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Retail chains increasingly value automation when cooperating with suppliers. Orders, invoices, article master etc. are exchanged electronically via EDI or XML. Of course interfaces of Central European chains, such as Billa, hogast, Metro or Spar are quite different – a problem left to suppliers to resolve...
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The significance of electronic data exchange within logistics or technology is ever increasing. For suppliers, whose profit margins are low, implementation expenses for electronic communication represent a considerable, if not exasperating cost strain...
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Within Information Technology , due to a lack of transparency in programming, invalid interfaces or incomplete data migrations cause enormous costs. Manual implementation of XML-based data transformation, however, is rather costly...
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