Common use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI Clause in Contracts

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI. At the request of AT&T, the Parties shall exchange Orders, payments, acknowledgements, invoices, remittance notices, and other records (“Data”) electronically, in place of tangible documents. In such case, the parties will mutually agree how they shall exchange Data whether by direct electronic or computer systems communication between AT&T and Supplier, or indirectly through third party service providers with which either Party may contract or a single AT&T-designated third party service provider with which each Party shall contract independently (“Provider”), to translate, forward and/or store such Data. If the Parties exchange Data directly, they agree to exchange it in accordance with the Telecommunications Industry Forum EDI Guidelines for use of American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Committee X12 transaction sets or a mutually agreeable proprietary format or another standard such as Extensible Markup Language (XML).