Fliedner (2003) details some obstacles to collaboration and CPFR as being lack of
trust in sharing information; availability and cost of technology; and expertise and
fragmented information sharing standards. He adds that synchronising how the
metrics of the supply chain are captured and methods of compatible data interchange
are important issues. Standardisation of electronic connections across a number of
trading partners is an important factor in keeping connection costs low adding to
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success factors of a project (Christiaanse & Markus, 2003). Hasselbring and Welgand
(2001) state that for organisations to exchange information they must agree
on the form of information messages and define the meaning of the information.
Collaboration may be driven by technical partnerships such as EDI (Walker, 1994),
which provides a vehicle for integration activities (S??nchez & P?©rez, 2003).
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