title: Streamlining the accounts payable function with EDI.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Huntley
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shride
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: McLure
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Moynihan
mesh_terms: 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