Most of the Aerospace and government agencies we deal with regularly are using web portals now for procurement and supply chain management. EDI/VAN is disappearing, as more large companies put their funds together to get out of their EDI sink holes. The costs of VANs, and operating an EDI infrastructure now, are a lot higher than before. That's mostly because so many people are moving off VANs, in favor of e-mail or web based EDI-friendly gateways. The portals are many times more intuitive and organized than EDI could ever be. In many cases, the move to web portals means less employee requirements and therefore layoffs. That is good or bad, depending on which side of the fence your sitting. However; EDI conversations are still in use, but the methods of the past are disappearing. We've looked into hooking up with EDI, but most of our large customers still use Sterling Commerce as their VAN. We don't have enough margin to pay Sterling, even with the small byte transmissions we'd probably be using. So, we do more business(and can offer better prices in general) to those who participate in a non-EDI required setting.
Glen http://picksource.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daly, Mark > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 6:19 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [U2] EDI anyone? > > > I've just been doing a bunch of work for EDI clients. There is a lot of > infrastructure in place that works well, and won't be replaced. The > standards are mature. Anyone wanting to interact with department > stores (in > the US anyway) had better get with EDI. I think the aerospace industry has > it's own flavor..... > > Now, the future of VANs.... That's a different story. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 5:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [U2] EDI anyone? > > Bruce, > > not definitive, but an answer none-the-less. > > I would say "Declining". > > The London (England) insurance market has been using EDI for many > years, but > has now commenced a migration to XML etc. > > Regards, > John Appleyard > Arthur J. Gallagher (UK) Limited > > > > > > Bruce Nichol > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent by: cc: (bcc: John > Appleyard/BSDUK/AJG) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] EDI > anyone? > er.u2ug.org > > > > > > 22/10/2004 04:30 > > Please respond to > > u2-users > > > > > > > > > > Goo'day, > > Is there anybody out there that can give a definitive answer to the future > of EDI..... > > Growing? Peaked? Stagnated? Declining? > > Regards, > > Bruce Nichol > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
