Stockholm Seminar

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Stockholm Seminar
UN/CEFACT Strategy and Work Programme Mark
Palmer 26 September 2007
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Mission
Simple, Transparent and Effective Processes for
Global Business.

• Analyze and understand the key elements of
  international processes, procedures and
  transactions and working for the elimination of
  constraints
• Develop methods to facilitate processes,
  procedures and transactions, including the
  relevant use of information technologies
• Promote both the use of these methods, and
  associated best practices, through channels such
  as government, industry and service associations
• Coordinate its work with other international
  organizations
• Secure coherence in the development of standards

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Holistic approach to trade facilitation
Public sector requirements Application of trade
regulations, Protection of society, Collection
of fiscal revenue

SELLER
Ship
Buy
Pay
BUYER
Supply-chain management
Private sector requirements Predictable, simple
and transparent laws and procedures Facilitation
- let low risk cargo flow freely
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Buy-Ship-Pay
Source The UN/CEFACT International Supply Chain
Reference Model
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Trade Facilitation Strategy

• Holistic approach to the International Trade
  Transaction Process
• Identification and elimination of barriers to
  trade
• Trade Security - address the shift in focus from
  the threat to trade, to the threat from trade
• Promote the use of UN/CEFACT instruments to
  address trade facilitation issues in the WTO
• Develop Capacity Building Programmes on trade
  facilitation implementation

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eBusiness Strategy

• Cross-sectoral analysis (to promote
  interoperability supply chain synchronicity)
• Business process and information modelling (to
  capture user requirements, independent of any
  specific technology)
• New technologies as they emerge (e.g., eXtensible
  Markup language (XML), webServices,)
• International standards for enabling e-business
  systems interoperability

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Overview
External Affairs
Strategy
Marketing
Cooperation/ coordination Liaison Feedback Re-use
Non-duplication
Collaborative work plan to enable e-Business and
Trade Facilitation
Promotion of deliverables Monitoring
implementation, collecting feedback and
requirements. Capacity building/technical
presentation
eBusiness
Cooperation/ coordination Liaison Feedback Re-use
Non-duplication
Trade Facilitation
How to facilitate global trade
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Structure
UN/CEFACT Plenary
Plenary Chair ___________________ Bureau
UNECESecretariat
FMG ForumManagement Group
UN/CEFACT Forum
International Trade and Business Processes Group
Applied Technology Group
Information Content Management Group
Techniques and Methodologies Group
Legal Group
Domains Accounting Audit - Agriculture
- Architecture, Engineering Construction -
Business Process Analysis - Customs -
eGovernment - Electronic Trade
Documents - Environmental Management -
Finance - Harmonization - Health Care -
Insurance - International Trade
Procedures - Social Services - Statistics
Collection and Reporting - Supply Chain -
Transport - Travel, Tourism and
Leisure
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Forum Structure
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Work Products

• Business Process Models
• Business Requirements Specification
• Requirements Specification Mapping
• Core Components
• Schema Generation

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Workflow

• Creation of Project Plan
• Creation of Business Requirements Specification
  (BRS)
• Creation of Business Models
• Using
• Supply Chain Reference Model
• Enumeration lists
• Code Lists
• Context Values
• Harmonization of Business Processes
• Harmonization of Core Components
• Creation of Requirements Specification Mapping
  (RSM)
• Creation of Production Schemas
• Publication
• Described in the Open Development Process (ODP)

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Current Process
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The Process with a Registry
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Convergence
Source www.iso20022.org
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Permanent Groups

• Applied Technology Group (ATG) create document
  structures deployed by specific technology, e.g.,
  UN/EDIFACT, XML
• Information Content Management Group (ICG)
  ensure the release of quality technical
  specifications management of UN/CEFACT
  information repositories and libraries
• Legal Group legal aspects of projects and
  deliverables
• Techniques and Methodologies Group (TMG) methods
  and e-Business architecture
• International Trade and Business Processes Group
  (TBG) deliver simplified international trade
  procedures, business and governmental process
  analyses and e-Business solutions

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TBG
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http//www.UNCEFACT.org