Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has been used in businesses for about 30 years to reduce the costs of document processing and, in general, to achieve strategic business advantages made possible by shorter business process cycle times. The variety of different industry-specific and national EDI standards makes it difficult for businesses to decide which standard to use. Additionally, many comp...

Many of our discussions with practitioners and theorists brought out the problem of lagging diffusion of Interorganisational Systems (IOS). In spite of the Internet revolution and growing numbers of EDI users, acceptance of IOS has been rather slow, measured by the technology’s potentials. Where IOS systems have been implemented, they often have to struggle against the handicap of underutilizat...

a College of Business & Economics, Lehigh University b College of Business, College of William and Mary c Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland ABSTRACT Prior literature has documented the performance benefits from the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) and the Internet. Little research, however, has provided a direct comparison between the performance of the two syst...

This paper presents the development of a simulation model for the assessment of the expected benefits from the implementation of EDI. The model simulates trading between a number of companies at three sequential stages of production. The simulation keeps track of inventory levels in order to assess the efficiency gains on inventory management introduced by EDI. This model has been applied to th...

As an element of Electronic Commerce (particularly supply chain management), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has the potential to sustain competitive advantage for individual companies, yet the adoption of EDI has been considerably slower than anticipated. One of the major reasons for this slow uptake is the difficulty in justifying the high investment cost of EDI. Very little research has be...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) provides a method for organisations to send and receive standardised business communications quickly, flexibly, cheaply and in a secure manner. It is EDI's document translation standards which distinguish it from other, similar technologies such as e-mail or tape-based file transfer and which enable EDI to offer a standardised internal integration option for ut...

The electronic commerce assurance market has been estimated to be potentially worth $11 billion. To date, the focus of assurance services has largely been on web commerce (and, therefore, business-to-consumer or B2C) related services, leaving the business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce market relatively untapped. Yet, with electronic data interchange (EDI) being mandated by large compani...

In this paper, we will present some experiences in the Netherlands with EDI for statistical datacollection and dissemination. We will consider the changes to be made for large scale EDI datacollection. We will argue that EDI demands a dramatic redesign of the way we collect and process statistical information, but the rewards in terms of response burden, quality and efficiency might be well wor...

This Applicability Statement (AS) describes how to exchange structured business data securely using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for XML, Binary, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI ANSI X12 or UN/EDIFACT), or other data used for business-to-business data interchange for which MIME packaging can be accomplished using standard MIME content types. Authentication and data confidentiality are obta...

Still most of the current information systems are intra-organizational. Since products, services and production processes have become more information intensive, there is an increased need to transfer these information between organizations. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards have been proposed to exchange these information between two independently operating information systems. All t...