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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Liteglow (LTGL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Angel D who wrote (682)	3/9/1998 8:40:00 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4715

please correct me if i'm wrong [and i'm sure you will [g]], Ach! You're on to me! :) at my company, edi means that the customer literally plugs into our computer system, with certain restrictions. that is, without ever speaking to anyone, they can browse our product list, place an order, monitor production scheduling, the production order itself, production progress, the shipping date and receive their invoice. it's quite a commitment by the manufacturer to allow a customer this much access. I'm no EDI specialist (I've worked with EDI consultants and have written many EDI-like systems), but my experience with it has been much what you've described, except I've never seen the interactive aspect. The systems I've seen have been for companies to move data back and forth between dissimilar databases. EDI is simply the middle-man. In the case of LTGL, I would assume that RS insists on all of its vendors using EDI so that when order data is gathered from all of the stores, it can be submitted electronically to LTGL, dramatically reducing human efforts.

To: Angel D who wrote (682)	3/9/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: SJ - Stephen	Respond to of 4715

Angel, <<at my company, edi means that the customer literally plugs into our computer system, with certain restrictions. that is, without ever speaking to anyone, they can browse our product list, place an order, monitor production scheduling, the production order itself, production progress, the shipping date and receive their invoice. it's quite a commitment by the manufacturer to allow a customer this much access.>> EDI, Automated fax systems, and the connection you describe above are what can be called EC, Electronic Commerce. Check out the link,, premenos.com Using EDI both trading partners don't care what the others' data looks like, for templates are used to send receive data. Communication is performed through a VAN(Value Added Network). These are secure servers that act like mailboxes. IBM, MCI and there are others that act as VANS. New software is coming out that will allow these transactions to occur over the internet. Thus, reducing the cost of transmitting the data. The connection you do, I think is easier. For, with tight security I am able to limit what the account can get into. And I do not have to spend bucks on an EDI translator and programming time. The main expense is communication costs and gear. But now with E-Commerce over the net, you could serve your customers via one connection. That connection being over the net. As far as LiteGlow, they could be using a low cost EDI package. And they may not have it fully integrated into their current systems. SJ