UN/CEFACT

The current practice of the exchange of business documents by means of telecommunications – 65 usually defined as e-Business presents a major opportunity to improve the competitiveness of 66 companies, especially for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME).

The purpose of this document is to define globally consistent invoicing processes for the worldwide supply chains, using the UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM) approach and Unified Modelling Language to describe and detail the business processes and transactions involved.

This BRS details the requirements for the Scheduling processes. The scheduling process supports various demand and supply modes, such as Kanban, Synchronized, MRP or VMI (CPFR).

Specification that describes the business process and requirements for the invoicing process. The invoicing process is used to exchange the invoice between the supplier and the for the supply of goods or services ordered, delivered, received, consumed, etc. This document describes the variants of invoicing in use in trade and industry. It considers the legal statements and, to a certain extent, the corrections of a previously sent invoice, by using credit notes or debit notes.

This section describes the extent and limits of the business processes within the supply chain being described in this document. Each industry may specify, based on the BRS of the cross industry catalogue processes, its industry specific use of the catalogue message and the business processes. It also allows for industry specific functionality on details to describe a specific product. Name/Value pairs in the catalogue documents allows the Catalogue Provider to add attributes to further specify their products in the existing structure. If further elaboration is needed an industryspecific ontology can be made. Industry specific ontology is outside the scope of this BRS

Specification that describes the business processes and requirements for the ordering process.

The ordering process is used to agree on delivery and payment of goods or services between the supplier and the customer.
This document describes the process how to reach agreement. 

Specification that describes the business processes and requirements for the Quotation process. This section describes the extent and limits of the business process within the supply chain being described in this document. The class diagram of the Quotation business information is developed in such as way that it specifies the supply chain reusable business information entities.

Business Requirement Specification for the sourcing of Market Survey results, using the UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM) approach and Unified Modelling Language to describe and detail the business processes and transactions involved.

A Market Research project typically initiated in a setting where the need for certain information is identified, either by a MR company, by a producer or marketer of goods or services, or by an official institution, university etc. This starts a process of more exact definition of the information needs.

The definition process is often iterative, and may involve many parties. The responsible party for the process is appointed (own organization or sub-contractor When this process is concluded, the information search process starts, i.e. the Sourcing of Marker Survey Information. This may involve different search methods. The results of the search process are evaluated.

This document describes the extent and limits of the business process within the information chain.
The class diagram of export certification has been developed to specify the cross border exchange of information to enable business information entities to be re-used. It includes business information entities specifically required by government regulators to describe products being traded and aid the transfer of information from an export certificate system to an import clearance system. Document : BRS – E-cert Page : 5 of 29 This document describes the electronic exchange of export certificate data between government regulators to facilitate cross border entry of agricultural products.

This document describes the extent and limits of the business process within the information chain being described in this document. The class diagram of the data exchange proxy is developed such as way that it specifies all information of data exchange proxy given by the agricultural party, reusable business information entities.

The Quotation process is used by a customer to obtain an offer from a potential supplier for the delivery of products or services. During the Quotation process either party may reject the conditions proposed. The Quotation is then not accepted and neither party has residual obligations. For reasons of compatibility with existing practices the Customer may in his rejection include suggestions on conditions that would be acceptable for him. Again, the use of this feature is not preferred.