organizations using agreed, open standards. In the past
the development of these standards was a major
obstacle to the introduction of EDI, but now
several standards have been developed: EDIFACT
is the ISO standard, while ANSI X12 is an
American standard that is currently the most
widely used EDI standard. In logistic systems
EDI facilitates automatic ordering, generation of
status reports and financial reports, etc. General
advantages of using EDI instead of other forms
of information exchange are the improvement of
effectiveness and efficiency of processes. The
main advantage of EDI in the logistic area is the
fact that it enables the development or improvement
of logistic concepts, such as: