Information systems used in carrefour

·       Benefits of EDI:

   There are a lot of benefits of EDI , the more important benefits of  this system in the companies  are :

1.    EDI  Remove document re-keying

The company  can get  many  benefits from implementing EDI which helps in  remove  the manual keying of key business documents such as Orders, Invoices and Acknowledgment. Some of these benefits are:

·         reduced labour costs.

·         elimination of human keying errors.

·         faster document processing.

·         instant document retrieval.

·         removal of reliance on the postal service.

2.    EDI  lead to Eliminate paper

Implementing Paper-based trading relationships in the company  have  some disadvantages when compared with their  in electronic trading equivalents:

• stationery and printer consumable costs
• document storage costs
• lost documents
• postage costs.