Sure, EDI directories exist today. For example, in Healthcare HIPAA EDI, Claredi maintains an "open" directory; see http://www.claredi.com/ and select "Directory." Of course, it's a little constrained because not everyone allows their detailed capabilities (e.g., list transaction sets supported) to be shown to everybody by default.
William J. Kammerer Novannet Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "eric_christ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 30 January, 2005 02:48 PM Subject: [EDI-L] Re: <MISC> EDI Coordinator Trading Partner Contacts Just to clarify one point, LinkedIn is designed to help people find additional connections, it's not a invitation-only club. You have the ability to accept any request and to post your e-mail address publicly. The purpose of the service is to identify who you know that knows someone who you may want to contact. Check it out at www.linkedin.com. Now that I think about it, we need a LinkedIn-type service for EDI trading partners. A list of not just who does EDI, but who does EDI with whom. In this service, a company would list its supported transactions, VAN connections, and trading partners. There are 1,500+ subscribers to this message board. Taking 30 percent out for analysts, vendors, duplicate companies, leaves perhaps 1,000 distinct companies who are conducting EDI. If everyone would contribute their list of trading partners (let's assume five per subscriber), we would instantly have a trading partner connection database of 5,000 (assuming no overlaps). Harbinger built something like this for the automotive industry, AutoChain Online. The objective was to allow participants in the automotive supply chain, suppliers and OEMs, to track e- commerce readiness of their suppliers. Does anything like this exist today? Anybody want to help build it? . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
