Re: Report from the NAPM meeting in Phoenix Jan 23

[Dieter@isodraw.de (Dieter Weidenbrueck)]

Kevin,

thanks for representing CGM Open at that meeting. Perhaps they develop a
need in the future once they want to illustrate what they sell...

Dieter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin O'Kane" <kevoka@AUTO-TROL.com>
To: <cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: Report from the NAPM meeting in Phoenix Jan 23


> All-
>
> The National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM) had requested a
> representative from CGM Open to attend an NAPM meeting in Phoenix Az  to
> kick off an XML initiative. I attended this meeting on Jan. 23. Also in
> attendance was Laura Walker from OASIS.
>
> The purpose of the meeting was to assemble interested members of NAPM and
> software vendors to develop a set of requirements for the non-direct
> procurement process. Non-direct procurement means the procurement of goods
> and services that do not directly go into the products a company sells.
> These requirements are then to be used as a baseline for the evaluation of
> all the XML based markup languages either under development, or released,
> which pertain to the procurement process. A report, sponsored by the NAPM,
> will be released which states which markup languages meet the NAPM
> identified requirements for the indirect procurement process. NAPM does
not
> want to develop another ML, but would rather steer ML's already under
> development or released, to satisfy these requirements.
>
> There were two presentations given at this meeting. The first was a small
> tutorial on XML in general presented by the CTO of StrategicParts.com. The
> second was a comparison of XML to EDI by Kevin Kail from XML Solutions.
The
> rest of the day was spent in small groups, committing to working on this
> project, planning and starting the development of the requirements.
>
> They do not have a need for graphics on the web given their current goals.
>
> Kevin O'Kane
> Auto-trol Technology Corp.
>