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Dear EDIFICE
colleague,
The 104th
Plenary was held on 5th –
6th March 2008 in Prague,
Czech Republic. The Plenary was
hosted by Microsoft and co-sponsored
by Infosys.
The theme
covered:
“Distribution Channel Management”
The Plenary
featured contributions from
Microsoft, Infosys, Silica, NXP
Semiconductors, DHL, Dickinson Dees,
E2open, GXS, RosettaNet and the
EDIFICE Task Group Chairs.
According to
the audience’s feedback the overall
programme was well received. People
found it a very productive event
with interesting contributions
featuring experience sharing on
Supply Chain enterprise
architectures, the long road to
supply chain Collaboration, issues
on Product Data Accuracy and how the
global distribution supply chain can
be optimized. The legal issues that
surround eCommerce supply chain
solutions and how an organization
may present a coherent and
consistent business process view to
its customers through an integrated
communications channel.
EDIFICE
welcomed over 60 delegates from 31
different organisations of which 10
Observing organizations.
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All Plenary
material is available on the
web. Find the links in the 'Latest
News'
section on the
www.edifice.org/
home page.
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The EDIFICE
Business area Task Groups report the
following activities:
BILL-eInvoicing
by Tony Nisbett of IBM, BILL Chair
The BILL Task
Group met on the previous day and
wishes to encourage the membership
to delegate their eInvoicing experts
to contribute to the TG activities.
The BILL group is a forum where
member companies speak openly about
eInvoicing issues and solutions. A
forum where all eInvoicing experts
can contribute and learn.
Tony
represents EDIFICE in the CEN/ISSS
forum and reports on the last
meetings. The objective of the
initiative is to stimulate further
standardization work in the domain
of electronic invoices in Europe
DCM – Distribution Channel
Management
by Juergen Linkens of Freescale
Semiconductor, DCM Chair
Juergen
reports that DCM decided not to
further pursue the request for a new
3A1/5D1 equivalent standalone
response PIP with RosettaNet. DCM
recommends to use a copy of the
3A1/5D1 response when required. The
group started with the update of its
Business Model guideline (BIM) to
reflect the change from Supplier &
Distributor to Distribution Channel
Management. The 5D1 process flow for
standalone response is being
included.
The 2008 plans are to publish the
updated BIM (Repository 2008-1 end
of May publication) and to continue
the Global Distribution Supply Chain
Optimization project (GDSCO) in
collaboration with EIDX. DCM holds
monthly conference calls on the 1st
Wednesday of each month at 4 PM CET.
FIM -
Forecast & Inventory Management
by Dave Gray of BT, FIM Chair
The FIM group
met on the previous day and
continued its work on the ‘Good
Practice Guide’ with sharing of
experiences on VMI and CPFR. The
meeting got a report on the ODETTE
initiative with a presentation on
PSA’s approach for forecasting.
SAP - SAP Integration
by Karin Kinne of Nokia, SAP acting
Chair
Karin reports
on the Brighton meeting where the
group shared experiences on B2B
integration scenarios with SAP
looking at business requirements and
technical solutions. The group is
planning a mapping exercise between
PIP and Idoc for the invoice. SAP is
looking at possible links with the
FIM and P&M task Groups.
The Sap group hold its meetings
adjacent to Plenaries.
Also Observer
representatives are welcome to
participate to the Business area
Task Group activities. Please
contact the EDIFICE secretariat to
register.
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EDIFICE
Organisation:
The 104th
Plenary meeting duly elects Stefan
Harrstedt of Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications as Vice-Chair. The
Officers are pleased to welcome
Stefan in the team.
The 104th
Plenary approves the proposal to
change the frequency of Plenary
meetings from quarterly to
three times a year. This
change will further
improve the quality of the
events because it will allow more
time for organizers to address
potential speakers with
relevant theme related topics.
The Plenaries will be scheduled in
February, June and October of each
year.
The September
and November Plenaries of 2008 are
combined into one big event.
The 106th Plenary is
hosted by SonyEricsson and the
University of Lund in Lund Sweden.
The exact date will be published
soon.
It was
discussed and agreed that EDIFICE
will as of now password protect all
Plenary presentations. Member
representatives will have continuous
access to the Plenary material
making use of their personal login.
Several
companies within EDIFICE, actively
trading in Asia, have raised
concerns about the lack of an
equivalent organisation in the
region, to address the many
challenging B2B/eCommerce related
business processes and
procedures. Members of EDIFICE are
currently formulating a white
paper aimed to define necessary
activities and actions in order to
validate the idea and to gain
widespread approval and support from
industry organisations as well as
membership.
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EDIFICE thanks
Karel Crombach, Jay Banerjee, Craig
Rode, Robert Meshew and Bill Gerould
for the hosting of this 104th Plenary.
Maria Jahnova was our contact for
Microsoft in Prague and we thank her
for her splendid
support.
EDIFICE also thanks Visham Mundol
and all at Infosys for the
sponsoring of the Plenary Dinner.
Special thanks
go to all our speakers for their
outstanding performance and the
EDIFICE membership and Observers for
their participation and great
support.
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NEXT EDIFICE
PLENARY:
The 105th
Plenary will take place on 28-29 May
2008 and is hosted by GXS
in Spain.
The exact
location and theme is being
decided and will be announced in the
coming days. As usual also the main
Task Groups will hold their
½ day session
adjacent to Plenary.
Please mark
your diaries for 28-29 May 2008
and DO INVITE your Trading
Partners!
The EDIFICE
Officers.
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