12th UN/CEFACT Plenary UN/CEFACT Forum Report Forum Management Group Chair: Dick Raman Vice-Chair: Sue Probert

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Agenda Status update Making the Forum effective Forum Lyon Forum Vancouver Reports from the Permanent Groups Wrap-Up 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Status Update Core Components approach is fast gaining momentum UN/CEFACT is increasingly regarded as the place where semantic harmonization can take place at the highest level Industry groups now coming forward and declaring support for UN/CEFACT and for migration/alignment of their standards with the CC approach UN/CEFACT needs the resources and buy-in of these external organizations 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Momentum We have a unique opportunity to prove our value to the world at large With stronger support from UNECE Provided we demonstrate our value With stronger support from the market Provided we focus on where we are in agreement Not on where we differ. 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Interoperability UN/CEFACT is uniquely positioned to solve Interoperability By providing a global semantic Framework Getting the buy-in of the market The Forum should now Unite and Focus on the key priorities Speed up stable deliverables Welcome other SDOs to work with us 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Collaboration Collaboration with SDOs We expect these parties to come into the Forum and work with us We can recognize other organizations Provided they adopt our semantics The Forum will work hard to produce deliverables By streamlining our process 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Cooperation with OASIS 2006 Coordination and Project Alignment UBL and UN/CEFACT collaboration plan build a common set of eBusiness document standards work with all relevant Forum Groups - started common core components and business processes future UN/CEFACT deliverables constitute the upgrade path for UBL Member countries are committing resources to completing this work in UN/CEFACT Business Process Specifications collaborative effort on BPSS v.3 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Making the Forum more Effective Put Trade Facilitation at the top Provide Forum focus Create visibility to Bureau/UNECE Enhance the core Forum activities Project Management Harmonization Promotion & Awareness Registry/Repository/Web Site Liaison with SDOs at the working level Supported by dedicated resources 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Making the Forum more Effective Optimize TBG Domains Increase management support Strengthen links with external organizations Refine cross-domain project process Pre-harmonization procedures Widen ATG syntax implementations EDI, XML, webServices, Paper Define a process for external standards migrating to CC 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

7th UN/CEFACT FORUM September 26-30 Lyon 2005 Hosted by: EDIFrance Sponsors: September 26-30 Lyon 2005

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Highlights 7th UN/CEFACT Forum 220 attendees Organization Presented many challenges Welcome Reception – Mayor of Lyon Lunch & Learns UNeDocs (Sitpro & IATA), GS1, XBRL, UMM (UoV) 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Highlights A major software developer presented how the new UN/CEFACT standards are at the core of their new generation of software Legal Group reconvened Legal Aspects of the PG’s work Agriculture group started eGovernment group founded First Core Components Library produced 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Francois Vuilleumeir, ISO/TC 154 Chair Duane Nickull, Individual 8th UN/CEFACT FORUM March 12-17 2006 Vancouver, Canada Hosts Francois Vuilleumeir, ISO/TC 154 Chair Duane Nickull, Individual

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report 8th UN/CEFACT Forum The organizers did a tremendous job! Thanks to the Sponsors! Thanks to the Volunteers! Welcome to over 230 delegates! Introduction by Canadian government WCO collaboration 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Highlights Activities during the week Extended our Core Components Library A lot of interest in TBG18 (Agriculture) Actual start of TBG19 (eGovernment) The Legal Group met the PGs Much more… Lunch & Learns X12, CIDX, UBL, OAG, … 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Highlights Registry implementation verification team established XML Schemas to be delivered in Q3 for: Cross-Industry Invoice, e-Tendering UN/CEFACT Outputs on a semi-annual cycle MRI needs more permanent status 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Applied Technologies Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Anders Grangård Vice-Chair: Mark Crawford

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Work Programme Standard Business Document Header Representation of CCTS in XML Harmonisation of representation terms TAC for XML Deliverables UML to UN/EDIFACT Transformation Rules UML to XML Design Rules Representation of BPSS in XML XML Naming and Design Rules CPP-CPA Implementers Guide 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Item for Plenary Approval UN/CEFACT XML NDR, Naming and Design Rules, have successfully gone through the ODP process and reached full consensus from the UN/CEFACT forum ATG hence request the UN/CEFACT Plenary to approve this specification as a UN/CEFACT Technical Specification. 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Items for Plenary Noting Hundred forty-five (145) Data Maintenance requests were processed for the D.05B UN/EDIFACT Directory Hundred twelve (112) Data Maintenance requests were processed for the D.06A UN/EDIFACT Directory 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Other Items Inter-forum meetings held June 2005 - Kongsberg, Norway January 2006 – Wollongong, Australia Future Meetings Summer 2006 – Germany October 2006 – New Delhi, India 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Information Content Management Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Mike Conroy Vice-Chair: David Dobbing

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Principal Highlights Approved the RSM (Requirements Specifications Mapping) Finalised the UN/CEFACT Registry Specification for ODP release Initialised UN/CEFACT Registry Proof-of-Concept: Canada, Government of Ontario Chinese Taipei, National Taiwan Normal University France, France Télécom Korea, Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Principal Highlights Revised and approved code list updates to UNECE Recommendations: Rec. 20 - Units of Measure used in International Trade Rec. 21 - Types of Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials Rec. 23 - Freight Cost Code Advanced Code List Migration Project for the regular publication of a single XML based version of all UN/CEFACT maintained code lists Audited the first release of the Core Components Library 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Work in progress Finalise UN/CEFACT Registry development Finalise Code List Migration Project Ongoing audit of UN/CEFACT deliverables Ongoing maintenance of UNECE Recommendations related to codes 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Items for Plenary Noting UNECE Recommendation 16 (Codes for Trade and Transport Locations - UN/LOCODE ) - UN/LOCODE 2005-2 UNECE Recommendation 20 (Units of Measure used in International Trade) - Rev. 4 UNECE Recommendation 21 (Codes for Types of Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials) - Rev. 5 UNECE Recommendation 23 (Freight Cost Code) - Rev. 2 UN/EDIFACT DIRECTORY Releases D05A D05B 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Usva Vice-Chair: Bart Schermer Legal Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Usva Vice-Chair: Bart Schermer

International Trade and Business Processes Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Jean-Luc Champion Vice-Chair: Yong-Jae Kim

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12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Some thoughts… Mind is like a parachute… It works better when it’s open! 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report TBG Business Requirements Specification Cross industry ordering, Cross industry e-catalogue, Steel industry ordering IFTM International Forwarding Transport Project Schedule and Cost Performance Management, Contract Financial Execution Management Accounting Entry Waste Tracking DAPLOS, Animal Passport Requirements Specification Mapping Cross industry invoice, Cross industry remittance advice e-Tendering 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report TBG Plan for the harmonisation with and integration of UBL Trade and Transport messages Starting with Invoice and Remittance advice Joint Transport and Environment effort on pre-harmonization for Dangerous Goods Review of UNECE Recommendations 6, 11 & 12 E-Gov future projects: legal archiving, exchanges between Tax & Social Security, Phytosanitary certificates, GSRM. 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report TBG Mapping of two documents from Senegal and the E-Cert document to UNeDocs Review of WCO DM 2.0 by Transport, Customs, e-Gov Liaison between Finance & UNIFI Liaison between Accounting & XBLR Production of the first official CCL First complete submissions containing BIE´s and messages (Cross Industry Invoice and e-Tendering) 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Techniques & Methodologies Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Gunther Stuhec Vice-Chair: Christian Huemer,Anders Tell

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report General TMG made great strides Meetings: Walldorf, Germany Lyon, France Sydney, Australia The next meeting will be in 19 – 23 June 2006 at SWIFT, Brussels, Belgium 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Inter-Organization Collaboration Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS) The next version of OASIS’s BPSS standard, v2.0.3, will be submitted to ISO TC 154 for approval as ISO/DTS 15000-6. UN/CEFACT and OASIS will announce that BPSS 3.0 will be a joint effort. The TMG recommends that this action be supported by CEFACT Plenary. Constructive communications with OMG and W3C Learned about other’s initiatives Exploring collaboration opportunities Defined gap analysis plans 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Business Process Working Group UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) The 2nd working draft of UMM Base and UMM Foundation Module ready for ODP Step 5 The review period started on 2006-03-17 and ended on 2006-04-30. Began User Guide update process Business Collaboration Specification Schema (BCSS) Launched and made considerable progress in a joint project with ICG and ATG to define a UML profile for UMM and evaluate interoperability among various UML tools. BCSS v1.0 draft specification released to ODP Step 4 Resources-Events-Agents (REA) Project is approved and already started 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Core Component Working Group Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) CCTS V2.2 draft specification released for ODP 4 The review period started on 2006-04-03 and ended on 2006-05-03 Core Component Message Assembly (CCMA) The team has been formed, the project launch, and a series of steady conference calls has produced sixteen pages of comments. Context Methodology Project (CMP) is approved and already started 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Architecture diagram REA Context BPSS 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Thoughts All TMG methodologies are the basis for a successful realization of UN/CEFACT‘s Vision “Simple, Transparent and Effective Processes for Global Commerce“ Feedback is that they are excellent specifications But there is still a lot of work to do 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Thoughts More active participating is the key for solving this issues in that time as you want We believe that an endorsed IPR Policy will start the ball rolling, especially for more awareness, more resources, more active participation, and support by major companies 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

Wrap-Up Dick Raman

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report Next Forums New Delhi (India) – 2-6 October 2006 Offered by the Indian Government Open – March 2007 Request for proposals Preferably in Africa/Arabia/Latin-America We need guarantee Local sponsors Europe – September 2007 USA – March 2008 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report See you in New Delhi It is important that the experts come We have elections for all positions in the FMG Legal Group Chair Standards Liaison Rapporteur The team would like to continue Everyone is prepared to give it two more years to finish the job Proposal to the Plenary to continue with 2 additional members from TBG in the FMG 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

UN/CEFACT Forum Objectives Increasing the effectiveness of the UN/CEFACT Forum Increasing the quality and speeding up the production of UN/CEFACT deliverables Strengthening relations with other standards- and vertical organizations Will contribute more to saving money globally! We need resources to do this… 11/10/2018 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report

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