Introduction U NITED N ATIONS C ENTRE F OR T RADE F ACILITATION A ND E LECTRONIC B USINESS Under the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN/CEFACT

Bureau Slide2, MD + MP United Nations Charter (1945) to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; and to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights.

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide3, MD + MP United Nations six sub groups the General Assembly the Security Council the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) the Trusteeship Council the International Court of Justice the Secretariat

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide4, MD + MP UN/ Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business “UN/CEFACT supports activities dedicated to improving the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively.” UN/ECOSOC UN/ECE UN/CEFACT UN

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide5, MD + MP UN/CEFACT Mission: Trade Facilitation and eBusiness. To improve the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively. Contribute to the growth of global commerce Focus The worldwide facilitation of national AND international transactions, through the simplification and harmonization of procedures and information flows.

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide6, MD + MP Why do we need UN/CEFACT? Impact  Developing nations excluded from benefits of global trade.  The gap between the rich and poor continues to grow.  Social impact of trade in equality affects the entire population.  Economic discrimination hurts many, major social issues. We can change it Action  Analyze, understand key elements of global business  Develop methods and processes including technologies.  Work with other standards development organizations (SDO’s)  Ensure we have one “FREE and OPEN” set of standards to use.  Encourage technology companies to behave responsibly.  Bridge the gap between paper and electronic commerce.  Educate and build capacity for fair global trade. What we must do. Problem  Cultural differences, trade regulations, sanctions.  Technology barriers to trade.  Need to balance global trade with global security.  Not all nations have basic infrastructures.  Models, technologies constantly changing. Where we are.

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide7, MD + MP UN/CEFACT Extensive Portfolio –UMM (UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology) and related work (Business Process) –CC and related –Architecture (mapping) –Several Project Teams Multiple relationships and dependencies between vision, strategy and work projects.

UN/CEFACT Structure and Permanent Groups

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide9, MD + MP UN/CEFACT Structure STRATEGY VISION TACTICAL

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide10, MD + MP Techniques and Methodologies Group (TMG) Work on UMM, Business Process, Core Components and Architecture. Developing core eBusiness framework Chairs: Gunther Stuhec, Christian Huemer, Anders Tell

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide11, MD + MP ATG – Applied Technologies Group Mandate: The purpose of the ATG is to create and maintain the United Nations trade, business and administration document structures that are deployed by a specific technology or standard, such as UN/EDIFACT, UN Layout Key, UN e-docs or XML. Chair: Anders Graangard

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide12, MD + MP ATG Terms of Reference Key Deliverables (excerpt): Specific syntax schemas for –Message structures and reusable components –Business Process Specifications Transformation rules for producing specific syntax based solutions UML profile for modelling specific syntax based solutions

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide13, MD + MP International Trade and Business Processes Group (TBG) The purpose of the TBG is to be responsible for the simplification of international trade procedures, business and governmental process analysis, and best practices, using the UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology, where appropriate, to support the development of trade facilitation & e-Business solutions. (TRADE/CEFACT/2004/11/Add.4) Chair : Jean-Luc Champion Vice-Chair : Yong-Jae Kim

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide14, MD + MP Ensure the release of quality technical specifications for e- business. Management of the UN/CEFACT information repositories and libraries for electronic business; Technical conformance and the registration of the UN/CEFACT business requirements specifications; Normalization and maintenance of the base components (building blocks for the development of standards for implementation); Technical conformity and registration of syntax specific information objects and components. Information Content Management Group (ICG)

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide15, MD + MP ICG Key Deliverables Output a series of coherent, consistent, normalised reference libraries comprised of: Business requirements Information objects Code lists and more The audit and release of syntax specific information objects and syntax specific information components that satisfy business requirements. Processes & procedures for maintenance of libraries; Quality assurance of library contents; UN/ECE and UN Recommendations Chair: Mike Conroy

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide16, MD + MP Legal Group All legal aspects. Working Group composed of individuals knowledgeable in law and technology. UN/CEFACT Intellectual property policy.

UN/CEFACT Work

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide18, MD + MP … UN/CEFACT Roadmap

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide19, MD + MP UN/CEFACT Technology Agnostic Approach

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide20, MD + MP UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM) Design time technology. Captures the lexicon of an organization and all aspects of their business (policy, intent etc.). Technology agnostic - reusable over generations of implemented technology. Main artifacts: –Common Business Process Catalog –Core Component Library (and other business libraries) Methodology to guide modelers to understand their goals. Derived set of artifacts can be mapped to and from UML, XML, EDI or other formats.

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide21, MD + MP Additional notes on UMM It is for Process Modeler's and Designers – not necessary that everybody learn about it. Based on the Open EDI reference model. UMM Meta model is simple, extensible and interoperable.

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide22, MD + MP UN/CEFACT Core Components “When solving a problem, you must not use the same thinking as you did when you created the problem” A. Einstein. One single standard for business “transactions” for the entire world will never work! Technology to capture, preserve and reconcile disparate data taxonomies. Developers completed advanced proof of concept on 2003 (Government of Canada).

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide23, MD + MP Core Components are building blocks of metadata. Each Core Component captures and declares details about a real world business concept (example – “date”) Designed to be re-used globally. Design time artefacts. Could aid in building XML schemas, UNeDocs code lists etc. May be specialized for use within a certain context (example – “date” becomes “OrderDate”) NOTE: “Core Component” is used herein to cover all CC terms including ACC, BCC, ABIE, BBIE What are Core Components

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide24, MD + MP Core Component concepts BIE

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide25, MD + MP Core Components build Business Messages at Design Time Name Address Phone #Company Phone # Address NameParty Party ID Invoice PO #Line ItemCost CONTEXT DateOrder.Date Term: Business Information Entity (BIE)

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide26, MD + MP Business process The choreography of activities and business logic amongst multiple actors. State Management. Work inherits from UMM models. Captures business logic at runtime. Works with CCTS. Project within TMG.

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide27, MD + MP UN eDocs United Nations Electronic Documents. Why - The strain that paper is putting on the international supply chain becomes greater every day: –the movement of goods is accelerating –modem containerized traffic “outruns” accompanying documents –Must balance needs of secure supply chains with trade facilitation –Newer technologies will automate supply chains and challenge paper and electronic documents and procedures. UN eDocs solve these problems

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide28, MD + MP UN Layout Key Intended specifically as basis for designing aligned series of documents/forms. Based on the “box design” principle. Defines a series of data elements and form objects – basis for set of docs. Gives documents consistent look and feel worldwide.

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide29, MD + MP UN/Layout Key

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide30, MD + MP UN Layout Key – Box Type Data Field Example

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide31, MD + MP UN Layout Key – Column Type Data Field Example

UN/CEFACT Bureau Slide32, MD + MP Questions Team Leaders to Identify themselves. Thank you!

UN/ CEFACT S IMPLE, T RANSPARENT AND E FFECTIVE P ROCESSES FOR G LOBAL B USINESS.