EDI

Computer software used to perform the conversion of application data to and from a standard. Usually licensed rather than developed in-house. May have subsystems for mapping, auditing, and document management.

Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport. The international EDI Standard as developed through the United Nations.

B2B industry group in high tech and electronics industries in Europe. Also EDIFACT EDI standard subset for those industries.

The trade standards body for the global book and serials supply chains.

Transaction document formats in XML that mirror and extend the functionality of existing X12, TRADACOMS and EDIFACT messages for the book trade and library sectors.

Electronic payment in which funds are transferred between bank accounts at different financial institutions.

Japanese EDI standard.

Conducting business between computers through the use of digital exchange.

The computer-to-computer transfer of business transaction information using standard, industry-accepted message formats.

The process of sending, receiving, storing, and/or forwarding messages in digital form via telecommunication.

The smallest item of information in the standard.

Single character delimiter; follows the segment identifier and each data element in a segment except the last.

The number that identifies each element from the segment diagram with its corresponding definition in the data dictionary.

The standard abbreviation for Electronic Mail.

The process of transforming clear text (data in its original form) into cipher text (the output of a cryptographic algorithm) for security or privacy.

Anyone who uses a computer system or its output.

The use of middleware to integrate the application programs, databases, and legacy systems involved in an organization’s critical business processes.

Packaged software systems using database technology and a single interface to control all the information related to a company’s business, including customer, product, employee, and financial data.

The combination of header, trailer, and sometimes other control segments, that define the start and end of an individual EDI message.

The IP-based network for the European automotive industry.

Electronic product code. A 96-bit number whose format is governed by EPCglobal, a subsidiary of the GS1 standards body. Each RFID tag will contain a unique EPC.

A subsidiary of the EAN.UCC international standards body which governs the format of EPCs.

Method for initiating payment to a supplier that replaces the invoice. Used primarily in the auto industry. First the price is agreed upon by a blanket or other purchase order. Next, a material release tells the supplier the quantity to deliver. An advance ship notice confirms the quantity actually being delivered, and payment is triggered…

Applications and translator exchanging message sets as soon as they are created or received.

Extensible Markup Language is designed to improve the functionality of the Web by providing more flexible and adaptable information identification. It is called extensible because it is not a fixed format like Hypertext Markup Language (a single, predefined markup language). Instead, Extensible Markup Language is actually a metalanguage (a language for describing other languages) that…

A collection of related records treated as a basic unit of storage in a computer system.

The format into which a file is arranged by the computer, so that the information it contains can be retrieved on demand.

A computer file where all the information is run together in a single character string.

The SWIFT FIN is a message transfer based store and forward system. FIN is the main messaging mechanism used today on SWIFTNet and is used by corporates for liquidity and risk management purposes

File Transfer Protocol. A standard method of transmitting files from one computer to another over the internet.