Paying Commercial Express Shipments at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service-Indianapolis Center.

Abstract

The Air Force and the small parcel industry recently developed improvements in processing small parcel express shipments. The Air Force wants to use electronic data interchange (EDI) and centralize the payment function for the transportation bills of these shipments. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service Indianapolis Center (DFAS-IN) tasked LMI to identify issues that need to be resolved and to develop an operating concept for paying those bills. We evaluated three DFAS-IN systems that could accommodate express commercial bill of lading (CBL) payments. We recommend DFAS-IN use the Corps of Engineers Financial Management System (CEFMS). It will soon have EDI and electronic funds transfer capabilities. Most importantly, CEFMS requires only one modification. In addition, a DoD EDI implementation convention must be developed to process express CBL payments. We recommend using the American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee X12 858 shipment information transaction set.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA325465

Entities

People

  • W. M. Bridges

Organizations

  • LMI

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Automation
  • Business Administration
  • Control Systems
  • Customer Services
  • Department Of Defense
  • Finance
  • Financial Management
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Management Information Systems
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Transportation
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics