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Using Simulation to Evaluate Electronic Data Interchange

Using Simulation to Evaluate Electronic Data Interchange

Dothang Truong
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781599044774|ISBN10: 1599044773|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616927806|EISBN13: 9781599044798
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4.ch009
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Truong, Dothang. "Using Simulation to Evaluate Electronic Data Interchange." Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems, edited by Angappa Gunasekaran, IGI Global, 2007, pp. 183-200. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4.ch009

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Truong, D. (2007). Using Simulation to Evaluate Electronic Data Interchange. In A. Gunasekaran (Ed.), Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems (pp. 183-200). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4.ch009

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Truong, Dothang. "Using Simulation to Evaluate Electronic Data Interchange." In Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems, edited by Angappa Gunasekaran, 183-200. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4.ch009

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Abstract

Reluctance of organizations to invest in electronic data interchange (EDI, Internet based EDI, and XML/EDI) is largely due to their inability to assess the return on these investments. We identify prescriptive and evaluative methodologies for analyzing investment in EDI: non-financial methods, purely financial methods, and financial and strategic consideration methods. We also show how computer simulation can be used as a tool for assessing EDI. Evaluating the benefits resulting from EDI implementation were illustrated through the well-known Beer Game. Our analysis and review also identifies difficulties involved in assessing the benefits of EDI in supply chains.

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