Frameworks on new XML/EDI system for B2B shipping companies in Korea

In this paper, we survey and analyze the actual conditions of EDI system for B2B business of transport companies in Korea. As the result of our analyses, it comes an old fashioned EDI system at harbor and logistics industry, and the VAN based systems are still widely used in Korea. In conclusion, the next generation EDI, XML/EDI, is very effective to solve these kinds of problems. So, we suggest and implement a scheme of XML/EDI as a substitute for the traditional one. We design and implement the XML/EDI system on B2B of shipping request to show the effectiveness and strength of XML/EDI over the traditional EDI. At first, we analyze the standard items of shipping request EDI, and define the document by the DTD of shipping request. And we implement the document creation module in order to generate the document without user´s knowledge of XML, and also implement XML storage module to store the generated XML document.