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Subject: RE: [ubl-dev] Catalog examples
Alexander, Most of the real-world experience is found among those who do supplier "on boarding"/integration. A Gartner document on third party companies doing integration/interoperability services is at http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/gxs/157093.html . Most currently do earlier versions of UBL's predecessor standard - xCBL. There are specialty companies that do supplier/catalog on-boarding for particular industries - for example, see Quadrem (targeted at the mining industry). The now defunct company CommerceOne pretty well swept the third party marketplace industry, so xCBL is prevalent. http://www.quadrem.com/quadrem32/files/ccLibraryFiles/Filename/000000000819/ SAP_WP_1206.pdf SAP and SAP users have a lot of experience, probably mostly with xCBL and a key subset of xCBL, OCI (open catalog interface). For example, see https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/index?rid=/webcontent/uuid/ff03d072-0501-001 0-aa88-8018506a2ebe&prtmode=print Note that OCI has to do with "realtime" access to supplier catalogs through "Roundtrip" often termed "Punchout"). Below is a sample OCI catalog response. It may be that the company operating the inventory process to which you are integrating has some prior relationships to one or another of these "on-boarding" processes. The XML is all, from a human perspective, substantively pretty much the same. Obviously it may parse differently or embody different data standards or business rules that in some way is fatal to machine interoperability. Fulton Wilcox Colts Neck Solutions LLC <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> - <BusinessDocument> - <Catalog> - <Product ProductType="Service"> <CatalogKey>1ab23</CatalogKey> <ParentCategoryID>LOCAL2</ParentCategoryID> <Description>Installation of Hard Disks</Description> - <ShoppingBasketItem RefVendorDescription="0"> <Quantity UoM="HUR">5.3</Quantity> - <NetPrice> <Price Currency="USD">900</Price> <PriceUnit>8</PriceUnit> </NetPrice> <LeadTime>10</LeadTime> - <Quote> <QuoteID>4711A</QuoteID> <QuoteItemID>1</QuoteItemID> </Quote> <ItemText Language="EN">Only basic installation is included. 6 months warranty.</ItemText> </ShoppingBasketItem> - <VendorDescription ID="0"> <PartnerProductID Code="Other">648570</PartnerProductID> <PartnerID Code="Other">405995</PartnerID> </VendorDescription> </Product> - <Product ProductType="Good"> <ProductID Code="Buyer">CER02</ProductID> <CatalogKey>22222</CatalogKey> - <ShoppingBasketItem RefVendorDescription="2" RefManufacturerDescription="3"> <Quantity UoM="PCE">52</Quantity> - <NetPrice> <Price Currency="EUR">800</Price> <PriceUnit>10</PriceUnit> </NetPrice> <LeadTime>10</LeadTime> - <Quote> <QuoteID>4711A</QuoteID> <QuoteItemID>2</QuoteItemID> </Quote> </ShoppingBasketItem> - <ManufacturerDescription ID="3"> <PartnerProductID Code="Other">222</PartnerProductID> <PartnerID Code="Other">405992</PartnerID> </ManufacturerDescription> - <VendorDescription ID="2"> <PartnerProductID Code="Other">12345</PartnerProductID> <PartnerID Code="Other">405990</PartnerID> </VendorDescription> </Product> - <Product ProductType="Good"> <CatalogKey>33333</CatalogKey> <Description Language="EN">Palm Pilot (the third item)</Description> - <ShoppingBasketItem RefManufacturerDescription="4"> <Quantity UoM="EA">73</Quantity> - <NetPrice> <Price Currency="GBP">225</Price> </NetPrice> <LeadTime>13</LeadTime> <Quote /> <ItemText Language="EN">The award-winning Palm Computing organizers, designed as companion products to personal computers, enable mobile users to manage their schedules, contacts and other critical personal and business information on their desktops and remotely. Palm Computing organizers automatically synchronize their information's with a personal computer locally or over a local or wide area network at the touch of a button. Their most distinguishing features include shirt-pocket size, instant response, an elegant graphical user interface and an innovative desktop docking cradle which facilitates two way synchronization between the PC and organizer.</ItemText> </ShoppingBasketItem> - <ManufacturerDescription ID="4"> <PartnerProductID Code="Other">12345</PartnerProductID> <PartnerID Code="Other">405992</PartnerID> </ManufacturerDescription> </Product> </Catalog> </BusinessDocument> -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Whillas [mailto:whillas@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 6:38 AM Cc: ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Catalog examples So, more business rules and exactly the same XML?
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