RE: [ebxml-dev] Global Commerce Initiative?

[David Frenkel <frenkel@worldnet.att.net>]

Here a link to CPFR: www.cpfr.org

Regards,

David Frenkel
Business Development
GEFEG USA
Global Leader in Ecommerce Tools
www.gefeg.com
425-260-5030

-----Original Message-----
From: White,Andrew [mailto:andrew.white@gartner.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:11 AM
To: 'ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org'
Subject: RE: [ebxml-dev] Global Commerce Initiative?

Just some other perspectives:

CPFR, and GCI, is far more than "retail".  It is retail and its
supplier,
both intermediate (distributors, wholesalers) and manufacturers.  CPFR
is
also a buy-side and sell-side multi-enterprise business process, unlike
most
other B2B processes.  For consumer goods/retail, globally, CPFR is one
of
the most advanced XML-based standards supported business processes -
unlike
anything EDI ever did.  

CPFR was not a high priority for GCI when it started but it is now.
They
started by seeking to make "EDI global" and realized that CPFR is new
and
has no legacy to replace.

The article talks about "point to point" and I have been talking about
Peer
to Peer interoperability now for 4 years or more.  I don't think the
article
gets to the key point here and stops rather short of the real future and
the
path to get there; though it does introduce some of the main issues.
Interoperability as you know is not the same as integration.

The VICS Internet Committee (a sister group to the CPFR group) published
a
reference model of Internet standards last fall. It recommends ebXML
Messaging. ebXML messaging is very important because it is the only
public
specification that offers "once-and-only-once" reliable message delivery
as
an option. As an alternative (recognizing that ebXML products were only
just
coming to market at that time), the model also endorses IETF EDIINT AS2
as a
data transport mechanism, though it lacks this level of reliability
guarantee. EDIINT AS2 was used in the (just completed) CPFR
interoperability
test.

Andrew White



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrzej Jan Taramina [mailto:andrzej@chaeron.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:27 AM
To: ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org
Subject: [ebxml-dev] Global Commerce Initiative?


From an article in InfoWorld:

> But further out is the Global Commerce Initiative, a voluntary
> organization of retailers supporting universal data synchronization.
> "The Global Commerce Initiative is the next big step for supply-chain
> collaboration. A lot of people are working on GCI. It is expected to
> happen in the next few years," Green says. 
> 
> Duker says P&G is working for the initiative with UCCNet, a subsidiary
> of the Uniform Code Council, a global standards organization. "A lot
of
> work is going on in the GCI," Duker says. "We are trying to give the
> standards bodies input." 

The full article can be found here:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ct/xml/02/11/04/021104ctcpg.xml

and discusses CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and 
Replenishment) in the retail world.

I am curious as to whether the GCI initiative has any ebXML
participation or

content?

Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com


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