The European B2B Forum for the Electronics Industry

 

Summary Report 107th Plenary Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holger Fritzinger, SAP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lutz Jaeger of Crossgate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaboration agreement with ODETTE

Boudewijn Janssen & John Canvin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaboration agreement with OAGi Boudewijn Janssen & David Connelly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

107th Plenary Theme Speakers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rainer Jahraus of SAP
the 107th Plenary Host

 

Dear EDIFICE colleague,

 

The 107th EDIFICE Plenary was held on 4th & 5th February 2009 in Walldorf Germany hosted by SAP and co-sponsored by Crossgate.

The theme covered:

“Simplifying Business Network enablement”

 

The Plenary featured contributions from Crossgate, C&F, Fairchild, GXS, IBM, Motorola,  SAP, Telecom Italia, Odette and OAGi.

 

Member representatives have access to the presentation material. The presentation summaries can be found in the “Latest News” section on www.edifice.org/ - Direct Link here. The video recordings of the presentations will be made available soon.

Member representatives may request a personal login by sending a mail to the secretariat.

 

EDIFICE, SAP and Crossgate welcomed over 50 delegates from 29 different organisations.

 

 

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EDIFICE Organisation:

 

·         New member companies:

Three companies applied for membership and they were very warmly welcomed in the community: Crossgate, Pipechain and Telcordia.

 

·         Elections of Secretary and Treasurer:

Eric Pannekeet of Fairchild Semiconductor was nominated for a next term as Secretary and Stefan Harrstedt of Sony Ericsson was nominated for the function of Treasurer. Both accepted the nominations and are duly elected.

 

·         Call for nominations:

The 107th Plenary calls for nominations for the function of Vice-Chair.
Denise Oakley, EMEA Marketing Director at GXS is nominated for the function of Vice-Chair.
All nominations should be submitted by June 1st 2009.

 

 

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EDIFICE Activity Updates:

 

·         AsiaB2B:

AsiaB2B, the B2B User forum for Asia-Pacific being created with the support of EDIFICE, released its website www.asiaB2B.org/. Eleven companies sign up as Founder and the organisation is being registered in Singapore. AsiaB2B Task Group activities are getting started. One group will focus on Business Processes and a second group will focus on SME Integration. The AsiaB2B Inauguration Conference is planned to be held in Singapore in the 2nd half of 2009.

 

·         B2B User forum in the Americas:

The B2B User group organisation in the USA has been disbanded. The people who used to be involved in this organisation are now looking to set up a new platform to serve the B2B interest of the high tech companies in the Americas.

 

·         ODETTE - Automotive:
Boudewijn Janssen and John Canvin signed the EDIFICE/ODETTE collaboration agreement that will allow both organisations to collaborate on projects of common interest. The Projects identified are in the Collaborative Forecasting and the Automatic Data Capture/RFID areas.

·         OAGi:

The membership has shown an interest in the OAGIS standard developments and agreed that EDIFICE signed a collaboration agreement with the OAGi organisation at this 107th Plenary. The objective is to investigate how the OAGIS standard covers the B2B requirements for those business processes of interest to the EDIFICE membership.

 

·         RosettaNet:
The remote report from Donald Tsusaki highlighted the latest news from the RosettaNet organisation. The RosettaNet standard is freely accessible again. Non-members have to register themselves. The GS1 global integration has been deferred and the roadmap reports activities in the areas of Message Control & Choreography, Reverse Logistics and UN/CEFACT Core Components. RosettaNet introduces a new membership model.

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The EDIFICE Business area Task Groups report the following activities:  

 

·         ADC- Automatic Data Capture by Erich Guenter of IBM, ADC Chair
The group is holding a next FtF meeting after Plenary that will agree on the road map for 2009. Focus will be on the update of ADC deliverables to include latest updates of related international standards i.e. ISO
There will be a focus on RFID and more specifically in the context of the collaboration with ODETTE.


ADC holds its monthly conf calls on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

 

·         BILL-eInvoicing by Tony Nisbett of IBM, BILL Chair

The BILL Task Group held a meeting on the day prior to Plenary. Unfortunately the turnout was again very low. All member representatives are asked to please get their finance people involved in the BILL group.

Tony reports on the latest activities on eInvoicing in Europe within the CEN/ISSS organisation where he participates and represents EDIFICE in the Compliance subgroup. Tony invites the audience to look into the eInvoicing “Good Practice Guideline” that was published for review.
The European Commission published a proposal to change the European VAT Directive.

All documents are available from this new website: http://www.e-invoice-gateway.net

BILL holds its meetings adjacent to Plenary meetings.

 

·        DCM – Distribution Channel Management by Eric Pannekeet of Fairchild Semiconductor.

The group is holding a FtF meeting after Plenary. The Agenda will cover a presentation on the Fairchild DCM application that was kicked of recently and that deals with the GDSCO topic (Global Distribution Supply Chain Optimisation).
Another topic is to include a cross reference to the OAGIS BoDs applicable to the DCM area.
DCM is collaborating on an update of the RosettaNet Request for Quote and Ship from Stock & Debit Authorization business processes to include a Supplier initiated confirmation/response.

DCM holds monthly conf calls on the 1st Wednesday of each month.

·         FIM - Forecast & Inventory Management by Mario Mueller of Siltronic
The FIM group is holding a FtF meeting after Plenary. The Agenda will discuss the 2009 Roadmap.
One of the topics being envisioned is to create a set of guidelines describing how to perform collaborative performance management in a standard manner.
Another project is to review the options to align the FIM activities with OAGi through participation in a project being led by Intel.
 
One of the major topics is the ODETTE collaboration that will be kicked off at the next day´s meeting.

FIM holds regular conf calls and all interested to contribute are asked to step forward.

  • New activities:
    EDIFICE ran a membership survey during January and the results show an interest to start new activities in the area of     B2B Technology and SME Integration.

    The June Plenary will kick-off the B2B Technology Group.

    In the SME Integration context EDIFICE is contributing to a project creating Excel spreadsheet Templates to serve the need for companies to exchange electronic data with non-EDI enabled trading partners.

       

 

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Boudewijn Janssen, EDIFICE Chair, thanks Rainer Jahraus and SAP to host this 107th Plenary in Walldorf. Thanks to all at SAP for the great Logistics and Technical support.
Lutz Jaeger and Crossgate are thanked to sponsor the splendid 107th Plenary dinner in Mannheim.

 

More 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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108th EDIFICE PLENARY

 

Is being planned to take place in the UK on 3-4 June 2009 hosted by Inovis.

Because of the current economic situation that restricts travel for some companies we are looking into alternative means of organising this conference.

All details on June Plenary will be announced shortly. 

 

Theme will be around “Cost savings through efficient B2B processes & tools”. Member companies interested to present a case study related to the theme are asked to get in touch with the secretariat.

 

All active Task Groups are planning to hold meetings adjacent to Plenary.

Keep an eye on the web site to find the latest programme. www.edifice.org/

 

 

Please mark your diaries for 3-4 June 2009 and DO INVITE your Trading Partners! 

 

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The EDIFICE Directors

 

 

 

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