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The effects of EDI on industrial buyer-seller relationships: a network perspective. (electronic data interchange)

International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management

| June 22, 1996 | Marcussen, Carl H. | COPYRIGHT 1996 National Association of Purchasing Management, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

BACKGROUND

This article deals with the effects of a rapidly developing phenomenon at the intersection of the converging fields of computing technology and telecommunications - namely, electronic data interchange (EDI). EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of standard business documentation in machine-processable form. The most common applications today are purchase orders and invoices. The justification for use of EDI is that a large part - perhaps 70 percent - of all business documents are printed from one computer and later rekeyed into another computer.[1] Consequently, by linking computers via telecommunication, the potential for administrative cost reduction ...

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