Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. Let’s start with a quick primer on EDI and VANs. EDI has existed since the early ...

While many retailers tend to be reluctant to embrace new technology, Wal-Mart Stores and Supervalu are not among them. Those two companies remain among the most forward-thinking users of technology in ...

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 ...

Around the time that the group that approves such things signed off on XML 1.0 in February of 1998, the trade press began to write the obituary for electronic data interchange (EDI), which it ...

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 ...

The B2B commerce landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Companies that fail to modernize their data exchange processes risk falling behind more agile competitors. The post Digital ...