Research Catalog

Title

Electronic data interchange (EDI) : using electronic commerce to enhance defense logistics / Judith E. Payne, Robert H. Anderson.

Author

Payne, Judith E., 1950-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, [1991]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anderson, Robert H. (Robert Helms), 1939-
• Rand Corporation.
• United States. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Production and Logistics)

Description

xxii, 112 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the electronic exchange of formatted business transactions between one organization's computer and another's. This report considers where the Department of Defense (DOD) should focus its limited resources to implement this powerful new capability in ways that will enhance its effectiveness, and discusses how logistics functions must change to take full advantage of EDI. It focuses on the use of EDI for logistics functions that could increase the readiness and sustainability of U.S. defense forces; suggests ways in which statutes and regulations might need to change to accommodate EDI's potential benefits; and offers approaches that DOD might take to develop a software and hardware infrastructure to support EDI.

Alternative Title

• Electronic data interchange.
• Electronic data interchange

Subject

• United States. Defense Logistics Agency > Communication systems
• Electronic data interchange

Note

• "Prepared for the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Production and Logistics)."
• "R-4030-P&L."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.105-112).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833011243

LCCN

^^^91002415^

OCLC

• 23176813
• SCSB-10026342

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library