Transcript CIDX Overview - UN/CEFACT Forum

CIDX Overview
UN/CEFACT Forum
2006-03-14  Vancouver Canada
Jim Wilson  CIDX Chief Architect
© 2006 Chemical Industry Data Exchange
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Agenda
• Mission & Organization
• Standards Development
• Perspectives on the Standards Landscape
• Perspectives on UN/CEFACT
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CIDX Mission
CIDX is a global non-profit trade association
whose mission is to
improve the ease, speed and cost
of securely conducting business electronically
between chemical companies
and with their trading partners.
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CIDX Membership
• Membership is open to all companies
that operate in the chemical sector
• Three membership classes:
– Principal – primary business is chemicals
– Associate – support the chemical
industry
– Affiliate – not-for-profit industry
associations
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Principal Members
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Air Products and Chemicals
ARKEMA
Ashland
BASF
Bayer
Borealis
BP Chemicals
Cabot corporation
Celanese AG/Ticona
ChemCentral
Chevron Phillips Chemical
Clariant International Ltd.
Dow Corning
E. I. DuPont de Nemours
Eastman Chemical Company
Elemica
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ExxonMobil Chemical
FMC Corporation
Kerr-McGee Chemical, LLC
Lubrizol Corporation
Lyondell Chemical Company
Nova Chemicals
Occidental Chemical
Olin Chlor Alkali Products
PPG Industries
Rhodia
Rohm & Haas Company
Shell Chemical LP
Solutia
Stephan Company
The Dow Chemical Company
Univar
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Associate Members
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Aspen Technology
Cisco
CSC
Diamond
Technologies
Global Logistic
Technologies
Hoyer GmBH
IBM
Infosys
Technologies
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Inovis
Intelligroup
Oracle
OSIsoft, Inc.
Rex
SAP
SeeBeyond
Technology Corp.
• Trade-Ranger
• WebMethods
• WERCS, Ltd.
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Affilate Members
• Japan Petrochemical Association
(JPCA)
• Petroleum Industry Data Exchange
(PIDX)
• RAPID (North American Crop-Input
eBusiness Standards Organization)
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Board of Directors
Ashland, Inc.
Thomas Fannon
Director, Distr. Strategy
CIDX Board Chairman
Cabot Corporation
Randall Carter
CIO
Elemica
Scott DuFour
Sr. VP Integration Solutions
BASF AG
Herbert Fisch
Director, eCommerce Global
The Dow Chemical
Company
Paula Tolliver
Rohm & Haas
Tony D’Alessandro
Director, Global Systems
& Information Services
Bayer Polymers Material
Science
Helmut Hegger
VP, Process Enablement
& Improvement
Dow Corning
Abbe Mulders
CIO
CIDX Board Vice Chairman
Univar USA
Mark Spranger
Director, Application
Development
DuPont Company
Ralph Paulus
CIO DuPont Engineering
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Management Team
• JoAnne Norton, Executive Director
(on-loan executive from DuPont)
• Ken Hutcheson, Standards Director
• Jim Wilson, Chief Architect
• Sarah Mayer, Operations Director
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Services
• Marketing & Communications:
The Champion Agency
• Meeting Planning & Finance:
SmithBucklin & Associates
• Legal Council:
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
• Website & Related Info. Services:
KCX Inc.
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Agenda
• Mission & Organization
• Standards Development
• Perspectives on the Standards Landscape
• Perspectives on UN/CEFACT
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Guiding Principles
• Global XML-based informationexchange standards
• Open and platform independent
• Unrestricted access (no licensing
fees)
• Leverages work from other industries
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Strategic Intent
• Ensuring the Chem eStandards are the
standards for enabling eBusiness in the chemical
industry.
• Leading convergence of the Chem eStandards
with the eBusiness standards of key trading
industries.
• Serving as the voice of the industry representing
the chemical industry in development of crossindustry standards
• Serving as the center of excellence for continued
development, support, and education to meet the
chemical industry’s evolving eBusiness needs.
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Long-Term Objectives
• CIDX will develop and maintain
message standards and business
process guidelines for common business
processes
• CIDX will investigate and implement new
eBusiness technology as needed by the
Chemical Sector
• CIDX will facilitate adoption and
implementation of Chem eStandards
globally.
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Recent Accomplishments
• RFID framing project (with white
paper)
• Technology Plan
• Logistics business process guidelines
development (phase 1)
• Order-to-cash business process
guidelines development (phase 2)
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30-Second Demos
• Business Process Standards
• XML Schemas
– XSD
– HTML
– Excel
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2006 Activities
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RFID project
Core component framing project
Web services framing project
Logistics business process guidelines
project (phase 2)
• Order-to-cash business process
guidelines project (phase 3)
• Supply chain collaboration business
process guidelines project (phase 2)
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Agenda
• Mission & Organization
• Standards Development
• Perspectives on the Standards
Landscape
• Perspectives on UN/CEFACT
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What CIDX Members Want
• To enable eConnectivity with trading
partners outside the chemical
industry (consistent with mission)
• To collaborate with other vertical
industry standards organizations,
harmonizing methodologies, where
possible (e.g., CEFACT NDR)
• To contribute to horizontal standards
organizations
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Vertical Industry Collaboration
• AIAG and their industry partners
(automotive)
• ACORD (insurance)
• PIDX (petroleum)
• GS1 (consumer packaged goods;
GUSI)
• JPCA (Japanese chemical industry)
• RAPID (North American crop-input)
• RosettaNet (electronics)
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Horizontal Standards Participation
• UN/CEFACT: contributing (more on
separate slide)
• WS-I: CIDX just joined
• OASIS: watching closely for WS-*
standards and business process-related
standards
• OMG: supportive of TMG’s collaboration
through the MRI initiative, but not
participating
• X12: monitoring
• W3C: monitoring
• OAGi: encouraged by their work with AIAG
and commitment to core components
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Agenda
• Mission & Organization
• Standards Development
• Perspectives on the Standards Landscape
• Perspectives on UN/CEFACT
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Perspectives on UN/CEFACT I
• Noted improvement over past two
years
• Very important work taking place
– Business process
– Core component standardization
– XML Schema Naming & Design Rules
• Core component harmonization
– TBG business experts and vertical
industry participation in harmonization is
crucial to core component success
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Perspectives on UN/CEFACT II
• Must resolve IPR issue very soon
– The chemical industry needs its key
vendors to commit themselves to
CEFACT
• A working registry is critical for the
success of core components
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Thank You
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