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Article: EDI is in your future: bet on it. (electronic data interchange in inventory control)
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- Modern Materials Handling
- Article date:
- October 1, 1989
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ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE
EDI is in your future: Bet on it
Electronic data interchange will be a cornerstone of inventory control in the '90s.
For most of Ford Motor Co.'s suppliers, electronic data interchange (EDI) was probably a great unknown not too long ago. But this month, EDI becomes a fact of life for all the hundreds of suppliers to Ford's 57 plants.
Just by itself, that development might be important only to those companies directly involved. But Ford's use of EDI to streamline inter-company communications is just the tip of an iceberg. From the pharmaceutical industry to the Department of Defense, EDI is poised to be ...