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 pr...

As more and more smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt information technology (IT) in their daily business operations and even in their strategic planning, the positive impacts of IT are no longer a privilege of large organizations. However, there has been little research conducted and published on the adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI) in SMEs. Most previous studies on EDI ...

The successful adoption of inter-organizational systems (IOS) requires the cooperation of participating firms with complex business and economic relationships. This study examines the impact of inter-organizational relationships on the adoption and diffusion of a category of IOS called Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) that supports the electronic transmission of business documents between two ...

1. Introduction In recent years, supply chain technologies and processes (vendor managed inventory (VMI), continuous replenishment (CR), electronic data interchange (EDI), etc.) have become strategic imperatives for firms in increasingly competitive industries (Williams and Frolick 2001). Extensive research has examined the performance outcomes from these supply chain initiatives. For example, ...

Many EDI researchers and practitioners have recognized the importance of high penetration levels for the success of EDI. Unfortunately, such penetration is partly impeded by the resistance of small companies to become EDI capable. To investigate this issue, three major factors are identified that influence the EDI adoption practices of small firms. These factors are: organizational readiness (b...

The development in the late 1980s of two dimensional bar code symbologies capable of storing kilobytes of information in a single symbol and unlimited data in multiple symbols has led to the suggestion that bar code could be used as a medium for transmitting EDI messages. This paper considers whether such a suggestion targets any real business problem and whether such a system would work in pra...

Electronic data interchange, or EDI, has been discussed in literature as a technology that can provide a strategic advantage to its adopters, like other interorganizational information systems. However, its actual rate of adoption is nowhere near the predictions. Authors are now reconsidering their assessment of EDI's advantages and its role in organizations' strategies. However, using works fo...

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is one of the main requirements in a cooperative environment, more so in an environment that is predestined to the cooperation of various companies and enterprises. The challenge to unify the heterogeneous distributed data sources of the aforementioned companies and enterprises for consistent, easy extensible and versatile data access is met with the Grid Seaml...

Standardized business documents, data definitions, item description and identification, and business processes have been seen as key to effective interorganizational commerce since the 1980s, when electronic data interchange (EDI) became the technology of choice for business-to-business coordination. Vertical information systems (VIS) standards are designed to promote communication and coordina...

INTRODUCTION Electronic data interchange (EDI) technology gives organizations an opportunity to exchange their information and messages electronically, instead of with paper documents, and leads to a new way of doing business known as electronic commerce (EC). The benefits of EDI include less delay in data handling and labour savings in the areas of data transcription, controls, and error inves...