The more common
standards are ANSI ??????X12,??™??™ which originated in the United States, and EDIFACT,
which was developed under UN auspices. EDIFACT was conceived as a comprehensive
solution to
. EDI for administration
. EDI for commerce
. EDI for transportation requirement
Subsequent participation by global suppliers of business software, represented by the
OASIS Group, simpli?¬?ed the EDI standards, particularly for small and medium enterprises
(SMEs), by using the ??????XML??™??™ language. This UN=CEFACT initiative comprised the following
WorkGroups, in which XML has been universally adopted as the de facto standard,
particularly for Internet commerce (refer Figure 6.2).
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The learning scenario preferred by the author in introducing EDI and automated
identi?¬?cation technologies is, thus, a supply chain management scenario, using business
(modeling) processes in business-to-business (B2B) trading. Logistics management
provides the detailed context. This scenario has been used as the basis of EDI instruction
at Deakin University, and from 1992 to 1997 in India through the All India
Management Association.
A useful instructional schematic for the EDI business cycle, and consequently, for
training in logistics management and in automated identi?¬?cation requirements, is shown
in Figure 6.
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