EDI Opportunities at the Military Sealift Command.

Abstract

The Department of Defense is aggressively implementing electronic data interchange (EDI). The military services, Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Transportation Command and its component commands, and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service have built or modified automated systems to support the electronic exchange of transportation information. In this report, we analyzed EDI opportunities for the Military Sealift Command (MSC), focusing on operations, acquisition and contracting, invoicing and payment, and the intermodal program. In those functional areas, we identified nine potential EDI projects, including ocean cargo invoicing and payment operations, vendor invoicing, acquisition, and tanker operations material inspection and receiving reports. However, only one of those projects is clearly economically justified. We recommend that MSC implement EDI in processing its ocean cargo invoices and payments. Doing so would save MSC more than $1.4 million in direct cost savings and another $1.7 million in reduced interest charges over the next 10 years.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA326490

Entities

People

  • Harold L. Frohman
  • James E. Cotterman

Organizations

  • LMI

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Economic Analysis
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Electronic Mail
  • Finance
  • Materials
  • Operating Systems
  • Transportation
  • United States Transportation Command
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics