Coty uses EDI to process orders electronically with Wal-Mart. What’s new in Coty’s setup is the transport mechanism: Coty is swapping EDI messages with Wal-Mart over the Internet, rather than using a ...

In spite of the recent boom in coverage, e-commerce is not new. For more than 30 years, EDI (electronic data interchange) has been one of the most important innovations to enterprise commerce for ...

When a company as big as Wal-Mart talks, everybody listens. When the retailer announced in September that it would do electronic data interchange (EDI) with suppliers over the Web instead of using ...

Electronic Data Interchange – the standard by which most order processing has taken place for what seems like 100 years, may be on its way out – at least in its familiar form. That’s thanks in part to ...