An EDI Strategy for Defense Procurement
Abstract
The Department of Defense concluded in a 1990 Defense Management Review Decision that it could realize substantial cost savings by replacing a variety of commonly used business documents, such as purchase orders, request for quotations, discrepancy reports, and bills of lading, with their electronic equivalents. It further concluded that the procurement function, including contract administration and payment, would be the source of most of those savings. In 1993, the National Performance Review - which called for, among other actions, improving the Federal government's procurement practices through expanded use of electronic commerce techniques, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) - established a need for the DoD to reenergize its efforts to eliminate burdensome and costly procurement paperwork. More recently, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform's Electronic Commerce in Contracting Process Action Team recommended rapid implementation of electronic commerce capability so the majority of DoD procurement actions are conducted through EDI. This strategy constitutes one step in focusing that effort.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA283094
Entities
People
- Daniel J. Drake
Organizations
- LMI