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The 112th
EDIFICE Plenary was held on 3-4 November
2010 in Amsterdam, NL and was hosted by
Cisco with co-sponsoring from GXS and
E2open.
The theme
covered:
“B2B
readiness in SME Markets”
The meeting
featured theme presentations from Cisco,
GXS, E2open, Crossgate and SAP ByDesign,
SolveDirect, RosettaNet and the
University of Bamberg.
Member
representatives and all Plenary
attendees may request a login to access
the presentation material posted on
www.edifice.org
The Plenary
ended with a discussion forum around
B2B readiness in SME Markets
Moderator was Brian Clarke of Cisco and
the Panel members were (LtR) Hussam
El-Leithy of RosettaNet, Tariq Choudry
of E2open, Mir Baqar of Cisco, Martin
Bittner of SolveDirect and Andreas
Schönberger of the University of Bamberg.
The panel
went into a lively discussion with the
audience and answered questions like:
What is the most important difference
between large corporations and SMEs in
terms of B2B capability and how to cope
with the differences?
SMEs don't lack knowledge on business
process level but might lack technical
specialist resources that large
enterprises make use of for their B2B
integrations. Like large organisations,
SMEs want to see a return on investment
but their investment power is relatively
smaller. In answer to the
“How to cope with the differences”
question, it was suggested that the large enterprise
partners would step down to the SME
technical level by simplifying and
standardising business processes and
providing
agile and lower investment B2B solutions and
technologies. How these requirements are
being met is open for discussion: will
it be through a Middleware, in the Cloud
or by introducing lighter standards?
Quote
from A. Einstein:
Things should be made
as simple as possible but not any
simpler
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EDIFICE
Organisation:
·
New Slogan:
EDIFICE, “The European Network for B2B
Integration in High Tech Industries”
EDIFICE decided to
revise its slogan to emphasise the fact
that the Networking part (both people
and technical networking) is of great
importance to the organisation and its
members. Key objective is to promote
awareness and help partners to achieve
their B2B Integration. The Network is
open to companies within the entire High
Tech and associated Industries.
·
Call for
nominations for the function of EDIFICE
Chairman
Due to the
yearly election cycle, the 112th
Plenary called for nominations for the
function of EDIFICE Chairman. Member
representatives may either nominate
themselves or someone else. In case they
nominate someone else they should make
sure that this person has accepted the
nomination. Deadline for submission of
all nominations is March 1st
2011.
·
Finances:
2011 Budget approval and Membership fee
Juergen Linkens,
EDIFICE Treasurer presented the proposed
budget for 2011 which was approved.
The yearly membership fee remains at €2500. The request for membership
renewal will be mailed out to membership
soonest.
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New
Deliverables:
The
EDIFICE B2B Process Adoption
group published the B2B Standards
Crosswalk. This B2B Message Cross
reference is placed on top of the
Message implementation guidelines in the
EDIFICE Repository. See
http://repository.edifice.org/
The
Marketing group launched a new
EDIFICE Slogan, Published the new web
site and introduces the new EDIFICE
Value Add Presentation in different
formats. Check out our new web site at
www.edifice.org today!
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EDIFICE Activity Updates
by the Task Group
Chairmen
· BPA
- B2B Process Adoption
by Dane Manes, GXS
Dane reports the group’s
2010 deliverables and
2011 plans. Focus will
be on the extension of
the newly published B2B
standards Crosswalk
drilling down to data
element level. The
entire EDIFACT MIG base
is being upgraded to
Directory D.10A. The
Evaluation of ROI models
and KPI definitions
activities are
continued.
AT the Face-to-Face
meeting held on the
previous day it was
decided to embrace a
recently launched new
initiative in the SME
enablement area. BPA
intends to develop a set
of Business Process
Integrators (BPIs).
BPI is a new
architecture for
defining business
processes and their
related data structures
in a lightweight
technology. The
architecture is based on
a use case in production
at Godiva Chocolatier.
Member companies are
encouraged to contribute
to the BPA activities.
BPA holds one-hour conf
calls every other week
on Wednesday morning
starting at 10 AM CET.
·
DCM-Distribution Channel
Management
by Juergen Linkens,
Freescale Semiconductor
The report showed the
activity around the
updates of the group’s
deliverables. Further
activities in 2010 will
focus on alignment with
the B2B Process adoption
group upgrading and
extending the
Repository. Another
activity is around
Distribution Supply
Chain optimization. An
update of the current
status was presented at
the next day’s DCM
meeting in Amsterdam.
DCM holds monthly
conference calls on the
1st Friday of
each month starting at
10 AM CET.
·
BILL – eInvoicing
by Tony Nisbett, IBM
The BILL group held a
meeting on the previous
day. A couple of
Implementation guideline
Change requests were
discussed RE: reverse
VAT charges in the
INVOIC.
CEN/ISSS work is
continued. Visit this
website and find a
number of very
interesting publications
around eInvoicing and
the CEN/ISSS work:
www.e-invoice-gateway.net
The group looked at the
specifics of the new EU
Directive on eInvoicing
(2010/45/EU) that will
be in force on
01/01/2013.
Tony recommends to keep
an eye on PEPPOL:
http://www.peppol.eu/
“The broader vision of
PEPPOL is that any
company (incl. SMEs) in
the EU can communicate
electronically with any
EU governmental
institution for all
procurement processes.
The objective of the
PEPPOL (Pan-European
Public eProcurement
On-Line) project is to
set up a pan-European
pilot solution that,
conjointly with existing
national solutions,
facilitates EU-wide
interoperable public
eProcurement. The vision
of the PEPPOL project is
that any company and in
particular SMEs in the
EU can communicate
electronically with any
European governmental
institution for the
entire procurement
process. The final
outcome of PEPPOL will
be an interoperational
environment build upon
national systems and
infrastructures
supporting the full
cycle of eProcurement
activities.”
Having electronic
solutions in place for
eProcurement processes
with the government
implies that the same
solutions could be
implemented to exchange
electronic data amongst
trading partners.
BILL eInvoicing will
meet again FtF adjacent
to the March Plenary in
Paris. Bring your topics
of interest!
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Liaison Updates
· AsiaB2B:
Eric Pannekeet of
Fairchild Semiconductor,
AsiaB2B Committee
member, presents
AsiaB2B’s current
activities and
collaboration projects
with EDIFICE. AsiaB2B
holds its 3rd
Plenary on 25-26
November in Hong Kong.
See
www.asiaB2B.org for
more details.
The EDIFICE membership
is strongly encouraged
to involve their Asian
based colleagues and
Partners in the AsiaB2B
organisation.
· ODETTE:
Joerg Walther provided
an update on the Auto-Gration
project. Auto-Gration is
a EU sponsored project
managed by ODETTE.
Joerg presented the
current
status of the project
and its reference
architecture which is
intended to enable the
integration of SMEs into
e-business networks at
low cost and without the
requirement of having
their own EDI expertise.
The architecture is
built on existing
collaboration frameworks
and uses modern
communication
technologies to extend
the established EDI
infrastructure
·
Open Applications Group:
David Connelly of Open
Applications Group
reports on the latest
developments within the
OAGi organisation. OAGi
members are looking at
the OAGIS Standard to
ensure that it supports
and enables Cloud
Computing.
OAGi is applying to
become a registered NGO
with ECOSOC (UN Economic
and Social Council)
which should improve the
member’s standing on its
further work with
UN/CEFACT.
OAGIS 9.5 is being
released with official
publication by end of
April 2011.
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Boudewijn Janssen
thanked Johan Honing and
all at Cisco for the
initiative to host the
112th Plenary
meeting at their
premises in Amsterdam.
Special thanks go to
Luisa Luna for the
overall logistics
provisions. More thanks
go to Denise Oakley of
GXS and Matthew Walker
of E2Open for their
co-sponsoring of this
event.
More thanks go to all
our speakers for their
outstanding performance
and the EDIFICE
membership and Observers
for their participation
and great support.
Cisco and EDIFICE
welcomed 70 Participants
from 34 different
organisations of which
18 Member companies.
We herewith encourage
the Observer companies
present in Amsterdam to
envisage taking more
active part in the
EDIFICE activities and
also help support the
organisation financially
by signing up as a
member.
How to join EDIFICE as a
member is explained
on-line:
Click here
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Next
Plenary
The 113th
Plenary is being
hosted by
STMicroelectronics in
Paris, FR on March 2-3,
2011. The Theme will be
around
Customer Business Model
requirements challenge
High Tech Supply Chains
“More and more often
today, Industry dynamics
force Business Partners
to request the
deployment of new
Business
models (Customer
programmes). These
models require specific
process implementations
and adaptation of
Company applications and
systems resulting in
integration challenges
via B2B links between
the various Business
Partners participating
in the programmes.”
Member
companies with interest
to present a case study
around this theme are
asked to get in touch
with the secretariat.
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The EDIFICE Directors
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