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

摘要

The Air Force and the small parcel industry recently developed improvements inprocessing 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). In addition, a DoD EDI implementation convention also 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 (AD-A264 646).