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...

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...

How does Information and Communication Technology (IT) influence boundaries within and across organizations? Most of the research to date has considered the impact of technologies linking buyers and suppliers, focusing on interorganizational technology such as electronic markets. Our paper takes a different view, focusing on a firm’s overall boundaries, as opposed to individual make-orbuy decis...

XML is the proposed electronic publishing and data interchange format of the future. Currently XML is immature with little tool support, particularly for end-user World Wide Web browser display. At present many journal publishers typeset their articles, or at least their article metadata, in SGML which is converted to HTML for end-user display. The SGML article metadata is used for electronic d...

Supply Chain Forum An International Journal Vol. 3 N°2 2002 www.supplychain-forum.com This paper reports the results from a survey to Spanish automotive suppliers about the adoption of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). The paper focuses on the differences between first-tiers and second-tiers about barriers, benefits and motives for adopting EDI. The survey also analyzes the differences in the ...

Currently, the coordination between supply chain participants is normally organised via a scan packing system and communicated through electronic data interchange technology. However, the scan pack process is costly and time consuming. Using the electronic product code technology defined by EPCglobal, two national demonstrator projects have been developed to explore the suitability of RFID to t...