‘Good data exchange is key to e-commerce’_2
19 July 2012
UK retailers with worldwide trading interests must improve the accuracy of the data they exchange with suppliers for e-commerce to succeed, an industry group has claimed.
Peter Jordan, systems director at Kraft European and board member of industry body Global Commerce Initiative (GCI), said that companies should learn from incompatibility problems with electronic data interchange (EDI) before embracing web-based systems.
The GCI, which has a membership of 50 international retailers and manufacturers, was set up last year to...