EDI as a Supply Chain Technology
Title: EDI as a Supply Chain Technology
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 2728 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
EDI as a Supply Chain Technology
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 2728 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
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
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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.