The Future of the Supply Chain Is (Almost) Here
Technologies such as RFID have transformed other industries. Is the book industry next?
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Another example is electronic data interchange (EDI) messaging, where the goal is to facilitate machine-to-machine communication for purchase orders, order acknowledgements and invoices.
“For us, the end game is all about enabling the automation of these business communication messages,” Healy says.
Healy notes that standardization is especially important as the industry moves toward a digital supply chain. Publishers looking to share content safely and securely must be able to deal with multiple trading partners (booksellers, wholesalers, etc.), which has led to recent industry initiatives such as the establishment of the .epub file format as the standard for e-books.
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