The Application Of EDI: Empirical Evidence

Abstract

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one technology that has enabled B2B E-Commerce to speak to each other electronically in order to transmit information from sender to receiver in the format the receiver wants. B2B E-Commerce is no longer synonymous with EDI (Pathak & Baldwin, 2008). In UAE, EDI usage is in its early stage of implementation and research is highly tempted. This paper investigates the application of EDI in UAE by providing empirical evidence as to whether EDI application significantly and positively correlates to volume, cost, and profitability.