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standards to be used. With the increasing use of EDI, however, this procedure
has proven to be too difficult to practice. The Web-EDI standards are mainly driven by
different organizations that have relationships with different industries. For example, in
Europe the VDA standard of the German Association of the Automotive Industry is one of
the commonly accepted descriptions of Web-EDI and is based on the well-known EDIFACT
standards. Some Web-EDI software products based on these standards are implemented
several hundred times in Europe
Newer trends and solutions in Web-EDI (IBM, 2003b) ignore the need for EDI and the
EDIFACT standard and provide direct ways to connect the ERP-system of an enterprise
with a web-EDI portal using a Web-EDI server ().
The trend is that an explicit EDI server with translation to the intermediate format of EDIFACT
or ODETTE is considered unnecessary for small- and intermediate-size organizations since
an XML-interface performs the same service. illustrates an example describing
this model (EDI Comp., 2003b).
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