18th UN/CEFACT Forum Closing Plenary 14.00 hrs

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18th UN/CEFACT ForumClosing Plenary14.00 hrs
23 September 2011 Geneva International Conference
Centre Geneva, Switzerland
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Overview

• Bureau
• Programme Development Areas
• Trade and Transport Facilitation
• Supply Chain
• Regulatory
• Sectoral
• Methodology and Technology
• Bureau Programme Support
• Closing Remarks

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Bureau

• Some key topics/activities
• Focus on developments in PDAs and BPS
• Open Bureau sessions Monday-Thursday
  17.00-17.30 hrs
• Plenary topics
• Programme of Work
• Agenda, documents, recommendations and standards
• Consultations
• Website, transparency and communication
• Liaison and strategic cooperation in standards
  
• UNECE Mobile Business flier to be published
• Calendar of events
• Next Forums
• India - March/April 2012
• Vienna September 2012

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Trade and Transport Facilitation

• Domains
• International Trade Procedures
• Customs
• Transport

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International Trade Procedures

• Review and update of work programme
• Rec 36 Single Window Interoperability first
  draft being developed
• Rec on Consultation Models first draft being
  developed with
• support of Business Process Analysis domain
• UN/REC 1 ITP Nominee to reengage with ISO to
  work
• jointly on the aligned standard Layout key
• Rec 14 further discussions on possible
  update-project
• Proposal for a new project to prepare a
  recommendation
• supporting the work on Environmental
  (Hazardous)
• Material Coding (supporting the work of Ms
  Pilgrim)
• Strategic Discussion on the future development
• of Single Window recommendations
• Strategic Discussion on mBusiness solutions for
  Trade Facilitation

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Customs

• Participated in the EDIFACT technical assessment
• Processed DMRs for GOVCBR updated GOVCBR
  expected in D11B
• Participated in the project Single Window
  interoperability
• Updated the group on the initiative on Globally
  Networked Customs
• Updated the PDA on developments on IMO FAL
  Committee
• The finalization of the FAL compendium,
• Treatment of stowaways, privately Contracted
  Armed Security Personnel,
• Finalization of the Maritime Single Window
  Guidelines,
• Development of guidelines for electronic access
  to certificates on board vessels.
• Participated in the UNECE information session on
  a standard for the electronic CIM/SMGS
  Consignment Note for Railways
• Updates on development of a standard on advance
  cargo reporting
• Development of a new electronic message not
  necessary
• WCO will convey the difficulties faced by
  carriers
• Support for common data requirements and
  procedures for advance cargo reporting by
  countries
• Held discussions with UNCTAD on areas of mutual
  interest in Trade Facilitation

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Transport

• Status of and further actions for the projects in
  the Transport Domain (status report, transport
  instruction, waybill, dangerous goods).
• Action plan to progress the Cargo Tracing and
  Tracking project
• The Multi Modal Transport structure as a subset
  of the Core Components for use in the Transport
  and Logistics domain
• Assessment of DMRs from the transport domain
• Harmonization work between TDED and EDED
  Directories for transport items
• Maintenance of the EDIFACT Directories and
  UN/Recommendations
• Report on cooperation with developments in the
  Transport domain (IATA, UIC, FIATA, IMO, SMDG,
  PROTECT, etc.)
• Joint meeting with Customs / WCO on the action
  plan regarding the Advance Cargo Declaration
  harmonization issue Other items IMO FAL Forms
• Report on cooperation with ISO committees
  relevant for the Transport domain, namely ISO
  TC204 ( ITS - Intelligent Transport Systems) and
  ISO TC8 (Maritime)
• Confirmation of the Transport interim meeting in
  Valencia on 14-18 November
• September 20th Meeting with International
  Transport Organizations at IATA to assess impact
  of the CEFACT reorganization on the
  Transport/Logistics sector
• September 21th Meeting with UNECE
  Trade-Transport Division and UIC to discuss
  regulatory aspects and data harmonization of the
  Rail Consignment Note (CIM) with the CEFACT
  standards.

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18th UN/CEFACT FORUM

• Supply Chain PDA
• Achievements
• of the Week
• Geneva International Conference Centre
• Geneva, Switzerland 23 September 2011

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Agenda
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• Changes in Supply Chain PDA Domains
• Supply Chain PDA Scope
• Projects within Supply Chain PDA Scope -
  Existing New
• Projects outside Supply Chain PDA Scope
• Future Supply Chain PDA Strategy

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PROGRAMME OF WORK
PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT AREA
Domains
Vice Chairs Mike Doran Tim McGrath
Supply Chain

• Supply Chain Management
• Procurement
• Finance/Payments
• Accounting/Audit
• Government

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CURRENT DOMAINS COORDINATORS
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• Supply Chain Management Karina Duvinger Edmund
  Gray
• Procurement Bernard Longhi
• Finance Payments Liliana Fratini Passi
• Government Ray Pisani
• Accounting Audit Michel Lesourd Eric Cohen

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Presentations
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• European perspective on eProcurement from the
  PEPPOL BII Point of View - Josteyn Fromyr
• EU Multistakeholder Forum to Facilitate the
  Adoption of eInvoicing - Edmund Gray
• CEN Message User Guidelines MUG 1 - Bernard
  Longhi
• CEN European Core Invoice Implementation Guide -
  Kevin Smith
• Legal Notice Publication Didier Hardy

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Supply Chain PDA Scope
This flow diagram will be discussed with other
PDAs to provide a complete view of CEFACT Scope
of Work
NOTIFY
SOURCE
TENDER
CONTRACT ORDER
DELIVER
BILL
PAY
RETURN
International Supply Chains consist of integrated
and coordinated flows of information, goods
payments
REPORT

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PROJECTS PROJECT LEADERS
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• NOTIFY
• Legal Notification Publication Didier Hardy
• SOURCE
• Cross Industry Catalogue Karina Duvinger
• Price Lists (New)
• TENDER
• eTendering (including eNotices) Kevin Smith
• Cross Industry Quotation Gilles Brandel

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PROJECTS PROJECT LEADERS
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• CONTRACT/ORDER
• Cross Industry Ordering Martin Forsberg
• DELIVER
• Project Schedule Cost Performance Management
  Chris Hassler
• Cross Industry Scheduling Samy Scemama
• Cross Industry Delivery Edmund Gray
• BILL
• Contract Financial Execution Management Michel
  Entat
• Cross Industry Invoice v2.0 2.1 Edmund Gray
• Migration CII to CCTS 3.0 NDR 3.0 Karina
  Duvinger (Coordinator)

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PROJECTS PROJECT LEADERS
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• PAY
• Cross Industry Remittance Advice Mounir
  El-Koury
• Customer Statement (New)
• RETURN
• REPORT
• Market Research Information Helge Simonsen

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PROJECTS PROJECT LEADERS
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• Cross Domain and Other
• Accounting Token Michel Lesourd
• Supply Chain Process Common Requirements Sue
  Probert
• Security for XML Documents Messages (Rec 37)
  Sujeet Bhatt
• Master Measured Data Alignment for the
  European
• Energy Market (Proposal) Kees Sparreboom

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PROJECTS PROJECT LEADERS
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• Finance Payments
• Supply Chain Finance new standardization needs
  to be addressed (eg. guarantees, letters of
  credit, open account, trade counterparties
  screening)
• Cross-Industry Invoice maintainance with respect
  to financial issues / coordination with other PDA
  domains
• Liaison with ISO20022 and global financial
  services (e.g. Common Global Implementation)
• To be followed up after SIBOS event in Toronto

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PROJECTS PROJECT LEADERS
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• Accounting Audit
• Lexical Nomenclature Michel Lesourd
• Accounting Trial Balance Michel Lesourd
• Accounting Bundle Collection Michel Lesourd
• Accounting Entry v.1 v.2 (maintenance) Michel
  Lesourd
• Accounting Ledger Michel Lesourd
• Accounting Chart of Accounts Michel Lesourd
• Accounting Reporting Michel Lesourd
• Accounting Message Michel Lesourd
• Accounting Journal Michel Lesourd

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Future Supply Chain PDA Strategy
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• Publish current project deliverables by end of
  2011
• Improve UN/CEFACTs Publication Process as a
  matter of high priority
• Address private and public sector requirements
• Revisit Gap Analysis recommendations
• Propose new Themes Projects - Business
  Requirements
• Review external Supply Chain initiatives
• Encourage Supply Chain experts to return to
  UN/CEFACT
• Request resources from Plenary delegations,
  and/or other potential sponsors, to support
  projects

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Planning for VirtualMeetings
SUPPLY CHAIN PDA

• Every Second Wednesday at 1600 CET
• Starting on 28 September 2011

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Regulatory

• Domains
• Environmental Management
• Customs
• Government

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EnvironmentalManagement

• Discussions on the work program for the
  Environment Domain.
• Continued work on the GHS, MSDS and REACH
  projects.
• Changes/updates coming to the waste disposal
  project.
• Discussions on developing a Recommendation for
  the Environmental
• work jointly with International Trade
  Procedures Domain.

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Sectoral

• Programme Development Area Sectoral

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Sectoral PDADomain Insurance

• Domain Coordinator
• Andreas Schultz

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Domain Insurance

• The domain insurance is at present a joint
  work between ACORD - USA, and the European
  eBusiness Expert Group for Insurance (eEG7) with
  members from BiPRO - Germany, SIVI The
  Netherlands, Telebib - Belgium, GS4eB Germany.

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Workplan

• Projects are planned for
• Commercial line business (from small commercial
  up to large industrial)
• Private Claims
• Together with the healthcare domain for exchange
  between healthcare professionals, patients and
  health insurance companies.

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Sectoral PDADomain Travel/Tourism

• Domain Coordinator
• Akio Suzuki

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Domain Travel/Tourism

• Achieved this week
• 1)BRS preparation for Small scaled Lodging House
  Reservation Information Process was progressed.
• 2) Attended the CCL property terms review held
  and guided by CCL 3.0 development/maintenance
  team
• 3) Discussion on the new project proposed by a
  Thailand expert was held and will be further
  studied among the experts.

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Work plan

• 1) Small scaled Lodging House Reservation
  Information Process will be finalized (by March
  2012)
• 2) New project proposals will be discussed among
  the experts. And they will be proposed to be in
  time for the next forum when they are agreed upon
  by them.
• 3) Collaboration with such organizations as OTA,
  AFACT, other international or national bodies
  will be well checked and negotiated, if needed,
  by the experts of the group.
• 4) Capacity building activity will be considered
  especially for Asian countries.

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Sectoral PDADomain Agriculture

• Domain Coordinator
• Frans van Diepen

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Agriculture

• Livestock Life Events Recording
• Focus on animal trade issues
• Agricultural observations
• Focus on e-LABs
• exchange of laboratoria observations and
  conclusions on
• soil, animal and plant samples
• New projects expected
• Cross industry invoice
• Extensions to support trade in fresh vegetables,
  fruits and cutflowers
• Farming management and farm operation
  information exchange
• Machine instructions, logging of operations and
  remote sensing on the farm

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Methodology and Technology PDAClosing Plenary
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Bureau Programme Support

• Progress for the week
• Appointment of Domain Coordinator(s) not needed
  at present
• Review the status of all projects
• Review of the existing Programme of Work

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Project Meetings

• Business Document Header
• Core Components Business Document Assembly

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Future Strategy
User View
Internal View
External View
Maintenance and Development procedures
Processes Messages
Collaboration Customizations Extensions
Technical Framework
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Identified Issues

• XML Versioning/Compatibility
• Naming (of ABIEs)
• Naming (of Property terms)
• Extension of XML (data type for extending a
  model/schema)
• Code lists publishing
• Library synchronization
• Impact Analysis on UN/CEFACT Specifications

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Bureau Programme Support (BPS)Closing Plenary
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Bureau Programme Support

• Progress for the week
• Appointment of Domain Coordinator(s)
• Mary Kay Blantz Library Maintenance
• Hidekazu Enjo Validation (not confirmed)
• 360o review of all maintenance tasks
• Libraries, Codelists, XML Schema generation
• Publication processes
• Validation

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Bureau Programme Support

• Progress for the week
• CCTS 3.0 Property Harmonization
• EDIFACT DMR processing completed
• 11.A XML schemas produced
• 11.A CCL revalidated

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Bureau Programme Support

• Progress for the week
• Identified key areas to focus on
• Streamline production process(es)
• Updates to technical specifications and
  methodologies to eliminate oddities that
  drive unnecessary work and rework.
• Capacity building
• BPS needs help, especially in the codelist,
  validation, and EDIFACT maintenance areas
• Complete gaps in methodologies
• Validation is a key area
• Publication, versioning

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Bureau Programme Support

• Progress for the week
• Website
• Website migration issues identified with
  corrective action plan established
• Marketing / Outreach
• Piero (Fellini) Cucino has video taped many
  testimonials to be published on the website

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Bureau Programme Support

• Excellent Turnout within BPS!

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Communication results of the week

• Actions agreed with the Secreteriat
• A team was formed to update and revise the
  website www.uncefact.org
• 2. Promotional materials 5 video interviews on
  UN/CEFACT success stories

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• Closing Remarks