Take a look at realising EDI-projects from two sides.
The first aspect come from large scale enterprises (industry or trade). This large scale enterprises shift working their business to EDI a long time ago, because using the advantage of this technologie. The profit that realized, partially lies in a range of two-digit million. From this strong market position concrete EDI-demands can put on addiced supplier and subcontractor.
The supplier and subcontractor are refer to the second aspect. Their EDI activities don't happen from conviction or the end to use business administrational advantages because of an EDI-implementation. It is only often a reaction of the demand from an important business partner, who supposed EDI for beginning or maintenance a business connection. In this case, the absolute EDI capability is the attribute of capacity from the firm, the standby, to converte EDI messages, reading and handling incoming messages.
As an optimal alternative to fax- and paper-communication, using EDI for external business, to communicate with partner and government for similar business communication, like e.g. offers, orders, assembly scheduled, call for delivery, price lists, test reports, invoices, cargo handling, payment orders, accounts current, turnover tax declaration, etc.
End of using EDI in firms are realising the communication between all business-partners possible cheap and optimized in time.
