| Start-up Costs | Maintenance and Upgrade | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| equipment | staff | consultants | equipment | staff | consultants | |
| connectivity | ||||||
| pre-implementation activity (e.g. needs, requirements analyses) | ||||||
| process reengineering to take maximum advantage of new technology | ||||||
| training for implementation team, system operators and users | ||||||
| hardware (e.g. computers, local area networks) | ||||||
| translators | ||||||
| maps for individual trading partners | ||||||
| interaction with companies requesting EDI (e.g. questions about their implementation guidelines) | ||||||
| integration into other applications | ||||||
| your effort to implement EDI with your non-EDI trading partners | ||||||