Steps involved in the implementation of EDI in a company
- 2. • Understanding EDI • Evaluate Your Situation • Identify Trading Partners • Develop Project Plan • Define Your EDI Process • Choose EDI Translation Software
- 3. • Mapping Data To and From EDI • Application Development, Integration, and Automation • Establishing Trading Partner Agreements • EDI Testing • EDI Implementation
- 5. • VAN is a communication network that typically exchanges EDI messages among trading partners. • It provides services, including holding messages in “ electronic mailboxes", interfacing with other VANS • Disadvantage is EDI-enabling VANs is that they are slow & high-priced, charging by the no. of characters transmitted.
- 6. Internet-Based EDI- Several factors make internet useful for EDI: • Flat-pricing that is not dependent on the amount of information transferred. • Cheap access with low cost of connection- often a flat monthly fee for leased line or dial- up access. • Common mail standards & proven networking & interoperable systems. • Security--public-key encryption techniques are being incorporated in various electronic mail systems.
- 8. Role of Information Systems: • Operational Excellence • Develop New Product and Services • Attain Customer Intimation and Service • Improve Decision Making • Promote Competitive Advantage • Ensure Survival
- 9. WORK FLOW AUTOMATION AND COORDINATION
- 10. • In last decade, a vision of speeding up or automating routine business tasks has come to be known as “work-flow automation. This vision has its root in the invention of the assembly line and the application of Taylor's scientific management principles. Today, a similar trend is emerging in the automation of knowledge-based business processes called work-flow automation. The goal of work- flow automation is to offer more timely, cost-effective, and integrated ways to make decisions. Typically, work-flows are decomposed into steps or tasks, which are task oriented. Work-flows can be simple or complex. Simple work-flows typically involve one or two steps or tasks.
- 11. • Another way of looking at work-flow is to determine the amount of cross-functional activity. In other words, companies must adopt an integrated process view of all the business elements. Organizational integration is extremely complex and typically involves three steps Improving existing processes by utilizing technology where appropriate. Integrate across the business function offer identifying the information needs for each process. Integrating business functions, application program interface, and database across departments and groups. Complex work-flows involve several other work-flows, some of which Executes simultaneously.