BCP MC Oversimplified Overview

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UN/CEFACT
UN/CEFACT Forum, Bonn Germany 2004Closing
Plenary12th March 2004
UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND
ELECTRONIC BUSINESS Under the auspices of United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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UN/CEFACT Forum Closing Plenary Agenda

• Welcome
• New Proposals
• Future Venues
• Group Reports
• TBG
• ICG
• ATG
• TMG

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CEFACT FORUM COORDINATION Team Report
Specialization of processes for a specific
partnership (e.g. CPA)
New Project Proposals
Specialization of processes for a specific purpose
- 1 New Proposal Approved         UMM
Profile of UML Artifact TMG Lead
Definition of common processes (e.g. CBP Library,
Collaboration Patterns)
Definition of common vocabulary used in business
operations
Domain of this project
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CEFACT FORUM Future Venues
America McLean Virginia 13 17 Sept 2004
Hosted by DISA Location TBD March 2005
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General Information

• All of the MAY Plenary Documents are available on
  the UN/Website http//www.unece.org/uncefact/
• CSG OVERVIEW TRADE/CEFACT/2004/36
• CSG REORGANIZATION TRADE/CEFACT/2004/27
• IPR TRADE/CEFACT/2003/6/Rev.1
• SSP TRADE/CEFACT/2004/26
• Mandates/ Terms of Reference TRADE/CEFACT/R.650/Re
  v.3
• Reminder Elections in September
• A moment to reflect

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Now a word of appreciation ..

• Please complete your meeting surveys

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ICGInformation Content Management Group

• Chair Mike Conroy
• Vice Chair David Dobbing

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UN Recommendations

• Review of UN Recommendations under modification
• Rec. 24 Trade and Transport Status Codes
• Rec. 20 Units of Measure
• Others

ICG approved ODP public review
Outstanding work item ODP within next 3 months
No changes submitted to review
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Workflow Administration

1. Approval of the Group workflow procedures
2. ICG website
3. Review of Work Programme.

We APPROVED THEM!
Its an urgent action item
Time is going by and weve got lots to do!
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Workflow documentation

• Business Requirements Specification BRS
• Objectives
• Scope use case
• Business requirements use cases, activity
  diagrams
• Conceptual model class diagram
• Business constraints dependency tables
• Requirements Specification Mapping RSM
• Conceptual model class diagram
• Canonical model class diagram
• BBIEs with constraints
• ABIEs associated with ACCs
• Associated documentation

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BRS

1. Review of the Business Requirements Specification
   (BRS) comments

BRS submitted to ATG and TBG for review approval

• Presented workflow (BRS/RSM ) to e-cert project
  team
• Development of e-cert BRS with ICG support
• E-cert project will be treated for workflow
  (BRS/RSM ) proof of concept

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RSM

• Requirements Specification Mapping (RSM)
• Finalise initial draft with other groups
• Evaluate the INSTAT example to verify RSM
  document content

First Draft ready for publication!!

• Submitted project request for development of UMM
  profile for UML
• TMG to lead project. ICG will provide initial
  contribution
• ICG will provide an interim profile for class
  diagrams
• Developed canonical model for INSTAT message

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Other items

1. Development of the ICG repository strategy
2. Review of the UN Code List migration plan

Examined registry specification. Planned study in
detail before Washington
More time, more people
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UN/CEFACT
SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR
GLOBAL BUSINESS.
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UN/CEFACT
ATG Applied Technologies Group Chair
Margaret Pemberton Vice Chair Anders Grangård
UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND
ELECTRONIC BUSINESS Under the auspices of United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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ATG Resolution

• ATG resolves that the UN/CEFACT registry should
  fully support the latest version of the ebXML
  registry specifications, which includes the
  storage of CCTS defined artefacts.

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ATG Projects

• Standard Business Document Header
• Standard Business Document Header' will enable
  integration between internal applications,
  enterprise applications, and business-to-business
  infrastructure by acting as a consistent
  interface between applications. 
• ATG Approval
• Implementation Verification started ODP Step 6

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ATG1 (UN/EDIFACT) ProjectsAnders Grangård

• UML to UN/EDIFACT Transformation Rules
• to enable ebXML Core Components compliant
  UN/EDIFACT constructs to be created based on UMM
  compliant models  
• 1st working draft this week ODP Step 3
• ATG review end of April ODP Step 4
• Public review May ODP Step 5

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ATG1 (UN/EDIFACT) ProjectsAnders Grangård

• UN/EDIFACT Data Maintenance Requests for D.04A
• 64 DMRs
• Approved 15
• JTd 25
• Postponed 8
• Rejected 16

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ATG2 (XML) ProjectsMark Crawford

• XML Naming and Design Rules
•  Rules and guidelines for the application of
  this important technology as part of UN/CEFACTs
  strategy for next-generation cross-functional
  business messages 
• Worked hard and long on the XML Naming and design
  rules
• Internal review planned for April
• Public Review planned for May / June
• Implementation / Verification planned for
  September meeting in Washington

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ATG2 (XML) Projects (cont)Mark Crawford

• Review of requirements for other ATG2 projects to
  be performed in June
• Begin to formalise the schema production process
  and further identify additional information
  dependencies from TBG and ICG
• Open invitation to weekly conference calls
• Every Monday UTC 1230

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ATG Next Meeting

• Walldorf, Germany
• June 21-25th 2004
• Hosted by SAP
• ALL WELCOME

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UN/CEFACT
SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR
GLOBAL BUSINESS.
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TBG International Trade Facilitation and Business
Process Group Chair Ralph Berwanger Vice-Chai
r(s) Sue Probert, Mike Doran
TBG Report - SEOUL September 15 19, 2003
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Achievements of the Week

• 13 Groups 90 Participants
• 4 new Projects Approved, 2 new Project
  co-operations arranged
• Presentations of the week
• TBG 6 - Open Forum on current projects
• TBG 14 - CBPC Catalog Specification
• TBG 17 - Harmonization Session
• Forum Operating Procedures TBG, ATG, ICG
• Future Organisational Structure Submission to
  Plenary
• e-Cert project meeting
• TBG17 Core Component Library Milestone

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Projects Update

• 4 new Projects Approved
• Invoice Process project
• Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
• Trade Facilitation and TF Security Models
• 2 new Project co-operations arranged between TBG6
  and TBG1
• e-Catalog Project
• e-Tendering Project

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TBG3 Transport - Resolutions
Resolution 1 UNeDocs Project TBG3, recognising
the need to take into account the Transport
inputs in the UNeDocs deliverables, resolves to
seek coordination with the UNeDocs project team
at UN level and hence request to review their
data model, semantic content and messages related
to Transport. Any resultant changes will be
submitted to ensure consistency with the TBG3
ebXML work Resolution 2 Geolocation ISO /
TC211 and TC204 TBG3 resolves to endorse the
proposal from ISO/TC211 for expressing
geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude,
altitude) in relation to the ISO 6709 standard
update, and to consider this input in its
modelling and ITIGG implementation guidelines.
TBG3 will also continue to work jointly with ISO
/ TC204 / WG7.2 to consider this approach in the
standard development work on  Data dictionary
and messages set for Intermodal Transport .
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TBG14 Business Process Modelling

• Joint Session with TBG 15 International Trade
• Procedures Working Group
• Identified possible candidates for future work
  including
• the single window initiative
• import/export proposal of the international
  chamber of commerce

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TBG15 International Trade Procedures

• Joint Session with TBG3 (Transport) and TBG5
  (Finance) on Update of UNECE Recommendation 12
  Measures to facilitate Maritime documentary
  procedures.

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• TBG Submission to UN/CEFACT Plenary

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eCert Ratification Project Team Meeting 9 11
March
Next Steps

• Seek TBG endorsement of Teams Terms of Reference
  March 2004
• 2. Consider draft Business Requirements
  Specification (BRS) April 2004
• 3. Review eCert data elements for completeness
• April 2004
• 4. Engage EU WCO representation
• April 2004
• 5. Next meeting by teleconference to discuss
  progress
• May 2004

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UN/CEFACT
SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR
GLOBAL BUSINESS.
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UN/CEFACT
TMGTechniques and Methodologies Group
Klaus-Dieter Naujok, ChairChristian Huemer, Vice
ChairJens Dietrich, Secretariat
UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND
ELECTRONIC BUSINESS Under the auspices of United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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Highlights of Activities this week

• General
• Progressed new TMG Membership rules which would
  ensure that the active contributors are the
  decision makers of their projects
• CC Resolution
• In order to have all specifications within the
  ebXML framework within ISO, We resolve to submit
  the Core Components Technical Specification
  Version 2.01 to ISO TC 154 for fast-tracking as a
  Draft Technical Specification.

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Highlights of Activities this week

• IPR Policy
• Ready to reissue call for participation with IPR
  Policy and Membership rules as agreed to by
  Plenary
• New Projects
• Agreed in principle to accept ICG proposed
  project to develop a UMM profile of UML artifacts
• TMG StC to accept (no quorum at this meeting)

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Highlights of Activities this week

• BPWG
• Reviewed BCF Roadmap with general session to
  clarify what work items would be in what document
  with in the N09X set
• Progressed work on N090 (BCF Introduction)
• UBAC
• Joint meeting with LG for continued requirements
  and use case discussions
• Conducted discussion seminars Legal
  considerations and ebXML, Standard Business
  Document Header (SBDH)

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Highlights of Activities this week

• CCWG
• Resolved to submit CCTS Version 2.01 for fast
  tracking to ISO TC 154 as a Technical
  Specification.
• Planned list serve discussion
• Issue Shall we work on CCTS under ISO or
  UN/CEFACT?

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Highlights of Activities this week

• CCWG
• CCTS
• Will send out call for comments on version 2.01
• 30-day comment period to end April 30th
• Teleconferences to start May 13th
• Possible F2F week of 26-July
• CCUG
• Finalize alignment with UMM User Guide
• Send to TMG Steering Committee for approval to
  send out for TMG final review

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Next meetings

• 24-28 May 2004, TMG Meeting
• Waldorf Germany
• 13-17 September, Forum Meeting
• McLean, VA, USA
• 6-10 December, TMG Meeting
• Detroit, MI, USA
• March 2005, Forum
• Asia
• May/June 2005, TMG Meeting
• Barcelona, Spain (???)

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UN/CEFACT
SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR
GLOBAL BUSINESS.
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• Safe Travels
• Good Wishes
• Until we meet
• in September