EDI Y2K Readiness Survey Results

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EDI Y2K ReadinessSurvey Results

• Survey conducted at the
• ECR Technology Seminar
• Montreal
• June 18, 1998
• Sponsored by the
• Electronic Commerce Council of Canada

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Survey Questions

• Are you a distributor, manufacturer, broker, or
  other? If other, please specify.
• Does your organization have a Year 2000 Plan in
  place?
• Is your organization currently EDI enabled?
• Has your organization provided/received direction
  to/from trading partners relative to Y2K plans?
  What timelines have been provided?

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Questions (cont.)

• Does your organization plan to implement the
  standard 4010? If yes, 1998 or 1999?
• What software, network or testing service would
  be helpful to facilitate this migration?
• Are you planning to use another method to address
  Y2K for EDI? Please explain.
• When will you be ready to test Y2K Compliant
  Documents?

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Results Methodology

• 61 responses in total.
• Results grouped by Manufacturers (45 responses)
  Distributors (12 responses).
• Responses also received from Brokers (1 response)
  and Others (service bureau, 2 importer, 1). Due
  to insufficient numbers, these results are not
  tabulated.

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Manufacturers

• Does your organization have a Year 2000 Plan in
  place?

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Manufacturers

• Is your organization currently EDI enabled?

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Manufacturers

• Has your organization provided/received direction
  to/from trading partners relative to Y2K plans?

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Manufacturers

• What timelines have been provided?
• (For Yes responses to previous question)

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Manufacturers

• Does your organization plan to implement the
  standard 4010? If yes, 1998 or 1999?

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Manufacturers

• What software, network or testing service would
  be helpful to facilitate this migration?

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Manufacturers

• Are you planning to use another method to address
  Y2K for EDI? Please explain.

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Manufacturers

• Sample written answers to previous question
• Most of our customers prefer Internet
  transactions. Our software is Y2K ready.
• v3030 X12
• SAP implement.
• We are implementing SAP Gentra client server

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Manufacturers

• When will you be ready to test Y2K Compliant
  Documents?

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Distributors

• Does your organization have a Year 2000 Plan in
  place?

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Distributors

• Is your organization currently EDI enabled?

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Distributors

• Has your organization provided/received direction
  to/from trading partners relative to Y2K plans?

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Distributors

• What timelines have been provided?
• (For Yes responses to previous question)

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Distributors

• Does your organization plan to implement the
  standard 4010? If yes, 1998 or 1999?

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Distributors

• What software, network or testing service would
  be helpful to facilitate this migration?

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Distributors

• Are you planning to use another method to address
  Y2K for EDI?

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Distributors

• Sample written answers to previous question
• In house testing

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Distributors

• When will you be ready to test Y2K Compliant
  Documents?