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Show 10 Hilltop Times Feb. 1, 1996 EC from pag 2 more transaction details, becoming result is something very similar to an almost a third party to the negotiation, ANSI transaction set. ANSI, by the way, stands for Ameriapplying rules of trade to the players at the table. What if we want to do even can National Standards Institute and less and have the computer do even X. 1 2 is just the name given to their stanmore? dards on EDI. Every transaction type, In EC, the human still must find, such as request for quote, freight bill of select, review and decide just what to lading, purchase order, electronic funds transfer, and so on has its own number. spend money on. Suppose that as a supply clerk for your unit, you were autho- EDI matches sets of transactions to get rized to buy with a credit card, but that the job done. Yes, humans still make the final deciyou had to include at least 300 quotes and guarantee the government the sions, but as a function of time, cost, in the last two weeks of quality and economy, EDI augments the lowest price commercial buying world effort to really offer a wide? The assignment is chance for humans and Farangee traders to abide getting more complicated than the teller machine or by one of the rules of the new credit card swipe government business at the grocery store. the now famous "more with less." What if you then arWhere does Hill stand ranged direct shipment electronically, paid for the today in the use of ECEDI? Your procureitem electronically and it Defense ment information systems was entered automaticalMegacenter is probably already doing ly into the inventory conboth EC and EDI if you The trol systems? are in the Air Force, research and supports: Army, Navy or a federal tracking of the item reB Air Force Two quired something more department. than just ordinary EC. Ogden, Standard megacenters This depth of electronic Utah, and Columbus, Base Level Ohio commerce required a lanact as the equivar Computing lent of the U.S. Postal guage for (SBLC) Service and together they negotiations exroute more than a billion and transaction B Defense characters of business changes in our behalf. Logistics This language is a tool transactions each month. called Electric Data InterAgency By the end of 1996 this volume will grow many Base Supchange or EDI. EDI is the special subtimes over. port (BOSS) A massive infrastrucset of EC where comB Standard ture is in the throes of beputers act more like Distribution agents for us and less like ing installed by the tools we wield to make Defense Information SysSystem tasks easier. EDI is a for-- , tems Agency across the (DSS) mal language or protocol continental United States Air Force B for negotiating between local and your computer and business logistics megacenter. DISA has been asked by the Secreprocesses. When people support talk to people, we have the tary of Defense to provide richness of human lan continuous support to all service areas on a comguage to describe our needs, our goals, our process and terms. mon communications and computer inWhen computers talk to other comfrastructure with standard, easily puters and negotiate in our behalf, they repeatable ways of working with indususe a language called ANSI X.12. When try. They have targeted extending this this is done consistently as a recurring support into theaters of operation with part of a business process, it becomes a program called Global Combat Supply EDI. System or GCSS. What makes EDI different from EC? Also, this is the target year to begin EDI is doing EC using a form of processing transactions in medical, techno-babbl- e computer-to-computtransportation and other communities. called ANSI X.12. Today at the Megacenter, as a result of ANSI X.12 is for the lan- EDI, data is whipping through the comguage computers use to describe among puter room as digital dots and dashes themselves the thousands of business supporting the Bosnia peace keeping transactions that can take place between mission. Listen carefully, and with the support organizations and people. The language is similar in function to of DISA's GCSS, you may hear the field the set of standard forms available in supply clerk say in a grand Irish brogue "Perform Fill," the package used by to his hand 986 MegaPen-tiusome of us to avoid typewriters. In the Pro XL 300 mhz, "Computer, find computer's case, however, there is no me the best price on lithium batteries for need for all the pretties. this thing and beam them direct ship to The lines, boxes, text and descriptions the 75th, 388th or 419th deployed." on an electronic form are there for the hu And what is even more amazing, it man's visual benefit. Take these away, might actually happen before you leave leaving all of the data entered, and the your unit! m CHRIS FARLEY DAVID SPADE J Ogden g computer-to-compute- geek-spea- here's one T FltTURES PAeAMQUIT PIUtlTS CHRIST11E EBERSOLE AID TIU UATHESQI in L0R1E HICKAEIS PilGDlltllOl A GARY rMau SPHEERIS HIH JILL OHANNESOI BUSET "KPEIERJ1IB! every family. A PENELOPE RQBERT E. 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