Wide Area Workflow

Presented By:

Defense Contract Management Agency

December, 2002

What is WAWF?

A system for performing electronic acceptance and invoicing on DoD contracts.

•Direct electronic feed to payment system

•Web, EDI or FTP input

•PKI enabled (password too)

•Provides complete transaction visibility

Wide AreaWorkflow

• Deployment Decision 1 March 2002

• Over 5000 employees trained

• Over 10,000 transactions processed

DCMA Deployment

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Results with WAWF

During our ramp up…

We expectedImproved on-time paymentsReduced interest penaltiesReduced acceptance cycle time

We experienced100% on-time paymentsZero interest90% reduction in acceptance cycle time

Navy and Air Force

experiencing similar results

Distribute/Process

10 Days

DFAS Processing

27 Days

Misrouted Documents

15 Minutes

Distribute/Process

20 hours

DFAS Processing*

23 Days

Acceptance to Payment Cycle Time

Using WAWF

The Impact of WAWF

Misrouted Documents

23 Days

* 23 Day Minimum due to Cash Management

Paper Process

Technology Refresh•Eliminates Pure Edge Viewer•Browser Independence•Enables Wireless Web

Additional Payment Types•Cost Vouchers•Financing Payments•Construction Payments•Fast Pay

Gets rid of any client software

Enables retirement of

WInS

In production early 03

Version 3.0