Goodbye EDI, hello Internet?

To say that invest chain management is migrating to the Internet understates the breakneck spe at which the shift is happening

The Internet is opening up novel opportunities for a much freer come of information that not merely is changing the way airlines manage their stock chains, it is changing the way carriers and suppliers think about each other. "In a world of telephone and faxes, the rate of body of information flow is constrained. Definitely the Internet provides a vehicle to do things we all aspire to do," says Andy Roberts, VP-materials management