What Managers Need to Know About the Revolution in Business

This describes the techniques for setting up and maintaining electronic data interchange. EDI is the new business development, based on the electronic mail model, which allows participating companies to share information, providing instant transmission of orders, invoices, and fund transfers.

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Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the new business development which, based on the electronic mail model, allows participating companies to share information, providing instant transmission of orders, invoices, and fund transfers. The implementation of an effective communications program is as much an administrative challenge as a technical one, and that's why the author has written this guide. Baker describes the techniques for setting up and maintaining electronic data interchange.