What is TI doing to address Year 2000 issues with electronic commerce (EDI) ?
TI supports the use of the EDI formats of EDIFACT D98A and ANSI X12 4010 for electronic commerce. Both of these standards are Year 2000 Ready. TI has worked with business partners on other proprietary EDI feeds as appropriate. TI is using a date inferencing method, also known as “windowing,” to interpret year-date information. This is a commonly used technique and enables us to receive year-dates that are less than four-digits within a particular range in the “window” and accurately infer the century. As of June 30, 1999, TI has communicated with its electronic commerce partners, and EDI interfaces have been tested with major customers and suppliers in those cases where format changes were identified. TI believes that its EDI interfaces are Y2K ready.
