EDI vs E-Commerce Question - Pardon my ignorance...

Hi Folks !

I'm at a small company and while we aren't quite ready for E-Commerce
JUST yet (just came off a Unix box and onto the AS/400 this past
January...) we are trying to learn all we can. We are a wholesale
distributor.

One BIG question I have is if a supplier decides to allow PO entry over
the internet how this works. Currently everything I've seen is you fire
up your browser and hit a site and get screens to input info.

This is A MAJOR manual process with all KINDS of possibilities for
errors, etc. No linkage back to companies native database, etc.

With EDI ordering on the other hand, you would enter a PO through your
NORMAL process/package and if EDI capable, the order would go out that
way. Your data base is updated and they get the info they need...

OK, so I MUST be missing something here with E-Commerce, PLEASE
enlighten me !! :-)

TIA,

Chuck

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