Before the Internet revolutionized e-commerce in the late 1990s, electronic data interchange (EDI) was one – if not the only – option for carriers to automate routine communications with shippers.

Automation has become a driving force in modern business, transforming areas such as manufacturing, customer service, and accounting. In accounting, particularly, financial electronic data interchange ...

Leveraging cloud-based platforms and APIs, modern EDI enables real-time data flow, automates error resolution, and gives you ...

Company B submits the flat-file invoice to its EDI translator, generating a similarly formatted EDI string, addressed back to Company A. Company B accesses its VAN and fires off the invoice, which ...

The office supply industry aims to provide its clients — made up of various-sized companies, public entities and non-business organizations — with all the equipment they need to complete their work.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the acute vulnerability of hitherto reliable business practices to profound economic shocks. For industries across the world, the awkward truth is that approaches ...

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EDI (electronic data interchange) is one of the core technologies—along with barcode labeling and scanning—that is used to enable supply chains. EDI and barcoding date back to the 1960s and 1970s, and ...

The global trend to implement mandatory e-invoicing is gaining momentum as governments around the world recognize the transformative potential of digitalization in modernizing tax administration ...