Electronic Data Interchange: A Review

EDI encourages long-term commitment with trading partners, makes the transmission of information more efficient, and allows firms to be more responsive to customer needs through shorter order cycles. The electronic data interchange technology allows to do the simultaneously reducing costs by reducing paper, mail expense, and delays due to data entry errors This paper presenting here the business issues and describes existing and potential solutions and it is a transmission in a standard syntax of unambiguous information of business or strategic significance between computers of independent organization. This paper also representing the AS2 specification, implementation and EDI data transmitted over the Internet.