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1.0 WHAT IS ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI)? Australia's largest retailer has approached us, to submit a proposal on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI); what it is, how it would be implemented in their company, the benefits of implementing EDI, the internal restructuring of the company, the technologies involved, and the analysis of the derivatives of EDI. The resulting study reports that the potential benefits within the retail industry are high. EDI is 'the exchange of documents in standardized electronic form, between organizations, in an automated manner, directly from a computer application in one organization to an application in another'. EDI is the transfer of data between different companies using networks, such as the Internet. As more and more companies get connected to the Internet, EDI is becoming increasingly important as an easy mechanism for companies to buy, sell, and trade information. EDI allows new ways of carrying out tasks, as well as making provisions...

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