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 office supply industry aims to provide its clients — made up of various-sized companies, public entities and non-business organizations — with all the equipment they need to complete their work.

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 ...

EDI has been around since the 1960s, when the transportation industry began pursuing computer-based techniques for exchanging routine business transactions, such as purchase orders, invoices, shipping ...

Automation has become a driving force in modern business, transforming areas such as manufacturing, customer service, and accounting. In accounting, particularly, financial electronic data interchange ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Computers are not infallible, but most errors and inefficiencies in business IT systems are introduced when ...