Electronic Data Interchange- EDI

LEARNING OBJECTIVES To acquire basic knowledge on EDI To know the brief history of EDI To understand the types of EDI To learn the advantages of EDI To know about the layers of EDI To study about UN/EDIFACT Chapter Electronic Data Interchange- EDI In , a group of supermarket companies and their business partners begin drafting and using an EDI project. The TDCC is renamed as Electronic Data Interchange Association (EDIA) in . Later in that year, the EDIA was undertaken by the American National Standards Institute and becomes the ANSIX12 committee. Since then this committee is responsible for the publication of EDI standards.

Later in , UN created the EDIFACT to assist with the global reach of technology in E-Commerce. EDIFACT is the most widely used EDI. Like many other early information technologies, EDI was also inspired by developments in Defense