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Huntsville, Ala.
For years, Avex Electronics, Inc. depended on a costly value-added network (VAN) to share electronic data interchange messages with trading partners. Now the manufacturer is saving its money and migrating its EDI traffic to the Internet.
VANs charge by the size of each EDI transaction, an expensive proposition, said Mike Gordon, manager of the electronic commerce group at Avex. So about three months ago, the company began using the Internet, with a flat monthly charge, to transmit and receive EDI business transactions.
For the time being, Avex is still running dual-mode EDI using both a VAN and the Internet...