A company using EDI made it a practice to track the functional acknowledgements from trading partners and to issue warning messages if acknowledgements did not occur within a reasonable length of time. What risk was the company attempting to address by this practice?
a. Transaction that have not originated from a legitimate trading partner may be inserted into the EDI network.
b. Transmission of EDI transactions to trading partners may sometimes fail.
c. There may be disagreement between the parties as to whether the EDI transactions form a legal contract.
d. EDI data may not be accurately and completely processed by the EDI software.
Answer: b.