Streamlining the accounts payable function with EDI.
Kaiser Permanente of Southern California is expanding its use of EDI as a way to enhance the efficiency of its procurement effort and reduce administrative costs. Based on the results of surveys of key suppliers, Kaiser executives identified four EDI-based process improvements: 1) using the X12 832 standard to reconcile contracting data, which can eliminate up to 33 percent of mismatches among purchase orders, invoices, and receiving documents; 2) using procurement cards for many purchases, which can eliminate 20 percent of all invoices and related check payments; 3) using the X12 810 standard to obtain electronic invoices from Kaiser's largest suppliers; and 4) implementing the X12 820 standard, which lowers both supplier and claims payment costs.
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Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, USA.
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D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D002140:California; D003625:Data Collection; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics; D008331:Management Information Systems