Learning
Structured learning paths that connect theory with the real messages you analyse every day.
Every industry process end to end: the messages involved, the real-world example, the process flow and the associations that publish the binding rulebooks.
Industrial manufacturing
Buyers shop in the supplier's webshop and return a structured cart into their ERP for approval.
Messages
Common standards
Parties: Buyer ERP ↔ supplier shop
Practice example
An engineer configures a drive in the supplier's web shop and returns the cart to the ERP, which turns it into a regular EDI purchase order.
Typical process flow
Rule-setting bodies & associations
Verband der Automobilindustrie e. V. (VDA)
Industry association
German automotive EDI recommendations: VDA 4905 call-offs, VDA 4913 dispatch data, VDA 4902 labels and the VDA 4938 global invoice.
Rulebooks & documents
UNECE — United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)
United Nations body
Owner of the UN/EDIFACT directories, UNTDID code lists and Recommendation 20 unit codes used by every EDIFACT implementation.
Palais des Nations, 8-14 Avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Rulebooks & documents
Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12)
ANSI-accredited standards committee
North American transaction sets (850, 810, 856, 214, 837) and the HIPAA-mandated healthcare transactions.
Rulebooks & documents
Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Standards (KoSIT) — Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Public-sector coordination office
Maintains the XRechnung standard, the German CIUS of EN 16931, its business rules (BR-DE) and the validator configuration.
c/o Die Senatorin für Finanzen, Rudolf-Hilferding-Platz 1, 28195 Bremen, Deutschland
Rulebooks & documents
OpenPeppol AISBL
International non-profit association
Peppol BIS profiles, the Peppol network policy for access points and the participant identifier schemes.
Rue Belliard 40, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Rulebooks & documents
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre
European standardisation body
Owner of EN 16931 — the semantic data model and business rules behind every European e-invoice.
Rue de la Science 23, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Rulebooks & documents
OASIS Open (Universal Business Language TC)
Open standards consortium
Universal Business Language 2.1/2.4 — the XML syntax used by Peppol BIS and XRechnung UBL invoices.
P.O. Box 455, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
Rulebooks & documents