CWA 16504:2012

This CWA aims to give small and medium sized enterprises a fast to establish and easy to use alternative to traditional EDI approaches. The hope is that a wider adoption of EDI in Europe will streamline administrative processes in many companies and thus will foster competitiveness of our continent. This workshop agreement is intended as a guideline for the exchange of business documents between companies within a non-hierarchical business network by electronic communication. Since each company has a multitude of business relationships in its network, it is important to keep communication to many partners easy to handle. Especially for small and medium sized enterprises, a multilateral approach will simplify electronic business communication as today the efforts to handle bilateral communication channels are too heavy.