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Introduction

UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESSUnder the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UN/CEFACT

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United Nations Charter (1945)

• to maintain international peace and security; • to develop friendly relations among nations; and

• to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human

rights.


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United Nations six sub groups

• the General Assembly • the Security Council • the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) • the Trusteeship Council• the International Court of Justice• the Secretariat


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UN/ Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business

“UN/CEFACT supports activities dedicated to improving the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively.”

UN/ECOSOC

UN/ECE

UN/CEFACT

UN


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UN/CEFACT

• Mission:• Trade Facilitation and eBusiness. • To improve the ability of business, trade and

administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively.

• Contribute to the growth of global commerce• Focus

• The worldwide facilitation of national AND international transactions, through the simplification and harmonization of procedures and information flows.


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Why do we need UN/CEFACT?

Impact

Developing nations excluded from benefits of global trade.

The gap between the rich and poor continues to grow. Social impact of trade in equality affects the entire

population. Economic discrimination hurts many, major social

issues.

We can change it

Action

Analyze, understand key elements of global business Develop methods and processes including technologies. Work with other standards development organizations (SDO’s) Ensure we have one “FREE and OPEN” set of standards to use. Encourage technology companies to behave responsibly. Bridge the gap between paper and electronic commerce. Educate and build capacity for fair global trade.

What we must do.

Problem

Cultural differences, trade regulations, sanctions. Technology barriers to trade. Need to balance global trade with global security. Not all nations have basic infrastructures. Models, technologies constantly changing.

Where we are.


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UN/CEFACT

• Extensive Portfolio– UMM (UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology) and

related work (Business Process)– CC and related– Architecture (mapping)– Several Project Teams

• Multiple relationships and dependencies between vision, strategy and work projects.

UN/CEFACT

Structure and Permanent Groups


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UN/CEFACT Structure

STRATEGY

VISION

TACTICAL


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Techniques and Methodologies Group (TMG)

• Work on UMM, Business Process, Core Components and Architecture.

• Developing core eBusiness framework

• Chairs: Gunther Stuhec, Christian Huemer, Anders Tell


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ATG – Applied Technologies Group

Mandate: The purpose of the ATG is to create and maintain the United Nations trade, business and administration document structures that are deployed by a specific technology or standard, such as UN/EDIFACT, UN Layout Key, UN e-docs or XML.

Chair: Anders Graangard


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ATG Terms of Reference

Key Deliverables (excerpt):• Specific syntax schemas for

– Message structures and reusable components– Business Process Specifications

• Transformation rules for producing specific syntax based solutions

• UML profile for modelling specific syntax based solutions


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International Trade and Business Processes Group (TBG)

• The purpose of the TBG is to be responsible for the simplification of international trade procedures, business and governmental process analysis, and best practices, using the UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology, where appropriate, to support the development of trade facilitation & e-Business solutions. (TRADE/CEFACT/2004/11/Add.4)

• Chair : Jean-Luc Champion• Vice-Chair : Yong-Jae Kim


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• Ensure the release of quality technical specifications for e-business.

• Management of the UN/CEFACT information repositories and libraries for electronic business;

• Technical conformance and the registration of the UN/CEFACT business requirements specifications;

• Normalization and maintenance of the base components (building blocks for the development of standards for implementation);

• Technical conformity and registration of syntax

specific information objects and components.

Information Content Management Group (ICG)


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ICG Key Deliverables

• Output a series of coherent, consistent, normalised reference libraries comprised of:• Business requirements

• Information objects

• Code lists and more

• The audit and release of syntax specific information objects and syntax specific information components that satisfy business requirements.

• Processes & procedures for maintenance of libraries;

• Quality assurance of library contents;

• UN/ECE and UN Recommendations

• Chair: Mike Conroy


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Legal Group

• All legal aspects.• Working Group composed of individuals

knowledgeable in law and technology.• UN/CEFACT Intellectual property policy.

UN/CEFACT

Work


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UN/CEFACT Roadmap


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UN/CEFACT Technology Agnostic Approach


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UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM)

• Design time technology.• Captures the lexicon of an organization and all

aspects of their business (policy, intent etc.).• Technology agnostic - reusable over generations of

implemented technology.• Main artifacts:

– Common Business Process Catalog– Core Component Library (and other business libraries)

• Methodology to guide modelers to understand their goals.

• Derived set of artifacts can be mapped to and from UML, XML, EDI or other formats.


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Additional notes on UMM

• It is for Process Modeler's and Designers – not necessary that everybody learn about it.

• Based on the Open EDI reference model.• UMM Meta model is simple, extensible and

interoperable.


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UN/CEFACT Core Components

• “When solving a problem, you must not use the same thinking as you did when you created the problem”

A. Einstein.

• One single standard for business “transactions” for the entire world will never work!

• Technology to capture, preserve and reconcile disparate data taxonomies.

• Developers completed advanced proof of concept on 2003 (Government of Canada).


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• Core Components are building blocks of metadata.• Each Core Component captures and declares

details about a real world business concept (example – “date”)

• Designed to be re-used globally. • Design time artefacts. Could aid in building XML

schemas, UNeDocs code lists etc.• May be specialized for use within a certain context

(example – “date” becomes “OrderDate”) NOTE: “Core Component” is used herein to cover all CC terms including ACC, BCC, ABIE, BBIE

What are Core Components


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Core Component concepts

BIE


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Core Components build Business Messages at Design Time

Name

Address

email

Phone #

Company

Company

Phone #

email

Address

Name

Party

Party ID

Invoice

PO #

Line Item

Cost

CONTEXT

Date

Order.Date

Term: Business InformationEntity (BIE)


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Business process

• The choreography of activities and business logic amongst multiple actors.

• State Management.• Work inherits from UMM models.• Captures business logic at runtime.• Works with CCTS.• Project within TMG.


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UN eDocs

• United Nations Electronic Documents.

• Why - The strain that paper is putting on the international supply chain becomes greater every day:– the movement of goods is accelerating– modem containerized traffic “outruns” accompanying

documents– Must balance needs of secure supply chains with trade

facilitation– Newer technologies will automate supply chains and

challenge paper and electronic documents and procedures.

• UN eDocs solve these problems


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UN Layout Key

• Intended specifically as basis for designing aligned series of documents/forms.

• Based on the “box design” principle.• Defines a series of data elements and form objects

– basis for set of docs.• Gives documents consistent look and feel

worldwide.


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UN/Layout Key


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UN Layout Key – Box Type Data Field Example


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UN Layout Key – Column Type Data Field Example


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Questions

• Team Leaders to Identify themselves.

Thank you!

UN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.

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