So Moore and its competitors are gearing up for their own electronic futures. They're beginning to sell electronic-forms software, and after decades of designing forms for customers, they figure that they understand how corporations use information. So they want to become information consultants. Unfortunately, that would mean competing head-on with such industry giants as Electronic Data Systems, IBM, and Andersen Consulting. Clearly, computers aren't about to push paper completely out of the office overnight.
Many hurdles remain.
No such savings ever occurred, though, because carmakers couldn't agree on how to format EDI messages. Even today, GM and Ford Motor Co. haven't agreed on internal EDI plans. And both, you can be sure, still have more paper than they would like. But soon, they say, they'll have less. This page maintained by Prof. Wayne Fields.