Senn (1998) adding that the full potential of EDI systems will not be
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realised until a larger proportion of organisations are able to participate. In a survey
undertaken in 2005 of a sample of the Australian timber and wood products industry
it was found that 92% of the respondents belonged to an organisation consisting
of fewer than 100 employees and so can therefore be classed as SMEs (Blake &
Pease, 2005b). It can be concluded that cost of traditional EDI has formed a barrier
to the adoption of EDI in the industry (Blake & Pease, 2005a).
Traditional EDI requires trading partners to agree on message standards which dictate
the structure and content of the message, with two well known standards being
ANSI X.12 which is used mainly in North America and UN/EDIFACT used in the
rest of the world (Lu & Wu, 2004). Trastour, Bartolini and Preist (2002) describe the
necessity for agreement as locking in, as trading terms and conditions were locked in
as part of the agreement.
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