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The 114th
EDIFICE Plenary was held on 15-16
June 2011 in Munich and was hosted by
Siltronic with co-sponsoring from SAP
and Crossgate.
The theme
covered:
“Integrated
Supply Chains: Achievements and a look
to the Future”
"High Tech companies have focused
on core processes (Ordering, Forecast,
Logistic data, Invoice, etc.) in their
supply chain to achieve an effective
integration level with their partners in
order to increase speed and flexibility,
reduce manual handling and cost.
Can
integrated supply chain solutions fulfill
the expectations of companies and what
are the key lessons learned to become
even better?
In the future companies
face even more cost pressures and
requirements from their customers to
provide the correct product, with the
right volume at the right time in the
right place. Hence requirements
regarding efficient and effective supply
chain processes are and will become a
key competitive advantage.
What role
will B2B (process and automation
definitions) play to support the
fulfillment of these requirements and
help companies to stay one step ahead
against their competition, using
solutions that fit any size partner?"
The meeting
featured theme presentations from
Siltronic, Infineon, Wacker, SAP, Crossgate,
Bosch, Nokia, Gartner Research and the
Upper Austria University of Applied
Sciences.
EDIFICE had the privilege of welcoming Casey
Teo of Freescale Singapore who is the
chairman of AsiaB2B.
Casey presented the special conditions
for EDIFICE members to easily involve
their peers in Asia and encourage them
to join the AsiaB2B organisation as a
member in order to contribute to its
activities. For more details
view the Offer
and send a mail to
Casey@asiaB2B or
Dora@EDIFICE.
Member
representatives and all Plenary
attendees may request a login to access
the presentation material posted
here.
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EDIFICE
Organisation:
NEW MEMBERS:
EDIFICE warmly welcomed two new member
companies:
SolveDirect and
Trubiquity.
After a short break,
Infineon rejoined
the organisation as active member.
All at EDIFICE are
looking forward to a successful and long
lasting collaboration with all new
member representatives.
ELECTIONS: The EDIFICE Directors (Chair,
Vice-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer)
serve terms of one year. The yearly
Elections for each of the functions are
spread over different plenaries to
ensure leadership continuity.
Denise Oakley
of GXS and Christiaan van der Valk
of Trustweaver were duly elected/re-elected
as Vice-Chair. Juergen Linkens of
Freescale was re-elected
for a next term as Treasurer.
Find here the
EDIFICE Directorate contacts
REPOSITORY 2011-1 ENDORSEMENT:
The
EDIFICE Repository 2011-1 was
endorsed. The new publications concern
the upgrade of all
EDIFACT MIGs to D.10A. and the
NEW Automatic Data Capture Group
guideline on "Set Label -
Identification of
Hierarchical Structured Product Data on
Product Packages".
EDIFICE
thanks all representatives who
contributed to these new publications.
All documents are are publicly and
freely available for all partners within
the industry.
FINANCE:
The
2010 Financial Audit was done by Luca
PAlermo of ST and
Mario Müller of Siltronic. The
Audit report showed a correct
administrative recording of all expenses
according to the approved 2010 year-end
report presented earlier.
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EDIFICE Activity Updates
by the Task Group
Chairmen
Below you will
find the highlights and
action points from each
group. For more details
on specific activities
please contact the
respective Task Groups
directly.
- ADC -
Automatic Data
Capture by
Erich Guenter of IBM
ADC released the
"Set Label -
Identification of
Hierarchical
Structured Product
Data on Product
Packages" guideline
in Repository 2011.
This Guideline was
created at the
request of the
Telecom Industry.
EDIFICE wishes to
amongst all
contributors
specially thank
Deloitte for their
support and taking
the lead in editing
the material.
Next topics
being worked are
guidelines for
"Product & Product
Marking in extended
Supply Chains" and
"Delivery Note".
BPA
- B2B Process Adoption
by Dane
Manes of GXS
BPA provided support
to the D.10A upgrade
work for all the
EDIFACT MIGs and
published the B2B
Cross walk (see
Repository 2011-1)
The Business
Process Integrator
(BPI) for
"Quote to Cash" is a
simplified data
model in an easy text-based
format which
provides an integration option
for SME.
BPA calls for
'Pilots' amongst
membership willing
to put the effort
into practice.
Next step will be to
promote the
applicability to
other industries and
find government
sponsors. Pilot candidates are asked
to get in touch with
EDIFICE-BPA.
It was
decided to split the
group into different
sub-groups in order
to work the details
of the different
topics on the road
map. These topics
are ROI, Modelling,
Education/Training
and any other topic
raised by
membership.
DCM-Distribution Channel
Management
by Juergen Linkens,
Freescale Semiconductor
This group has
finalised the
upgrade of all its
EDIFACT MIGs to
D.10A. The resulting
Data Maintenance
Requests will be
submitted to the
EDIFACT board
shortly.
Membership is asked
to raise any DCM
related topics they
might have and join
the monthly
conference calls on
the 1st Friday of
each month.
BILL -
eInvoicing by Tony
Nisbett, IBM
The eInvoicing TG
held a very
successful meeting
on the day preceding
the Plenary. Tony
presented the
CEN/ISSS eInvoicing
status that will
publish its Phase
III deliverables in
August 2011.
An important topic
is around Compliance
in eInvoicing. The
group decided to
create a new
deliverable in the
format of a
"eInvoicing self-assessment/gap
analysis" tool. The
scope will cover
entities,
geographies,
transactions, lines
of business, ERPs,
specific
customer/supplier
requests,... and
will include a
Service Provider
assessment.
The
Draft deliverable
will be presented at
November Plenary.
All member
representatives
interested to
contribute to this
action item are
asked to get in
touch with the
secretariat.
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Thank
you
(LtoR) Hugh
Thomas-Davies
Crossgate, Mario
Müller Siltronic,
Petra Frenzel SAP,
Boudewijn Janssen
Amkor Technology
Boudewijn Janssen
thanked Mario Müller
and Siltronic for
hosting the
114th Plenary
meeting at their
premises in Munich.
Special thanks go to
Katharina and Claire of
Wacker for
coordinating the
overall logistics
provisions at
Wacker/Siltronic. More thanks
go to Petra Frenzel and
Rainer Jahraus of
SAP and Lutz Jaeger of
Crossgate for the sponsoring
of the splendid 25ht Anniversary
Dinner at Seehaus.
EDIFICE wishes to thank all
the speakers for their
outstanding performance
and the EDIFICE
membership and Observers
for their participation
and great support.
(LtoR) Daniela
Huber, Ulrich Schlummer,
Ryan Rhoades, Beatrice
Köhler, Simon Hardy,
Matthias Gehrken,
Boudewijn Janssen,
Dietmar Nedbal
Siltronic
and EDIFICE
welcomed 80+ Participants
from 41 different
organisations.
We herewith encourage
the Observer companies
present in Munich to
envisage taking more
active part in the
EDIFICE Network 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
115th Plenary
This event is being
hosted by IBM/Sterling
Commerce on
November 9-10, 2011 in
London. The Theme will be
announced shortly.
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The EDIFICE Directors
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