X12 I Transportation Subcommittee Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Nashville, TN Control # ASC X12I/2005-6 Open Chairman Doug Anderson, Kleinschmidt, called the meeting to order at 8:00 on Wednesday February 9, 2004. Twenty-four meeting participants introduced themselves, and approved the minutes from the October 2004 meeting in Miami, FL. Task Group Reports Task group chairs gave the following reports: TG 1 XML TG 1 chair June Arnold, BNSF Railway Company, reported that TG1 had reviewed the latest release of X12.7, and approved it, adding a recommendation that X12C clarify the document to require leading zeros when a numeric suffix is appended to a construct name. Ms. Arnold briefed the participants on CICA development in other subcommittees, and led a spirited discussion regarding the need for, and current lack of CICA development tools. TG 2 Air TG 2 did not meet TG 3 Motor TG 3 chair Bill Lohse, ABF/Data-Tronics, called the meeting to order Monday 4 October at 09:00. Sixteen participants introduced themselves and approved the minutes from the last meeting in June. Sue Donarski, Schneider, provided an update on the XML work underway at GS1 (formerly UCC/EAN). GS1 recently announced a policy clarification that GS1 members who are not also members of UCC do not have voting rights within GS1. Most transportation carriers (and financial institutions) are not UCC member, because they do not manufacture products, and therefore have no need to create and assign UPC and GTIN product codes, the major benefit of being a UCC member. Several GS1 members are appealing this new interpretation. Frank Napoli, LMI, gave updates on the NIT League ITAC and DoD Motor ACI committee.
Don Kozacki, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), gave an update on the Customs multi-modal manifest process at Blaine, WA. Chris Driscoll, ATA/TMC, provided an update on publication of the ATA 5010 implementation guide and TMC s upcoming annual meeting in Tampa, FL. Dana Morton, FedEx, provided and update on CICA activities across X12. Mr. Anderson provided a steering committee update. The task group reviewed sixteen referred DMs with the following disposition: Approved as modified 1 Deferred 10 Disapproved 3. TG 4 Ocean TG4 did not meet TG 5 Rail TG5 chair Pete Varone, RailInc, reported the task group reviewed 16 referred DMs with the following disposition: Deferred 12 Disapproved 2 The task group reviewed BNSF Railway Company s project to automate their Service Invoices, and determined that the 424 Rail Carrier Services Settlement transaction set was designed with this functionality in mind. BNSF Railway Company has agreed to review the content of this transaction set and if necessary submit data maintenance to further enhance transaction set functionality to meet their business need. TG 6 Technical Review TG 6 chair Tom Bolling, Norfolk Southern, convened TG6, Technical Review, on Tuesday, 8 February at 10:30, to review sixteen referred Data Maintenance requests. Final disposition was: Approved as modified 4 Deferred 10.
TG 7 Information and Procedures Acting TG 7 chair Doug Anderson, Kleinschmidt, called the meeting to order on Wednesday 9 February at 07:30. Members requested no room or schedule changes for the next trimester meeting. Mr. Anderson provided a steering committee update, which led to a discussion of the need for CICA development tools. TG 8 Travel and Tourism TG 8 did not meet TG 9 Customs Chairman Kim Santos, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), convened TG 9 - Customs on Tuesday, 8 February 2005 at 9:00 AM CST. Twenty-seven attendees participated. The task group reviewed three DMs and approved them as modified. Mr. Santos briefed the attendees on upcoming changes to Sea Manifest for seal concurrence from the ocean carriers, a new Foreign Trade Zone admission application and house bill of lading in Rail AMS. Mr. Santos also provided an update on the CBP ACE/eCP truck manifest. TG 10 Multimodal TG 10 did not meet TG 11 Logistics TG 11 did not meet. UN/CEFACT/ebXML Update Verna Schultz, RailInc, reported that UN/CEFACT s harmonization committee (TBG 17) has released a new core component harmonization report (dubbed Bigfoot ) that t hey created using GEFEG s EDIFIX tool. She explained that Bigfoot harmonizes entries in the UN Trade Date Element Dictionary with core component submissions from other sources; she went on to say that the core components developed by X12 before the dissolution of the joint core components working group are in the Trade Data Element dictionary. X12 Syntax Sets Update Mr. Anderson reported there are no new transaction sets (TSs) currently under development, but the 359 TS is still pending. Ms. Schultz reported more work is needed to the looping structure before it will be ready for review. This TS will enable carriers to update their company profile information in CBP s ACE system. That functionality is currently available via CBP s online web portal or by use of a highly customized MEDPID (EDIFACT) TS. Ms. Schultz said she is not aware that a formal DM for this work has been submitted to TAS yet. She added that a similar effort is underway to
develop a new EDIFACT transaction to replace the highly customizedmedpid that CBP currently uses. CICA XML Update Ms. Arnold reported that TG1 hopes to complete revision of the interested party module and resubmit it to TAS at this meeting. So far at this meeting, TG1 has revised 127 construct descriptions in the module. The task group has not completed work on other parts of the Status message, spending all of their work time so far on the Interested Party module. They have found that the Access-based development tool Ms. Arnold created has increased their productivity, and they hope to complete work on the Status Message in time to submit it to TAS at the next trimester meeting. TG1/WG2 chair Dana Morton, FedEx, reported their work group has not met yet this week, all XML time having been applied to the interested Party module work. Ms. Arnold reported that DISA had entered X12N s CICA work into the CICA DB as of Tuesday, and they expected to complete entry of X12F s work into the DB by Thursday. New Work Projects Mr. Anderson reported there are no new work projects under consideration. Steering Committee Update Mr. Anderson provided an update from the Steering committee: The chair and vice-chair of X12 will be up for re-election in October 2005. Anyone wishing to enter a name into nomination should contact Mr. Anderson. X12 has been funding DISA participation at USTAG154; this participation will become self-funding. The Steering committee announced it would hold an interim meeting to discuss strategic plans. Mr. Anderson will participate on a Steering committee work group to review budgetary expenditures. ANSI has notified X12 that there is a problem with our Operational Procedures Manual (OPM), and the steering committee is working to resolve the issue. Mr. Anderson reported he has continued to emphasize to the steering committee that task groups desperately need CICA development tools. At Mr. Anderson s request, Brian Finale, UPS, briefed the steering committee on the need for tools, after which the committee committed to: o hold an open meeting at 2:00 PM today (Wednesday, February 9, 2005) to gather requirements for a developers tool, o consolidate the list of requirements and pass them to DISA this week, and o ask DISA to provide a timeline for development of the tool by next week.
TAS has approved the latest revision of X12.7, which includes the leading zeros for numerics appended to CICA construct names. Due to low participation at X12H and M, the Steering committee has proposed combining subcommittee M (Procurement and Distribution) with subcommittee H (Materials Management) and renaming the new subcommittee Supply Chain. Several steering committee members raised objections to that name based on Transportation being a part of the supply chain but not being included in the subcommittee. A discussion within X12I ensued regarding the purpose and scope of the combined subcommittee, and Bill Lohse, ABF Freight, proposed a motion: X12I recommends that the steering committee adopt a name other than Supply Chain for the proposed new subcommittee resulting from combining X12H and X12M. X12I unanimously approved the motion. Jerry Connors, president of DISA will attend the X12I/TG1 meeting at 13:30 this afternoon to discuss CICA tools with the task group members. X12 membership is down 30 members from last year; there has been an increase of more than 30 States becoming X12 members, apparently because of the new lower membership rates for State governments. Subcommittee N (Insurance) has proposed changes to Standing Document 2 (SD2) related to Technical Report 3 (TR3 -- Implementation Guides); there have been some objections raised that the steering committee is working to resolve. Old Business There was no old business. New Business There was no old business. Adjournment Mr. Anderson adjourned the meeting at 8:35 AM CST. Respectfully submitted, Frank B. Napoli, X12I Secretary