Re: [ubl] Proposal for UBL 2.0 Extended Procurement Process Model

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

Thank you very much for your ideas.

These have been incorporated into the latest version of the document. I
have a personal view on your final suggestion (see below).

Yukinori Saito wrote:

>Dear Tim McGrath,
>Thank you very much for your sending extended procurement process model.
>I have read your document.
>The followings are my comments.
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<snipped>

>3. Comments regarding the next document assembly stage.
>More 10 business documents will be added to the current 8 UBL business
>documents. Finally, the number of UBL business documents will be 18.
>Furthermore, many common reusable BIEs will be designed.
>If the additional common reusable BIEs will be added to the current Reusable
>BIEs (V1.0), I am afraid that the extended reusable library would become
>much bigger and difficult for users to manage and reuse.
>Even though these extended business processes and business documents are in
>the procurement process, the common reusable BIEs would be better to be
>modular to get better handling.
>For example: The procurement common reusable BIEs will be categorized and
>divided to the following 3 modules (spreadsheets), it would be much better
>to handle.
>- Sourcing common BIEs
>- Ordering (and Fulfillment) common BIEs (almost same to the current
>Reusable BIEs)
>- Billing and Payment common BIEs
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>
You should see from the minutes of the Pacific call this week that we
have decided to adopt the three layer hierarchy as presented in your paper
(with some chnages in terminology).

Having finally settled on adopting separate spreadsheets for
"procurement" and "tranportation", i suspect any further granularity
will be too contentious for our timeframe. But, of course, we may
revisit this when the models are built.

>Best Regards,
>Yukinori Saito
>-------------------------------------------
>Yukinori Saito
>Fuji Electric Information Service Co., Ltd. (FIS)
>e-mail: saito-yukinori@fujielectric.co.jp
>Tel: +81-3-5435-7333     Fax: +81-3-5435-7513
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>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tim McGrath" <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>
>To: <ubl@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 6:53 PM
>Subject: [ubl] Proposal for UBL 2.0 Extended Procurement Process Model
>
>
>Please find attached the final draft of the proposed extended
>procurement process model document.  This has been prepared by the UBL
>European Collaboration team, comprising of participants from several
>European Governments as well as the European Commission itself.  It
>incorporates the updates requested after an earlier draft was presented
>in April 2005.
>
>The document describes the overall process model proposed for UBL 2.0
>procurement as well as the principle of modeling Parties and their roles
>in this process.
>
>Please review this document this week as we would like to sign off its
>content, add it to the UBL 2.0 Issues List and move into the design and
>document assembly stage next week.
>
>We will discuss this on this week's European/Asia working session
>(Wednesday 0800 UTC) and/or you may wish to send comments directly to
>the list.
>
>  
>

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