The second American Supply Association's Electronic Commerce Blue Ribbon Summit unveiled some solutions to the list of e-commerce obstacles discussed at the first meeting.
The second installment of the American Supply Association's Electronic Commerce Blue Ribbon Summit held July 22 in Oak Brook, Ill., unveiled some solutions to the list of e-commerce obstacles discussed at the first meeting in May.
To address the problem of standardization, Larry Mohr of F.W. Webb and others developed a preliminary set of standard electronic data interchange maps. These maps, called ASA EDIExpress, are a subset of EDIPro. To simplify the many EDI processes, the first phase of mapping standardization targeted four processes: standard business processes, vendor-managed inventory, catalog pricing and remittance electronic funds transfer.