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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celigo, a leading integration platform as a service company (iPaaS), announced today the launch of B2B Manager, a new solution designed to simplify self-service ...

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 ...

When we think about enterprise applications it’s easy to think only of the code that runs behind our firewalls, in our data centers, and in instances running on public clouds. We usually forget one of ...

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 ...