Increasingly, large retail companies are finding that the traditional vision of Electronic Data Interchange using a Value Added Network with expensive message translation software and private wide area networks, is unable to deliver its promise of paperless trading with their suppliers. While many have achieved a high level of EDI compliance from large suppliers, many unsophisticated, usually s...

There is little doubt that advanced information and communication technologies (IT) arc changing the way businesses operate and conduct commerce. As the advent of a more secure Internet and new transmission standards makes it easier and cheaper for businesses to conduct inter-organizational commerce, it is incumbent upon SME managers to assess whether implementing new technologies such as Elect...

In the automotive industry, some of the most complex partnerships between car manufacturers and suppliers can be observed. Electronic data interchange (EDI) can provide an integrated information infrastructure that contributes to the formation of collaborative interorganizational arrangements. Adopting a multiple case research methodology, this research explores the influences of EDI on the coo...

Business process modelling (BPM) is an emerging field of simulation application. Simulation of business processes is increasingly being recognised as an extremely useful tool for assessing the feasibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of process re-engineering decisions. However, almost all of the reported experience is confined to re-engineering initiatives within a single organisation. The p...

The fundamental challenge of e-commerce is enabling companies to do business with one another across a network, despite different business processes and computer systems. Traditionally, these problems were overcome through custom point-to-point integration or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) networks. These expensive, time-consuming approaches make economic sense only when companies do a lot o...

This research examines the ways electronic data interchange (EDI) is used to coordinate and control interorganizational activities and resource transactions between car manufacturers and suppliers. The objective is to deveIop a research framework with a solid theoretical base that will be capable of capturing the richness of changing interorganizational relationships. To this end, the paper dis...

The term electronic commerce is generally applied to any form of business transaction by means of telecommunication networks. This involves the use of information technology (such as electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail, transfer of money, etc) to link the functions provided by participants in this kind of commerce, rather than physical exchanges or direct physical contact. It als...

nowadays all organizations are somehow involved with information technology revolutions and the applicable aspects of information technology are evident in any field of supply chain, from the relationship with suppliers and producers to the relationship with the customers. in other words, the application of information technology is influential in the improvement of the supply chain. in this st...

Electronic payments for services rendered or products purchased are extremely common in much of the developed world. For instance, many large companies in USA regularly conduct seventy to eighty percent of their interactions with suppliers and banks electronically. The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards and products used to achieve this are fairly mature. Typically such transactions oc...

For many large retail companies with many suppliers, the utopian vision of total paperless trading offered by traditional Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), with its attendant efficiencies, has not been realized. Many small, but operationally important suppliers, lack enthusiasm for traditional EDI because it is expensive, complicated and they stand to gain little from it. This non-compliance p...