Coty uses EDI to process orders electronically with Wal-Mart. What’s new in Coty’s setup is the transport mechanism: Coty is swapping EDI messages with Wal-Mart over the Internet, rather than using a ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- With the advent of new forms of e-commerce, some predicted the demise of electronic data interchange (EDI). But many big players in the supermarket industry, including Nash Finch here, ...

When a company as big as Wal-Mart talks, everybody listens. When the retailer announced in September that it would do electronic data interchange (EDI) with suppliers over the Web instead of using ...

Over the past few years, the Internet has had a dramatic impact on the way retailers and wholesalers communicate with their product suppliers. In such areas as B2B trading exchanges, data ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced last week that it has chosen an Internet-based protocol for electronic data exchange with thousands of its national and global suppliers. Wal-Mart said that the use of ...

A major commitment from the Department of Defense is expected to give a critical boost to a Web-based, business-to-business communications framework that supporters call the next EDI. The framework is ...