Over the past few years, the Internet has had a dramatic impact on the way retailers and wholesalers communicate with their product suppliers. In such areas as B2B trading exchanges, data ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, based here, plans to shortly mandate that all of its suppliers become equipped to exchange Web-based EDI (electronic data interchange) documents with the retailer ...

Online marketplace Covisint has launched Version 2.0 of its Covisint Supplier Connection, a new Web-based electronic data interchange (EDI) tool that will enable small automotive suppliers to ...

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 (EDI) was an innovation — allowing trading partners to transmit purchase orders, shipping notices, invoices and other documents — back in the 1970s. But most EDI systems ...