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Subject: Trade and Transport terminology was: Re: [ubl] Minutes of PacificUBL TC call 28|29 November 2005
Your comments are very timely as we have been discussing this issue within the UBL Transportation Subcommittee at length and are trying to come to some satisfactory solution that follows the terminology proposed by UN/CEFACT (see attached document and diagram). Sue Probert wrote: >By contrast the transport messages are documents exchanged between >consignor, consignee and Carrier (or Transport Supplier)within the Supply >Chain transport processes. The transport messages exchange consignment >information rather than shipment information. A consignment of goods is the >subject of a Transport Contract between the Transport Services Buyer (Buyer >or Seller depending on the agreed Terms of Delivery) and the Transport >Services Buyer. > >The relationship between shipments and consignments is very important. A >consignment can be part of a shipment, a complete shipment or multiple >shipments. The detailed level of transport documents are Goods Items which >have common Customs or Transport related characteristics. Each goods item >can consist of one or more line items. > > > As per the TBG3 guidelines we have taken Consignment to mean "A separately identifiable collection of goods items (available to be) transported from one consignor to one consignee via one or more modes of transport. One consignment = One transport contract document". and Shipment to mean "An identifiable collection of one or more line items (available to be) transported together from the seller i.e. original shipper, to the buyer i.e. ultimate consignee. Note: A shipment can be transported in different consignments" But we have a problem with the idea of Consignment as a contractual arrangement and Consignment as the physical units that are moved in one collection of goods items. Isn't it the Shipment that is the logistical collection of goods items? Just as there are cases where a Shipment can be transport different Consignments, there are cases where a Consignment (contractual) can be split for transportation into different Shipments (for economics or ease of logistics). The diagram shows this but the definitions do not. Perhaps in the terminology entries the Note: against Shipment should read "A Shipment can transport different Consigments" and another note on Consignment should say "A Consigment can be transported in different Shipments". >As shipments are related to orders as described above, there is definable >set of relationships between order, shipments and consignments and also >between goods items and line items. These relationships and the identifiers >of the different information layers e.g. consignment ref, shipment ref, >order ref, line item no and goods item etc. are vitally important in order >to provide automatic trace and track along the transport chain and also to >provide Customs organisations with the new security information which is >required for the protection of goods in transit worldwide. > > > Following the above idea allows us to identify Shipments (the logistical details) with the contractual Consignment(and Goods Items) and trade-view Orders (and Line Items) as well as Transport Equipment (critical to the new security requirements). Next week we hope to finalize the TSC proposal to the UBL TC so we welcome your views on this. -- regards tim mcgrath phone: +618 93352228 postal: po box 1289 fremantle western australia 6160 DOCUMENT ENGINEERING: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services http://www.docengineering.com/
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