eBIZ adoption mini course

January 2017

eBIZ initiativePiero De Sabbata, piero.desabbata@enea.it

Arianna Brutti, arianna.brutti@enea.it

Summary

1. Terminology2. eBIZ3. eBIZ applicative domain4. Focus on…5. The adoption path6. Resources and documentation7. Validation and control

eBIZ in shortInitiative launched by European Commission (DG Industry & Enterprise) and promoted by EURATEX, CEC and ENEA, manged by EURATEX.

ObjectiveCreation of of a favourable environment for ICT and eBusiness adoption for the European Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industry enabling an inclusive supply chain integration : the REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

FocusHarmonisation, at European and International level, of architectures and existing standards related to the eBusiness for the TCF industriesCreation of a critical mass of adopters

HistoryeBIZ collects international (OASIS UBL) and sectorial experiences (Moda-ML, Shoenet) and embeds them in a common architecture (eBIZ-TCF, 2008);

eBIZ submits to CEN WS process (2013)

www.ebiz-tcf.eu

It is a specification that:Rules messages exchange between different organisations of the supply chaindefines (few) rules for the applications and the actors of the TCF supply chains willing to adopt themCreate a favourable environment for the development of (new) interoperable software applications

It is not a software application but a public document with related on-line software resources

The Reference Architecture

Answer

Message exchanges between independent systems:Message formatMessage sending and receiving via Internet through interfacesMessage comprehension and answer coherenceAnswer sending and receiving via Internet

internet

Order

What is ruled by eBIZ?

Models of PROCESSes: description of the sequence of the data exchange between the different roles (fabric producer, vendor managed inventory, subcontracting,…)

Models of DOCUMENTs Models of electronic Documents: they define the data models and make the exchanged data not ambiguous (i.e. order, textile quality report, sales report, offer request,…). Their use is mandatory.

Product and party identification methods (towards retail: GS1 GTIN and GLN)

Reliable and safe communication protocols for data exchange

Specific issues deepening:RFIDeInvoice, Business models classificationCustomised products (footwear)

Architecture elements

eBIZ management

A permanent Board promoted by EURATEX to foster adoption and maintain eBIZ (versions delivered by intervals of 2-3 years)

New versions are and will be back-compatible (incremental approach)

Deconding values tables frequently updated (incrementally)

ENEA manages as technical secretariat, collects new requirements and translate them into DRAFT proposals useful for the next releases

Technical documentation of the current official version is in http://spring.bologna.enea.it/ebiz/imple/pg.asp?p=545

Technical documentation of the current DRAFT version for UPSTREAM TC on http://www.moda-ml.org/?q=13