The latest EDI Money Saver
Hi there
I work in the UK book industry and all the Standards used are more or less set in stone so that electronic invoices from suppliers (In Tradacoms / EDIFACT) are all in the same format.
Thousands of hours are being saved in libraries because they have automated receipting by receiving electronic messages.
We have a governing body BIC (Book Industry Communications) who meet regularly to review all standards and their use.
Libraries, library suppliers, booksellers, publishers, distributors and wholesalers all win by trading electronically.
One chain of booksellers receive between 3 - 4 million invoices and credits - when they were receiving paper invoices they employed over 100 staff - this has been drastically reduced !!
To return to paper in our industry would be a disaster and be unaffordable.
Thanks for reading this !
Tony Wareing
TSM Nielsen Book Services
Biting the hand that feeds IT
