If you are going to install the EDI process for all kinds of exchange of documents and information that you need to carry out with clients and your business associates then you will also have to make sure that at least some of your business associates and some your partners also have the EDI system installed as their process of information exchange. You can of course not carry out this exchange of information with your partner if they do not have this system installed as well. However using the EDI process for all transactions and exchanges means that you will be saving up on a lot of time and you will also be saving money and space and storage for information. Even the reliability of the process and the transactions that are carried out are going to increase with this kind of a process being used by companies.