Electronic data interchange exchanges business information between systems using agreed structured message formats. Orders or shipment notices can then be processed electronically; a free-text email is not equivalent.[1]
Agree on field meanings and error handling as well as the format. A message can arrive technically yet fail business validation because an item code is unknown. Establish acknowledgements and a correction process too.
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