purchase orders and invoices between retailers ...

They also manage the physical transport of data for one or more EDI documents and watch for errors or exceptions. VANs aren’t necessary to conduct EDI transactions, but many companies insist that ...

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 ...

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 ...