EDI as a Supply Chain Technology

EDI has resulted from the emergence of a few key technologies which have solved the tricky problem of getting different computers with different applications to talk to each other. EDI as a technology is basically very simple. You take some data, encode it into a known and agreed format, squirt it down a telephone line to a trading partner, who then decodes it and uses the data. EDI as a Business Process Redesign Enabler EDI …

…Standards Organisation. Mailbox;Allocated storage area within a VAN from which a user pulls all his transmissions. Mandatory;Statement that a data segment, data element, or component must be used in a standard. MIS;Management Information Systems. Modem;Combination modulator/demodulator hardware device which converts digital information to signals suitable for transmission across telephone lines (and vice versa). Modems can also provide equalisation of signals. MRP;Material Requirements Planning. MRPII<Manufacturing Resource Planning.