Abstract
Since the 1970s, the world economy shift to information technology as the driving force behind the development of the times, international trade unprecedented active, intense market competition, with the sharp increase in world trade, bringing all kinds of trade documents and the surge in the number of documents, these Paper documents the high cost, slow delivery speed, double-handling, unable to cope with the rapidly changing market changes, in the process of logistics, data and documents from time to time over the handling of the transport time, in transportation and logistics, accurate and prompt information contact Ability to become increasingly important, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange, electronic data interchange) in a much-needed increase the transmission speed of business documents and handling the transfer of the common demand have emerged, as the world's most advanced technological means of trade , Is being rapidly promoted. Since EDI is widely used in the logistics field is also known as the logistics EDI.
Based on the concept of EDI, EDI development background and the basic functions of the constituent elements of EDI, as well as the principle and operation of the process, and with Singapore and Shanghai Lianhua in EDI further technical analysis of the successful application of EDI in the domestic and international logistics In the field of operational use and the resulting huge economic effect and influence, and the prospects for the future development of EDI given description. At the same time also against China's national conditions in China EDI and the practical application of a state of comparative analysis, described in the application of our existence and the need to resolve some issues and raised some suggestions.