Companies are increasingly embedded in B2B environments, where they have to collaborate in order to achieve their goals. Such collaborations lead to inter-organizational business processes that may be commonly supported through the exchange of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages (e.g., electronic purchase orders, invoices etc.). Despite the appearance of XML, traditional approaches to ED...

The rapid change in technology and other skills added to customers requiring highly specific and customized products, has lead to the need for far greater cooperation within and between firms. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one of the tools that can help and change the way in which many companies communicate between each other. In this paper, the introduction and adoption of EDI in Greek ...

The increasing competitive pressures from both global and domestic markets are forcing nations to adopt new trade practices and standards. Nations need to adjust to new methods of trade information exchange, open up their telecommunications systems and learn to take full advantage of harmonized procedures, standards, and practices for trade documentation. The role of electronic commerce and ele...

Innovations in information technology (IT) have affected all types of business transactions. In order to have an efficient physical supply chain, it is essential to establish equally efficient informational and financial supply chains. In this paper, we study the role of IT in establishing a comprehensive supply chain network. INTRODUCTION Organizations are forced to think in supply chain terms...

Internet EDI plays an important role in electronic business applications. One of its major functions is the translation and extraction of electronic documents. This paper presents a component-based approach to the development and application of the Internet EDI software for exchange and management of electronic documents. The software has been used in the Hong Kong SAR Government’s Innovation a...

Electronic commerce (ecommerce) is the new buzzword for doing business on the Internet. A main problem for business-to business e-commerce lies in the need for the information systems of the involved organizations to exchange meaningful information . For letting the information systems of business partners accomplish electronic business communication , semantic interoperabilit y is necessary to...

This article investigates the impact of traceability quality information system on humanitarian logistics performance. There are four variables studied, namely electronic data interchange (EDI) adoption, blockchain (BC) radio frequency identification (RFID) logistics, and research was conducted to assess disaster services in implementation service principles logistics. The conceptual model is m...

As the usage of computers expands in commercial activities, it is a necessary issue to reduce the usage of papers and documents. That is why I focus in my research to find the way turning paper documents into electronic documents in freight transport. I examine road, rail and combined transport. The first step is to map the main activities and the paper documents used for managing the processes...

This document provides an applicability statement (RFC 2026, Section 3.2) that describes how to exchange structured business data securely using the HTTP transfer protocol, instead of SMTP; the applicability statement for SMTP is found in RFC 3335. Structured business data may be XML; Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in either the American National Standards Committee (ANSI) X12 format or the ...