Let’s face it: the more money you want to spend, the more likely it is that a solid ROI will be needed by the business to provide funding. If you’re talking about spending a million dollars implementing EDI software and building an EDI team, trust me, you’ll need one. It’s more of a grey area when you’re planning to do the bare minimum to satisfy a customer EDI mandate or even to implement additional partners onto an existing platform.  I think there are a limited number of scenarios you should consider when looking at ROI requirements, including:

When Scott gave us a heads-up about this month’s topic- projects involving the connection of EDI translators to ERP systems, I thought I’d have a lot to contribute. However, as I thought about it, I realized there are several variations of that type of project, and that would limit my input since I hadn’t experienced all of them. I can make some generalizations, though based on what we went through.

When I heard this month’s topic, the question of whether EDI has a role in the world of mobile eBusiness (m-commerce), my first thought was “why the heck not?” Even though I know little about m-commerce, I do know that anytime there’s a need for data to be transformed and moved, there’s a potential role for “EDI”. That’s the rub, though:  what do you mean by “EDI”?