International Trade and Business Processes Group

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International Trade and Business Processes Group

• Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG20Home/tbg_ho
  me.htm
• Chair Jean-Luc Champion
• Vice-Chair Pat Toufar

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TBGs Mandate

• 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
  Modeling Methodology, where appropriate, to
  support the development of trade facilitation
  e-Business standards.

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TBG Summary

• Typical Forum attendance - 150 experts within 16
  Working Groups
• Consistent, continuing participation however is
  less than 50
• Many participants are sponsored by companies,
  trade associations and national governments but
  in all cases are expected to contribute as
  individual subject matter experts
• Since the last UN/CEFACT Plenary, International
  Trade and Business Processes Groups met during
  the 9th and 10th UN/CEFACT Forums
• Also to progress work forward, TBG Work Groups
  conducted numerous face to face interim meetings
  and more than 100 internet conferences and
  conference calls
• UN/CEFACT Forums facilitate collaborative
  meetings with Permanent Groups and Cross domain
  meetings with TBG Groups

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TBG Working Groups

• TBG Working Groups can be categorized into three
  general areas
• Buy - Ship Pay
• Independent Domain
• Cross Domain

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Buy Ship - Pay

• Working Groups
• Develop the core work contributing to the
  deliverables of Trade Facilitation
• Business Process Models cover Procurement through
  Payment
• Contribute to the Core Components Libraries
• From these libraries UN/CEFACT builds syntax
  neutral e-Business standards
• Deliverables developed for UN/CEFACT Registry

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Independant Domains

• Working Groups
• Industry centric work content
• Incorporates reusable Buy-Ship-Pay content
• Contributes domain specific content to the Core
  Components Libraries
• An example of the independent domain business
  area is Travel, Tourism and Leisure

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Cross Domains

• Working Groups
• Harmonisation of Business Process Models from
  Buy-Ship-Pay and Independent Domains
• Harmonisation of syntax neutral Core Components
  from Domain Groups and External Liaisons

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TBG Working Groups

• UN/EDIFACT Data Maintenance Requests reviewed by
  respective TBGs prior to approval and publishing
  in directory libraries
• Most TBG Groups working in concert with industry
  and government organisations develop cross
  industry business process models and identify
  data requirements for their respective domains
• Work Groups collaborate with each other on Cross
  Domain projects
• Enable Trade Facilitation for Governments,
  Industries and Companies by providing consistent
  harmonised e-Business standards

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Buy Ship - Pay

• Working Groups within Buy-Ship-Pay
• TBG1-Supply Chain
• TBG2-UNeDocs and Digital Paper
• TBG3-Transportation
• TBG4-Customs
• TBG5-Finance
• TBG8-Insurance
• TBG15-International Trade Procedures
• TBG18-Agriculture
• TBG19-eGovernment

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Independent Domains

• Working Groups within Independent Domains
• TBG6-Architecture, Engineering and Construction
• TBG9-Travel, Tourism and Leisure
• TBG12-Accounting and Audit
• TBG13-Environmental

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Cross Domains

• Working Groups within Cross Domains
• TBG14-Business Process Analysis
• TBG17-Core Component Harmonisation

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Buy Ship - Pay

• In the following slides are explanations of each
  groups purpose and programme of work
• Working Groups within Buy Ship - Pay
• TBG1-Supply Chain
• TBG2-UNeDocs and Digital Paper
• TBG3-Transportation
• TBG4-Customs
• TBG5-Finance
• TBG8-Insurance
• TBG15-International Trade Facilitation
• TBG18-Agriculture
• TBG19-eGovernment

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TBG1-Supply Chain eProcurement

• Purpose
• Supply chain and e-Procurement covers the
  Purchasing, Material Management and Payment areas
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG1/tbg1.htm
• Programme of Work
• Cross Industry Invoice XML Schema Released
• Material Safety Data Sheet
• Cross Industry Remittance Advice
• Cross Industry Scheduling Process
• Cross Industry Delivery/Despatch and Receipt
  Advice
• Cross Industry Supply and Order Status
• Cross Industry Quotation
• eCatalogue Product Data
• Market Research/Information Process
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG1/tbg1.htm

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Cross Industry Invoice(CII)

• Cross Industry Invoice development deliberately
  broad in design
• Intended as an in all contexts Schema
• Collected and harmonised many industry specific
  business requirements
• Developed the CII including the harmonised
  requirements of two or more industry specific
  data requirements
• Intended to be used as the basis for a sector
  specific context invoice schema
• Automotive Industry contextualization underway
• Can be used in current form as validation
  mechanism for XML instances from any sector
• Customization of the schema is at the discretion
  of the trading partners
• Will be refined based on alignment work underway
  between Supply Chain and UBL
• UN/CEFACT looking at defining format for
  Implementation Guides for schema to help in
  understanding

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TBG2-UNeDocs and Digital Paper

• Purpose
• Develop standards and best practice for the
  migration from paper to paperless trade in
  international supply chains
• Programme of Work
• UNeDocs
• Contribution to Cross Border Reference Data Model
  (CBRDM)
• Clickable Contracts
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG2/tbg2.htm

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TBG3-Transportation and Logistics

• Purpose
• Develop the eBusiness standards for Logistics
  planning and Transport. This covers operational
  movements of goods, administrative and
  governmental requirements and safety and security
  of freight movements.
• Programme of Work
• Collaborate on UNeDocs harmonisation
• Complete business requirements for IFTM
  International Forwarding Multimodal Transport
• Priorities for next business requirements
  Booking, WayBill, Transport Status, Manifest
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG3/tbg3.htm

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TBG4-Customs

• Purpose
• Collaborate with World Customs Organisation (WCO)
  covering Business to Government (B2G), Government
  to Government (G2G) and Business to Business
  (B2B) requirements in cross border transactions.
• Programme of Work
• Cross Border Reference Data Model (CBRDM)
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG4/tbg4.htm

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TBG5-Finance

• Purpose
• Be responsible within the financial services area
  for the simplification of international trade
  procedures, business and governmental process
  analysis, and optimization of all information
  exchange standards.
• Programme of Work
• Cross Domain Collaboration on Invoicing,
  Remittance Advice and Accounting Token
• Continue development with SWIFT and ISO Technical
  Committee 68
• Convergence with the International Standard
  UNIFI, Business Process Catalogue Data (ISO
  20022) and UN/CEFACT methodologies
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG5/tbg5.htm

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TBG6-Architecture

• Architecture, Engineering and Construction
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG6/tbg6.htm

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TBG7 - Statistics

• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG7/tbg7.htm

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TBG8 - Insurance

• Purpose
• Global and cross sector, within the functional
  area of insurance business which includes the
  complete cycle of policy production, placement,
  claims, risk management and accounts between
  customers of insurance companies, the insurance
  companies and their agents and insurance brokers.
  It includes domestic and international
  environments, insurance and reinsurance, single
  company policies and co-insurance.
• Programme of Work
• Contribution of Data Dictionary
• Development of Insurance specific Core Components
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG8/tbg8.htm

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• TBG9 - Travel and Leisurehttp//www.uncefactforu
  m.org/TBG/TBG9/tbg9.htm
• TBG10 Healthcarehttp//www.uncefactforum.org/T
  BG/TBG10/tbg10.htm
• TBG11 - Social Security, Employment and
  Safetyhttp//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG11/tbg1
  1.htm
• TBG12 - Accounting and Auditinghttp//www.uncefa
  ctforum.org/TBG/TBG12/tbg12.htm
• TBG13 Environmenthttp//www.uncefactforum.org/
  TBG/TBG13/tbg13.htm
• TBG14 - Business Process Grouphttp//www.uncefac
  tforum.org/TBG/TBG14/tbg14.htm

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TBG15-International Trade Procedures

• Purpose
• Analyze, simplify, harmonize and align public and
  private sector practices, procedures and
  information flows relating to international trade
  transactions both in goods and related services.
• Programme of Work
• Development of new UNCEFACT Recommendations Nos.
  34 and 35
• Revision of existing UN CEFACT Recommendations
  Nos. 6, 11 and 12
• Exploring use of UNCEFACT standards for coding
  Single Transport Contract
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG15/tbg15.htm

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• TBG16 - Entry Point
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG16/tbg16.htm
• TBG17 - Harmonization
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG17/tbg17.htm

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TBG18-Agriculture

• Purpose
• Develop and maintain Business Process Models, the
  Business Transaction Models, the semantics and
  the contents in a syntax neutral way that fulfil
  the requirements of the Agro Food communities
• Programme of Work
• E-Certification Project
• eDAPLOS project
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG18/tbg18.htm

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TBG19-eGovernment

• Purpose
• Develop and maintain business scenarios and
  business transactions to facilitate the
  electronic delivery of services to citizens,
  businesses and government organizations.
• Programme of Work
• Common eGovernment data model development
• Investigate interest in Greenhouse Gas emission
  and Carbon Trading transactions (GHGCT) processes
  and standards
• eArchiving
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG19/tbg19.htm

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Independent Domains

• Working Groups within Independent Domains
• TBG6-Architecture, Engineering and Construction
• TBG9-Travel, Tourism and Leisure
• TBG12-Accounting and Audit
• TBG13-Environmental

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TBG6-Architecture, Engineering Construction

• Purpose
• Responsible to coordinate and propose new
  developments and maintenance in the area of
  Architecture, Engineering and Construction
  Industry (AEC).
• Programme of Work
• eTendering for Construction Release Candidate
  Schema Released
• // ODP step 6 the implementation verification
  for two different existing systems in Japan was
  successfully completed and another has been
  successfully completed by Korea. Further reviews
  by India, and European Countries (Germany, France
  and United Kingdom) will be made.
• Project Schedule and Cost Performance Management
  to be released with CCL 07A in June.
• Contract Financial Execution Management in
  progress
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG6/tbg6.htm

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TBG9-Travel, Tourism Leisure

• Purpose
• To support and promote international business
  activities related to the exchange of travel
  industry data.
• Programme of Work
• Small Scaled Lodging House data requirements
  included in CCL 06B
• Develop Core Components for documenting the
  business data in travel, tourism and leisure
  business functionality.
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG9/tbg9.htm

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TBG12-Accounting Audit

• Purpose
• The accounting and auditing domains and financial
  reporting. The exchanges are between the
  accountants and certified accountants, the
  auditors, and the enterprises. Internal or
  external financial reporting towards the economic
  partners of the enterprises, the private and
  public collection bodies.
• Programme of Work
• Development of Business Process Models to fulfill
  accounting requirements for
• Accounting Entry
• Accounting Ledger
• Accounting Trial Balance
• Accounting Reporting
• Accounting Chart of Accounts
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG12/tbg12.htm

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TBG13-Environmental

• Purpose
• To support and promote both international and
  regional cooperation activities related to
  environmental data exchange.
• Programme of Work
• To develop a suite of UN/EDIFACT compliant
  messages that will support a completely
  electronic process of notification
• and tracking under national and international
  law associated with ECS import/export, including
  all transactions among the
• competent environmental authorities, shippers
  (or exporters), consignees (or importers), and
  competent customs authorities.
• Continued work on business requirements for Waste
  Movement from original UMM models.
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG13/tbg13.htm

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Cross Domains

• Working Groups within Cross Domains
• TBG14-Business Process Analysis
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG14/tbg14.htm
• TBG17-Core Component Harmonization
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG17/tbg17.htm

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TBG14-Business Process Analysis

• Purpose
• Responsible for defining the International Supply
  Chain model to present the various processes and
  parties involved within the international supply
  chain in a simplified way.
• Programme of Work
• Work with the buy-ship-pay and domain groups to
  harmonise business processes models
• Build a cross domain catalog of common business
  processes within the International Supply Chain
  framework.
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG14/tbg14.htm

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TBG17-Core Component Harmonisation

• Purpose
• Responsible for consistency and harmonisation of
  core components across business domains and
  sectors, contributing to a concise and
  well-defined glossary of business terms, business
  data semantic definitions, and structuring of
  data exchanges.
• Programme of Work
• Harmonisation of TBG and External Liaison
  submissions
• Results of Deliverables are content of Core
  Component Libraries
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/TBG/TBG17/tbg17.htm

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Overview

• An Introduction to Core Components
• Trade and Business Processes Group -
  Harmonization (TBG17)
• Purpose
• Membership
• Submission Acceptance Process
• Harmonization Process
• Publication Syntax Solutions
• Results
• Commitment
• Needs

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Core Components

• Basic building block a data element
• No business context
• Types
• ACC Aggregate Core Component
• Like a segment in X12 or EDIFACT
• BCC Basic Core Component
• Like a data element in X12 or EDIFACT
• ASCC Associate Core Component
• Connects two ACCs
• Like a Party to an Address

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Business Information Entities

• Built from Core Components
• Have Business Context (8 possible)
• Like Trade, Purchasing, Switzerland
• Types
• ABIE Aggregate Business Information Entity
• Built from an ACC
• Qualified with a meaningful term
• BBIE Basic Business Information Entity
• Built from a BCC
• ASBIE Association Business Information Entity
  Connects two ABIEs
• Built from an ASCC

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Data Types

• All BCCs and BBIEs have a data type
• Such as date, code, measure
• BBIEs can have a qualified data type
• Can point to codes lists maintained by UN or ISO
  or an industry group
• Such as certain codes from Recommendation 20
  Units of Measure, or ISO Country Codes

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Naming

• Each dictionary entry name has three parts
• Object Class like Address or Person
• Property Term like Street or Name
• Representation Term like Code or Text
• Based on ISO 11179
• Put together like this
• Object Class. Property. Representation
• Address. Street. Text

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Example
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Example of an ABIE

• ABIE Store_ Address. Details
• BBIE Store_ Address. Street Name. Text
• BBIE Store_ Address. City Name. Text
• BBIE Store_ Address. Country. Identifier
• qDT for Country. Identifier
• List of countries from ISO 3166 where the
  organization has stores
• Context
• Retail

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Purpose

• Core Component Harmonization
• Goal to provide a consistent and harmonized set
  of core components across business domains and
  sectors, contributing to a concise and
  well-defined glossary of business terms, business
  data semantic definitions, and structuring of
  data exchanges.

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Who we are

• Unlike other UN/CEFACT TBGs, TBG17 members can
  represent groups
• Members represent
• Other TBGs
• eg Insurance (TBG8)
• Liaisons
• ECOM
• EDIFICE
• GS1
• JAI
• OAGi
• SWIFT
• UBL
• USG

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Submission Acceptance Process

• Submission from TBG or liaison member
• BRS and/or RSM and/or Class Diagram
• Spreadsheet or file
• Core Components
• Business Information Entities
• Maybe Qualified Data Types
• An editor performs technical QA
• When submission is technically correct, added to
  work program
• The submitter describes the process and reviews
  the diagrams

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Harmonization

• Based on priorities (CEFACT Plenary/FMG/Submission
  Date)
• TBG17 reviews submitted Core Components
• Across submissions when similar business meaning
• Review each CC for completeness, good definition
  and name
• May make changes, with agreement from submitter
• If any changes made
• Return submission
• Submitter (or team) updates BIEs based on TBG17
  changes
• BIEs and qDTs harmonized by TBG17

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Publication andSyntax Solutions

• When whole submission is harmonized and approved
• TBG17 sends to ICG
• For audit
• For inclusion in next UN/CEFACT Core Component
  Library
• If the submitter requests a UN/CEFACT syntax
  solution, the TBG Project Manager sends the
  appropriate documents to ATG1 and/or ATG2 for
  message development.

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Results

• Published in CCL 06B
• eTendering
• Cross Industry Invoice
• Small Scale Lodging House
• Ready to send for CCL 07A
• Project Scheduling and Cost Performance
  Management
• Harmonized for CCL 07B
• Product Registration
• Material Safety Date Sheet
• Cross Border Transport (in process)

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Commitment

• Harmonization Meetings and Calls
• In one year (13 December 2005 to 5 December 2006)
• 37 three-hour virtual meetings
• 4 five-day face-to-face meetings
• Not included
• Submission specific conference calls
• Library Development
• Travel

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CC Harmonization Needs

• Current Members
• More time allocated by management
• Ability to attend all face-to-face meetings
• Additional Resources
• Expertise in
• Documentation
• Specific Domains
• Core Components

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• Resources skill set
• Subject matter experts
• Domain
• Modelling
• Technical developers
• Project Management skills
• Funding
• Tools
• Registry development