THE STATE OF EDI USAGE IN THE MOTOR CARRIER INDUSTRY
Deborah A. Johnson, B J Allen, Michael R. Crum · Journal of Business Logistics · 1992
The management of information has become increasingly important to the transportation industry since deregulation. The survival of transportation firms may depend on how well management utilizes technology in developing information systems and in connecting these systems to their intemal and extemal environments. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one form of technology that is gaining currency within the transportation industry. EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of business applications between firms using strictly standardized formats.