A wide variety of mechanical parts circulate in the field of manufacturing. It is often the case that a set of codes for products is necessary for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) that supports distributions of them. Generally such product codes are maintained by a certain organization consists of related companies, business communities, so forth. While Linked Open Data is getting popularity i...

In December 1992, the EEC will complete the implementation of its Single Unified Trading Market, exerting a significant influence on organisations based in or trading with the EEC in terms of both increased competition and greater opportunities. To take advantage of these opportunities (and protect their interests) companies trading with the European bloc must be able to deal quickly and accura...

Over the past several decades, corporations have invested trillions of dollars in implementing EDI systems with their major trading partners using traditional EDI methods such as ANSI ASC X12 and UN/EDIFACT. While this investment has yielded significant improvements in efficiency and savings, the savings have not been more than 20% of the potential savings, because traditional EDI has been too ...

Data heterogeneity in the public sector is a serious problem and remains to be a key issue as different naming conventions are used to represent similar data labels. The e-government effort in many countries has provided a platform for government entities and their business partners to exchange data through Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and standards such as RosettaNet (B2B data ...

New technologies have fostered a shift from a transaction-based economy through an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) informational-exchange economy to relationship-based Electronic Commerce (EC) one (Keen 1999.) We have moved from “first order” transactional value exchanges through “secondorder” informational value exchanges to “third-order” relational value exchanges (Widmeyer 2004.) Three imp...

Research in Information Systems has switched its focus from data to communication. The communication between different autonomous ICS’s (Information and Communication System) requires a certain amount of intelligence of each system. The system should be able to know which queries it can/may handle and also be able to negotiate about the information that it will give. In short these systems evol...

Business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce based on the principles of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems has been conducted for a long time. In recent years, we observe a switch to a rather business process-based thinking for implementing interorganizational systems. UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM) which I co-authored is considered as one of the mature graphical modeling appro...

The purpose of this paper is to describe business-to-business (B2B) communication and the characteristics of an open standard for electronic communication within the Australian timber and wood products industry. Current issues, future goals and strategies for using business-to-business communication will be considered. From the perspective of the Timber industry sector, this study is important ...