Abstract
Data integration in today’s supply chain becomes more and more challenging for companies. In the age when technology is not so much obstacle for integration the few others appeared, related to: different systems in use, organization’s aspects, standards in use, growing number of players in global supply chains and continues business changes. These article shows how data integration has been changing through years from one hand adopting new technologies and from the other adapting to business requirements. Thanks a wide spectrum of researches, surveys, consultation with IT managers responsible in their organization for data integration and EDI on-boarding projects. Authors were able to conclude on some of near future data integration aspects as well as to assess what solutions would have to be compromised and which bring true values for companies and trading partners. The professional experience of authors brings the true value to the article because it is based on real daily examples of data integration in global supply chains, also an experience in research projects for e-administration and idea of building blocks for partner integrations shows even more ways of where the future of data integration is heading to.
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There are some exception of this rule. When emails are sent automatically, attachments are automatically pass to information system, and attachment have defined structure where business information are stored. E.G. PDF forms files, Excel files. Those cases eventually could be treat as an EDI.
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WEB-EDI—The half automated EDI solutions when one side uses a manual process for providing and receiving the data. In most cases it uses a web page with forms for data provision.
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VAN’s network—these are connectivity’s and agreements about data interchange between VAN providers, which secures data interchange between a company having an agreement with VAN A and company having agreement with VAN B.
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VAN—A value-added network (VAN) is a private, hosted service that provides companies with a secure way to send and share data with its counterparties. Value-added networks were a common way to facilitate electronic data interchange (EDI) between companies.
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Blockchain—is a transaction database shared by all nodes participating in a system based on the Bitcoin protocol. A full copy of a currency's block chain contains every transaction ever executed in the currency. With this information, one can find out how much value belonged to each address at any point in history.
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SSCC—Single Shipping Container Code, Unique identifier for logistic unit In transportation and warehousing.
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EDIFACT—Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport (UN/ EDIFACT) international norm for data interchange created by United Nations.
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XML—Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
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GS1 XML—GS1 set of electronic messages developed using XML, a language designed for information exchange over internet.
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UBL—Universal Business Language (UBL) is a library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices. UBL was developed by an OASIS.
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Comarch XML—set of XML messages standard maintained by Comarch company In Poland company, EDI provider.
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Web service—is a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the World Wide Web.
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SOAP—SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol specification or exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks.
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EPCIS—Electronic Product Code Information Service—is a GS1 standard that enables trading partners to share information about the physical movement and status of products as they travel throughout the supply chain—from business to business and ultimately to consumers. It helps answer the “what, where, when and why” questions to meet consumer and regulatory demands for accurate and detailed product information.
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SOAP—Simple Object Access Protocol is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. Its purpose is to induce extensibility, neutrality and independence.
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JSON—JavaScript Object Notation is an open-standard file format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and array data types (or any other value). JSON is a language-independent data format. It was derived from JavaScript, but as of 2017 many programming languages include code to generate and parse JSON-format data. The official Internet media type for JSON is application/json. JSON filenames use the extension .json.
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Debicki, T., Guzman, C. (2020). Challenges in Future Data Interchange in Transport and Logistics Sector. In: Kolinski, A., Dujak, D., Golinska-Dawson, P. (eds) Integration of Information Flow for Greening Supply Chain Management. EcoProduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24355-5_6
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