Study Of The Incoming Edi Promote The Use Of, A Number Of Issues

With the development of the global integrative economy, it is necessary for corporations to realize information share, so as to consolidate and extend trade relationship. At the same time, computer technology, especially the development of web technology boost the global computer network system, facilitate information share between different regions. According to a certain agreement and standard, using network, achieving information share, this is EDI. EDI began to be applied by many corporations only in recent years, but most of them are all traditional nationalized corporation, astricted by planned economy for a long period, of which assets structure was illogical, technology was dated, administration was mess. On the other hand, our country participating WTO can be expected soon, and at that time there would have many foreign shipping companys with abundant capital and technology to enter shipping market of our country by all kinds of channels, bringing strong competitive pressure to our shipping corporations. Therefore, it is important and necessary to do deeply study on EDI application not only in view of technology but also in view of management. in this article, author lucubrated EDt application area, application benefit, adoption factors both domestic and foreign company by using normalization and demonstration analysis method, tried to find out difference between them and internal rule, concluded applied strategy, help corporation to improve management level, achieve much competitive advantage. Seeing about EDt evolution in developed country, we found related corporation must constitute value-added service based on EDt to provide more valuable information to user for EDI survival and development, but not only depending on simple data transmission, in view of global EDt evolution, EDI has two trends one is information share, another is e-commerce. Reviewing EDt抯 history in our country, great progress has been taken, but there still have big difference compared with other countries, especially european and american countries. Domestic corporation use EDt mainly for infrastructure and simple data transmission, value-added service is still in original period, the opened EDt system has not been established. However, port hold a plentiful shipping information, therefore, port has a great potency to develop information process. Shanghai port, the biggest container port of china, has set to develop related shipping value-added service based on EDt, and achieved distinct progress, including: data abstracting, and sorting; dynamic vessel/container/cargo information inquiry, statistics and analysis, etc, which is of the characteristic of corporation management; in addition, these information are also provided as the basis of decision- making for government. At the same time, shanghai port only used half a year to establish port and shipping information website with the characteristic of container transportation sector, and began to provide timely and exact information about vessel/container/cargo dynamic tracer. The next step they plan to do is utilizing specialized web to energetically develop e-commerce, founding the trade flat for freight agents and freight owners, freight agents and shipping agents(shipping line), custom declaration, booking , electronic terminal operation, furthermore, cooperating with bank for electronic payment on web. In general, why EDI tenology is adopted by one coporation is EDt can bring considerable benefits for it. Theoretical...