Stakeholder

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Stakeholders Perspectives

• Sectors
• Dick Raman
• UN/CEFACT Bureau

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Background

• For more than 25 years UN/CEFACT has had
  contributions from
• Businesses,
• Governments,
• Non-governmental organizations,
• Individual experts worldwide
• Dedicating crucial resources
• Developing open electronic business standards
• Resulting in Standards and Recommendations
• Leading to efficiencies in business and trade.

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UN/CEFACT Instruments

• Starting in the 1960s and up to the present day
• UNLK and UNTDED
• UN Recommendations
• UN/EDIFACT
• All the Fortune 500 companies have EDI links in
  place
• ebXML initiative
• UN/CEFACT Core Component Library

4
Contributed Expertise

• Cross-Border Trade
• Supply Chain and e-procurement
• Transportation Logistics
• Customs
• Finance
• Travel, Tourism and Leisure
• Accounting and Auditing
• Insurance

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New Challenges

• After all the Hype we see
• ...emergence of global supply chains
• ...just-in-time delivery and inventory reduction
• ...development of multi-modal transport services
• ...growth of lower cost electronic communications
  including via the Internet
• ...increasing use of outsourcing
• ...Single Windows to governments

6
New sectors engaging

• Agricultural Tracking Tracing of food
  products
• eGovernment Services to the private sector
• Electricity New industry initiative

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Renewed Engagement

• Financial - end-to-end eprocessing of a payment
  
• WCO - define a common harmonised CCTS compliant
  reference data model
• IATA - e-freight programme with UNeDocs
• Insurance - National and International

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Insurance A Local Business With Global Needs

• Insurance policies are generally written on a
  national or provincial level
• Exceptions
• Reinsurance
• Large Commercial
• Future Move towards single market by EU
• Insurance Supervision and the Need for Data
  Standards
• IAIS (International Association of Insurance
  Supervisors)
• core principles recommend data sharing across
  jurisdictions and across financial services
  sectors in the regulation of financial
  conglomerates.
• Global Reinsurance Market Report cites challenge
  to collection of meaningful data production of
  global data by aggregating local data that is not
  compiled on a consistent basis

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Future developments for the Centres products and
services

• Unique Position for UN/CEFACT
• Building the eBusiness standards framework
• Methodologies for Business Process modelling
  (UMM),
• Information data modelling (CCTS),
• Core Component Library,
• Business Requirements Specifications (BRS),
• Registry/Repository
• Foundation for responding to the modern
  challenges of international trade
• Syntax-neutral semantics implementable in
• EDI, XML, webServices, Paper.
• This encapsulates the power of the UN/CEFACT
  approach.

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SDOs are now approaching UN/CEFACT

• They have
• National formats (flat file formats)
• EDIFACT and PreEDIFACT EDI formats
• Moved to XML as early as 1999
• Wide spread implementation
• They needSemantic interoperability at a global
  level.
• UN/CEFACT can offer platform for alignment
  between these different XML approaches through
  the adoption of CCTS.

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Some Topics for an Exchange of Views A Starting
Point

• How can sectors specifically benefit from
  UN/CEFACT work, particularly to enable greater
  efficiencies and the facilitation of
  international trade?
• Where should the UN/CEFACT priorities be focused
  in the near and medium-term?
• How important are the benefits that would be
  offered by the collaboration of UN/CEFACT and WCO
  to define the proposed Common Reference Data
  Model?
• Where and what are the opportunities for enhanced
  benefits to be gained from cross-sector
  collaboration through UN/CEFACT activities?
• What are the opportunities for broader sectoral
  participation and involvement of national and
  governmental operational experts in UN/CEFACT?