Chapter Fourteen. UCCnet and RosettaNet: Supply Chain Integration Standards

The power of supply chain integration is something we've just begun to understand. Product-intensive companies such as Wal-Mart, Ford, Boeing, and many others all wrestle with the problem of linking to customers and suppliers in real time, providing a mechanism to automate the exchange of information such as orders, payments, logistics, and so on.

We will cover supply chain integration in great detail in Chapter 17. However, we will begin our discussion here by looking at the two of the most significant supply chain integration standards: UCCnet and RosettaNet. Each has its own set of industries for which it is applicable (UCCnet for retail supply chains, RosettaNet ...

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