UN/CEFACT Cross Industry Invoice (CII) CEN TC434 Meeting Lance THOMPSON Chief, UN/CEFACT Support Unit UNECE Date: 23 Oct 2017, Brussels
UN/CEFACT UN Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business 2
UN/CEFACT Objectives Simple, transparent and effective processes for global business Efficient and automated exchange of information Outputs Global Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Recommendations and Standards Means Public Private Sector Partnership over 400 experts from government and business Meet virtually every week plus two Forums per year UN UN/ECOSOC UN/ECE UN/CEFACT Global Remit 3
UN/CEFACT Mission UN/CEFACT s mission is to improve the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively. Its principal focus is on facilitating national and international transactions, through the simplification and harmonization of processes, procedures and information flows, and so contribute to the growth of global commerce 4
Buy Ship Pay (BSP) Model BUY Prepare for Export SHIP Export Transport PAY Prepare for Import Import INVOLVES Commercial Procedures Transport Procedures Establish Contract Order Goods Advise On Delivery Request Payment Packing Inspection Certification Accreditation Warehousing Establish Transport Contract Collect, Transport and Deliver Goods Provide Waybills, Goods Receipts Status reports etc. Regulatory Procedures Financial Procedures Obtain Import/Export Licences etc Provide Customs Declarations Provide Cargo Declaration Apply Trade Security Procedures Clear Goods for Export/Import Provide Credit Rating Provide Insurance Provide Finance Execute Payment Issue Statements 5
Trade Facilitation TRADE FACILITATION Simplification Process of eliminating all unnecessary elements and duplications in formalities, processes and procedures Harmonization Alignment of national procedures, operations and documents with international conventions, standards and practices Standardization Process of developing internationally agreed formats for practices and procedures, documents and information 6
UN/CEFACT Outputs 7
UN/CEFACT Main Outputs Internationally developed and agreed Recommendations Internationally developed and agreed Standards Common Libraries Common Directories 8
Trade Facilitation Recommendations Rec1 UN Layout Key for Trade Documents (recently revised) Rec4 National Trade Facilitation Bodies (recently revised) Rec6 Aligned Invoice Layout Key for International Trade Rec8 Unique Identification Code Methodology UNIC Rec11 Documentary Aspects of the Transport of Dangerous Goods Rec12 Measures to Facilitate Maritime Transport Documents Procedures Rec13 Facilitation of Identified Legal Problems in Import Clearance Procedures Rec14 Authentication of Trade Documents (recently revised) Rec15 Simpler Shipping Marks Rec16 LOCODE Code for Trade and Transport Locations (soon to be revised) Rec18 Facilitation Measures Related to International Trade Procedures Rec22 Layout Key for Standard Consignment Instructions Rec25 Use of the UN Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport Standard (UN/EDIFACT) Rec26 The Commercial Use of Interchange Agreements for Electronic Data Interchange Rec27 Preshipment Inspection Rec40 Consultation Approaches Rec41 Public Private Partnerships in Trade Facilitation 9
Single Window Recommendations Rec33 Single Window Recommendation Rec34 Data Simplification and Standardization for International Trade Rec35 Establishing a legal framework for international trade Single Window Rec36 Single Window Interoperability Technical Note on terminology for Single Window and other electronic platforms Work in progress: Recommendation Project on Core Principles of Single Window Operations Single Submission Portal Project 10
Code Lists Rec 7 Date Formats Rec 8 UNIC Rec 5 INCOTERMS Rec 16 UN/Locode Rec 28 Rec 3 Country Codes Means of Transport Rec 19 Rec 9 Currency Code Mode of Transport Rec 21 Package Codes Rec 15 Shipping Marks Commodity Code Rec 24 Status Codes Other EDIFACT Code Lists Rec 20 Units of Measurement 11
Standardizing Business Processes and Data UN/ISCRM Int l Supply Chain Ref. Model Processes harmonized with all other existing business processes BRS Business Requirement Specification Creates a high-level semantic description of business processes Who? ; When? What business process? CCBDA Core Component Business Document Assembly Creates a subset of the CCL with the corresponding RSM which will reply to this business process UN/CCL Core Component Library UNTDED RSM Requirements Specification Mappings Defines the data elements which are to be exchanged in a business process What data for this business process? All of the data elements (as well as the data elements in their business context) are entered into this semantic library UN/EDIFACT Data harmonized with all other existing business processes UMM CCTS UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology Core Component Technical Specification Explains how to create new models and their relations within the ISCRM library Explains how to create new data elements and their relations within the CCL library UN/XML NDR Naming & Design Rules Defines how to create a sample XML schema from the UN/CCL 12
UN/CEFACT Structure and Project Development 13
UN/CEFACT Structure Estelle IGWE Raffaele FANTETTI ITP PDA Int l Trade Procedures Single Window TFA Focal Point Buy/Pay PDA SupplyChain & Procuremt Finance & Payment Accounting / Audit Anders GRANGÅRD Ian WATT Colin LAUGHLAN M+T PDA Harmonizati on PDA Communicat ion PDA Specificat Sue PROBERT Ship PDA Transport & Logistics Insurance Harm Jan VAN BURG Regulatory PDA Sectoral PDA CrossCustoms Border Mgmt Agriculture Fisheries & Agri food egovernmt Travel & Tourism Harmonizat Project Review & Support UNLOCODE Focal Point Library Tahseen KHAN BRS/RSM ISCRM Maintenance (UMM Harmonization) Syntax Validation Communicat Committee Environmt Mgmt TFIG Focal Point Utilities 14
Open Development Process (ODP) Project proposals submitted by plenary delegation, an existing project team or a member of the Bureau Need support of 3 Heads of Delegation Approval by UN/CEFACT Bureau Work undertaken by UN/CEFACT Experts (from public and private sector) 15
Open Development Process (ODP) 1) Inception: After Bureau s approval, Call for Participation sent out by project leader 2) Requirements Gathering: initial contributions collected in a comments log 3) Interim Draft: draft-projects circulated for comments 4) Public Reviews: minimum 60 days from publication on UN/CEFACT website 5) Project Exit: Each project must go through a final quality assurance exercise to verify that the final draft has addressed all the stated requirements of the project. The conclusion of this process is Bureau or Plenary Approval and then Publication. 6) Publication: Final drafts published as UNECE documents 7) Maintenance: changes requested by implementers may lead to new projects 16
Approval Process Recommendations submitted to UN/CEFACT Plenary for approval by Member States Standards are approved by the Bureau within the context of the Programme of Work All UN member States can participate 17
Collaborative UN/CEFACT Environment (CUE) 18
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UN/CEFACT Cross Industry Invoice (CII) 20
Cross Industry Invoice (CII) Maximum data-set invoice which covers multiple sectors and multiple types of commodities Part of a group of messages called the Cross-Industry family of deliverables. Based on Core Component Library (CCL) Semantic base definitions compatible with all other UN/CEFACT deliverables And compatible with other organizations that are compliant with CCL: WCO, IATA, GS1 21
Related projects Status 1. Supply Chain Reference Data Model Project (SCRDM) Completed 2. Multi Modal Transport (MMT) Draft 3. Extension of Cross Industry Invoice technical artefacts Completed 4. Extension of Cross Industry Cataloguing, Quotation, Ordering, Delivering and Remittance Advice technical artefacts 5. Procedures for Reference Data Model & associated artefacts publication Draft Completed 6. Data Pipeline Carrier Draft 7. CII-BRS Repository Draft 8. Code Management Project Draft 22
Reference Data Model we did not try to fix the 400 year old road infrastructure in our cities we created super highways to support physical movement similarly we have now developed Reference Data Models for defining required Process Driven information flows to be exchanged along super highways for information 23
SCRDM contextualized Reference BIE example RDM Reference BIE e.g. Header Trade Agreement Processes Cataloguing Quotation Ordering Delivery Invoicing Remittance Scheduling CCBDA (Core Component Business Document Assembly) Data Exchange Structures e.g. complete documents or snippets 24
More information All UNECE and UN/CEFACT Recommendations, codes, standards and publications are available for free on our websites at: www.unece.org/cefact/ tfig.unece.org All experts are welcome to join the standards development work free of charge 25
Thank you for your attention! Lance THOMPSON lance.thompson@unece.org Chief, UN/CEFACT Support Unit UNECE Date: 23 Oct 2017, Brussels