EDI Standards:
- The standard is the most critical part of the entire EDI. Since EDI is the data transmission and information exchange in the form of an agreed message format, it is important to develop a unified EDI standard.
- The EDI standard is mainly divided into the following aspects:
basic standards, codestandards, message standards, document standards, management standards, application standards, communication standards and security standards.
- The first industry-specific EDI standard was the TDCC published by the Transportation Data coordinating Committee in 1975.
- Then other industries started developing unique standards based on their individual needs.
E.g. WINS in the warehousing industry.
- Since the application of EDI has become more mature, the target of trading operations is often not limited to a single industry.
- In 1979, the American National Standards Institute Accredited Standard Committee (ANSI ASC) developed a wider range of EDI standard called ANSI XI2.
- On the other hand, the European region has also developed an integrated EDI standard. Known as GTDI (Guideline for Trade Data Interchange).
- ANSI X12 and GTDI have become the two regional EDI standards in North America and Europe respectively.
- After the development of the two major regional EDI standards and a few years after trial, the two standards began to integrate and conduct research and development of common EDI standards.
- Subsequently, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE/WP.4) hosted the task of the development of international EDI standards. In 1986, UN/EDIFACT is officially proposed. The most widely used EDI message standards are the United Nations EDIFACT and the ANSI X12.
