1970s Events |
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EDI began to be used for a wider variety of frequent and repetitive business documents, like purchase orders and invoices. Additionally, more and more industries began to implement early EDI systems. Multiple industries were basically doing their own thing, so the core reason of using EDI began to erode, especially when companies worked across industries. Industries were developing their own standards.
TDCC: Transportation Data Coordinating Committee, which worked from 1968 to 1975 to develop a series of EDI standards documents for Air, rail, truck and ocean. So EDI really began in the transportation industries, but many large fortune 500 companies had in interest in the development of the early EDI standards.
The grocery industry was the next major industry to begin using EDI, then the Electronics and Chemical industries.
Each industry tended to develop its own standards – nothing was going
across industry at the time.