CIM Railway

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Information meeting - CIM/SMGS Railway
consignment note and International Standards for
Electronic documents and Data harmonization Palais
des Nations Geneva 21 September 2011
UN/CEFACT standards for data exchange in
transport documents
The Way Forward to Harmonised Electronic Trading
for International Transport / Logistics
Dominique VANKEMMEL Transport/Logistics Domain UN
/ CEFACT dvankemmel_at_wanadoo.fr
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Channels of standardization in Transport/Logistics

• eBUSINESS electronic exchanges EDI
• CEFACT / United Nations Transport / Logistics
  Domain
• CEN / ISSS Information Society Standards Systems
  / eBES eBusinees European Standards Transport
  EEG2
• Liaison with ISO/TC154 and OASIS / W3C
• Intelligent Transport Systems
• ISO TC 204 ( liaison with UN/CEFACT Transport)
• Other ISO committees TC 104 Containers, TC 8
  Maritime...
• CEN ITSSG Intelligent Transport Systems
  Steering Group under ICTSB European Commission
  - TC 278 Road Transport Trafic Telematics (RTTT)
• Telecommunications
• ETSI European Telecom Standards Institute - User
  Group and others - exchanges with mobile
  vehicles, interoperability, human factors...

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is

• transfer of structured data, by agreed
• message standards, from one computer system
• to another by electronic means

Electronic Data Interchange
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the focal point for eBusiness
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UN/CEFACT previous organization (up to July
2011)
UNITED NATIONS CEFACT Forum (TBG3)
ISO
UN / CEFACT Regional Committees
- America - Pacific - Asia -
Af rica - Europe
CEN - Comité Européen de Normalisation
eBES - electronic Business European Standards
Working Groups (EEG)
Délégations
EEG2 Transport/Logistics
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UN/CEFACT Previous Organization
Plenary
Plenary Chair
___ Bureau

• Advisory Support to Plenary Chair
• Heads of National Delegations Group
• International Group
• Academic Community Advisor

UNECESecretariat
UNECESecretariat (eBGT Trust Fund
Administration)
ForumManagement Group
Techniques and Methodologies Group
Information Content Management Group
Legal Group
Applied Technology Group
International Trade and Business Processes
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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UN / CEFACT Group Mandates Previous organisation

• TBG - International Trade and Business
  Processes Group business and governmental
  process analysis, best practices, and
  international trade procedures using the
  UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology to support the
  development of appropriate electronic business
  solutions User needs

• ICG - Information Contents Management Group
  management and definition of reusable
  information blocks retained in a series of
  libraries

• ATG - Applied Technologies Group creation of
  the trade, business and administration document
  structures that would be deployed by a specific
  technology or standard such as UN/EDIFACT or XML.
  Liaison with UBL -Universal Business Language -
  (from OASIS / W3C)

• TMG - Techniques and Methodologies Group
  providing all UN/CEFACT Groups with base ICT
  specifications, recommendations and education. It
  functions also as an ICT research group.

• LG - Legal Group issuing, publishing and
  presenting analysis and recommendations regarding
  legal matters related to UN/CEFACT.

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TBG Working Group Structure
TBG15 Trade Facilitation
TBG14 Business Process Analysis
TGB17 Core Component Harmonisation
TBG1 Supply Chain TBG 3 Transport
Logistics TBG4 Customs TBG5 Finance TBG6
Architecture, Engineering and Construction TBG8
Insurance TBG9 Travel, Tourism and Leisure TBG10
Healthcare TBG12 Accounting and Audit TBG13
Environment TBG18 Agriculture TBG19 eGovernment
TBG16 Entry Point for UN/XML and UN/EDIFACT
Change Requests
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TBG Working Groups

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International Supply Chain Reference Model
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International Supply Chain Reference Model
BUY
PAY
SHIP
Prepare for Export
Prepare for Import
Transport
Export
Import
INVOLVES

• Commercial
• Procedures
• Establish Sales Contract
• Order Goods
• Advise On Delivery
• Request Payment

• Transport
• Procedures
• Establish Transport Contract
• Collect Transport and Deliver Goods
• Provide Waybills, Goods Receipts Status Reports

• Regulatory
• Procedures
• Obtain Import/Export Licences
• Provide Customs Declarations
• Provide Cargo Declarations
• Apply Trade Security Procedures
• Clear Goods for Import/Export

• Financial
• Procedures
• Provide Credit Rating
• Provide Insurance
• Provide Credit
• Execute Payment
• Issue Statements

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International Supply Chain Reference Model
BUY
PAY
SHIP
Prepare for Export
Prepare for Import
Transport
Export
Import
INVOLVES

• Regulatory
• Procedures

• Financial
• Procedures

• Commercial
• Procedures

Transport Procedures
AND BENEFITS FROM REUSABLE END-TO-END
INTEROPERABLE CORE COMPONENTS
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• Participants
• National delegations / Regional entry points
• International Transport Organisations, all modes
  of transport I.e. air, sea
• (short sea and deep sea), road, rail, ports
  (IATA,FIATA,UIC,ICS,IRU)
• Other Industry sectors (GS1 ex EAN Distribution
  etc)
• Cooperation with ANSI X12 I (Transport),
  OASIS/UBL Transport Committee, ISO TC154 and
  other ISO Committees dealing with transport
  standards....

• Close liaisons with
• Customs WCO (ex TBG4)
• Other UN/CEFACT groups Supply Chain, Insurance,
  Environmental, Finance, International Trade
  Procedures

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UN / CEFACT TRANSPORT TBG3 ( EEG2 European
counterpart)

• MISSION / TASKS
• Standardisation development of Electronic
  Business documents for Transport / Logistics -
  International, intersectorial, intermodal scope
• Based on UMM / UML modeling
• Application in syntaxes/ technologies EDIFACT,
  XML/Internet
• Maintenance of standard directories, code
  lists..
• Harmonising the international guidelines for
  UN/EDIFACT-XML
• transport messages implementation (ITIGG /
  WETIGG - International
• Transport Implementation Guideline Group)
• Developments in the other technologies RFID,
  Bar Code, Mobile EDI...

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UN /CEFACT TRANSPORT
50 EDIFACT standard messages for
Transport/Logistics among total 250

• EDIFACT messages for Multimodal Freight -
  exemples
• Transport Order - Bordereau groupage  IFTMIN
  IFCSUM
• Status report  IFTSTA
• Transport Booking IFTMBP/BF/BC
• Manifest  IFCSUM ( EDIMAN)
• Transport contract ( CMR, CIM, Bill of Lading,
  Air Way Bill..) IFTMCS
• Dangerous goods notification IFTDGN
• Containers mouvement, maritime and inland CO.
• Stowage plan ( Bayplan )  BAPLIE
• Berth management BERMAN
• Waste disposal WASDIS
• Logistics, cargo handling  HANMOV
• Invoicing  IFTFCC INVOIC
• Customs Manifest, declaration, response
  CUSCAR,CUSDEC,CUSRES

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• GLOBAL HARMONISATION OF EDI IN TRANSPORT
• CREATED SEPT 1995 as an official sub-group of
  D4/TBG3 Transport
• MISSION
• Provide Principles and Rules for production of
  consistent
• and harmonised implementation guidelines and
  user
• manuals of UN/EDIFACT and XML Transport
  messages throughout
• the world
• PIONEERING WORK FOR YEARS TO HELP USERS IN
  IMPLEMENTING STANDARDS

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• International Consortium
• UN / CEFACT
• OASIS Organisation for Advancement of
  Structured Information Standards (Internet world
  W3C)
• Launched Sept 1999
• Objective develop fine specifications for XML
  exchange architecture
• Standardisation roles split between
• UN/CEFACT semantic contents, data and
  business models based on the considerable asset
  of EDIFACT
• OASIS technical infrastructure allowing to
  share registries / dictionaries

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ebxml semantic contents ( business view)
ebxml semantic contents ( business view)

• Data model based on Core Components
• Business Process models
• Methodology UMM / UML
• Deliverables of UN/CEFACT TBG  Technology
  neutral 
• - BRS Business Requirements Specifications
• - RSM Requirements Specifications Mapping

ebXML technical architecture

• New concepts
• - CPP Collaboration Partner Profile
• - CPA Collaboartion Profile Agreement

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ebXML specifications published by ISO TC 154

• June 2004 ( from OASIS )
• ISO/TS 15000-1 ebCPP ebXML Collaborative Partner
  Profile AgreementISO/TS 15000-2 ebMS ebXML
  Messaging Service SpecificationISO/TS 15000-3
  ebRIM ebXML Registry Information ModelISO/TS
  15000-4 ebRS ebXML Registry Services
  Specification
• October 2004 ( from UN/CEFACT )
• ISO TS 15000-5 CCTS v2.01 ebXML Core
  Components Technical Specifications
• Reminder existing EDI Standards ISO 7372 TDED
  Data Elements Directory and ISO 9735 EDIFACT
  Syntax Rules

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UN/CEFACT New Structure July 2011

• Objective
• improve the procedures in order to make the
  standardization process more efficient and to
  produce the UN/CEFACT deliverables in a more
  timely fashion.
• reduce the layers of management
• Initiated at the CEFACT Forum Geneva
  August-Sept 2010
• Negative reactions from TBG groups,
  brainstormingsTransition Team
• Further discussed at the CEFACT Forum
  Washington March 2011
• Approval at the UN/CEFACT Plenary Assembly 7-8
  July 2011
• New organization based on
• PDAs Program Development Areas led by 9
  Vice-Chairs members of the CEFACT Bureau
• Project Teams
• Business Domains Groups
• no more direct decision power, new set-up to be
  defined
• First CEFACT Forum under the new structure
  Geneva 19-23 Sept 2011

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UN/CEFACT New Structure July 2011
UN/CEFACT Registry of Domains
Technical
Audit / Validation
Business Process Modelling
Communication
Harmonisation
Legal
Library maintenance
Library production
Methodology
Publications
UN/EDIFACT
XML
Business
Accounting Audit
Agriculture
Customs
Environmental Management
Finance/Payments
Government
Health Care
Insurance
International Trade Procedures
Procurement
Supply Chain Management
Transport
Travel/Tourism
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UN/CEFACT New Structure July 2011

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UN/CEFACT New Structure Proposal July 2011
Vice Chair 6
Vice Chair 1
Vice Chair 2
Vice Chair 3
Vice Chair 4
Vice Chair 5
Programme Development Area ___ Operations and
Support
Programme Development Area ___ Cross border
and/or regulatory
Programme Development Area ___ Supply Chain
Programme Development Area ___ Trade and
Transport Facilitation
Programme Development Area ___ Sectoral
Programme Development Area ___ Methodology and
Technology
PDAs
Harmonization Validation Library
code Maintenance and Production EDIFACT and XML
Publication Legal Communications
Agriculture Environmental management/reporting C
ustoms Transport Government
Accounting audit Procurement Transport Finance/p
ayments Government Manufacturing Supply chain
management
Government Transport International trade
procedures Insurance Business process models
Accounting audit Insurance Travel/tourism/Leisu
re Finance/ payments Statistics Agriculture Govern
ment Health care
Business process specifications Methodology Tec
hnical specification Procedures
Domains
Note one Vice Chair may be responsible for more
than one PDA.
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UN/CEFACT July 2011 Elected Bureau

  CHAIR Stuart Feder   VICE CHAIRS Peter
Amstutz Pier Alberto Cucino Mike Doran Viktor
Dravitsa Tahseen A. Kahn Tim McGrath Bruno
Prepin Harm Jan van Burg Mats Wicktor
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UN/CEFACT July 2011 PDAs and Vice-Chairs

• Trade Transport Facilitation - Vice Chairs
  Mats Wicktor and Viktor Dravitsa
• International Trade Procedures, Customs,
  Transport
• Supply Chain Vice Chairs Mike Doran and Tim
  McGrath
• Supply Chain Management, Procurement,
  Payments/Finance, Accounting and Audit
• Regulatory Vice Chairs Tahseen Khan and Mats
  Wicktor
• Customs, Government, Environmental Management
• Sectoral Vice Chairs Bruno Prepin and
  Harm-Jan van Burg
• Agriculture, Health Care, Insurance,
  Travel/Tourism
• Methodology Technology Vice Chairs Peter
  Amstutz and Tim McGrath
• Business Process Analysis, Methodology,
  Harmonisation, Library, Audit, UN/EDIFACT, XML

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Usefull URL Links

• UN/CEFACT Secretariat
• www.unece.org/cefact
• UN/CEFACT TBG3 Transport / Logistics Group
• www.smdg.org/tbg 3
• ITIGG International Transport Implementation
  Guidelines Group
• www.smdg.org/itigg
• Norm_at_FRET
  French program on  Fleet Management and
  Commercial Freight Standardisation 
• www.normafret.org

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UN/CEFACT standards for data exchange in
transport documents
Thanks for your attention
Dominique VANKEMMEL Transport/Logistics Domain UN
/ CEFACT dvankemmel_at_wanadoo.fr