UN/CEFACT
UN/CEFACT TBG1 (Trade & e-Procurement Group)
Kuala Lumpur Meeting Minutes
14-18 March 2005
2005, March 21st .
United Nations - CEFACT Forum – TBG Working Group TBG1
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 2005-03-14 until
2005-03-18
TBG1 Supply chain & e-Procurement
Monday, March 14, 2005
1. Freddy De Vos, TBG1 Chair, opened the meeting. The Chair welcomed
everyone to the group.
2. The group gave introductions.
3. The Agenda was reviewed. A joint meeting is scheduled with TBG3 tomorrow
at 11:00. We will review common parties and terms used by trade and
transport. All documents of the KL meeting will be posted on the TBG1
website. We will have a joint meeting on Wednesday with TBG6 at 1:30,
followed by a TBG12 joint meeting for accounting information. During the
training sessions, the group will not meet. The modeling group would like to
meet with us on Wednesday. Wednesday morning the group will review the
MSDS BRS.
4. The meeting minutes from Washington were approved.
5. Approval of DMRs: no new DMRs were received. Bruno will present in
ATG1 the new message request of the DAPLOS message.
6. Approval of the agenda: The agenda was reviewed and approved. There was
some discussion on the UNeDocs project and the creation of a specific TBG
group.
7. Assign delegates:
Modeling group, Ian, Sylvia and Ove.
TBG17, Mary Kay Blantz,
TBG15 Bruno Joguet.
8. Project update:
 Aerospace and Defense supply chain: Jean-Luc gave a brief summary
of the project. The BRS has been submitted to TBG1. Issues for
Freddy: clarify the ODP on the process for review. Jean Luc has gotten
a sign off from the US and Europe. This was approved by TBG1. The
next step is the approval by the TBG steering committee. The project
team will develop the RSM and candidate core components prior to the
September CEFACT meeting.
 Steel industry: Freddy made a presentation to the group. The European
steel industry would like to have by the end of 2006 version 2 of their
XML standard in line with the UN/CEFACT specifications. Ian Watt
gave the group a summary of a meeting of the steel industry in
Australia. The Australian Steel Association has put together a
document raising some comments and questions on the EUROFER
ESIDEL version 1.0 for XML messages. Ian, David and Freddy will
get together and discuss this on Thursday afternoon. The Australian
Government is very interested in this project.
 EAN Supply Chain: None was given
 Material Safety Data Sheet (Kim): The BRS was submitted. The group
will review this document on Wednesday.
TBG1_Kuala Lumpur
3/8/2016
page: 1
United Nations - CEFACT Forum – TBG Working Group TBG1
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 2005-03-14 until
2005-03-18
TBG1 Supply chain & e-Procurement

Invoice/Remittance Advice (Freddy): The BRS documents were
distributed prior to the meeting. During the meeting these BRS were
approved by TBG1 and will be presented to the TBG Steering
Committee for approval. The project team will develop the RSM and
core components prior to the September CEFACT meeting.
9. TGB Library of Core Components (Freddy): Update from London meeting: 49
ACC’s are approved. Only 25% of the agenda was completed. The next
meeting of TBG17 will be in May and they will meet again in August. Generic
definitions are asked for at the ACC level. The question of the impact on the
existing data base is still out there.
 Note: The AeroBoost candidate core components were submitted to
TBG17.
10. EEG1 Class diagrams presentation: Freddy gave a brief review of how to put
together a class diagram.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
1. The meeting was called to order.
2. Freddy will arrange for a larger room on Wednesday afternoon for the joint
meetings.
3. Freddy summarized the Steering Committee meeting. The UNeDocs project
proposal will change and the submitters will write a paper for TBG1 to
approve. The new TBG group requested will not be a permanent group, it will
be for 2 years. This new group overlaps TBG1, TBG4 and TBG3. TBG1 is
waiting for an updated project proposal from the submitter.
Freddy asked for the RSM specification to be finalized in the next two months.
4. Freddy presented TBG1 trade and transport terms for consignment and
shipping proposal in function of the joint TBG1 – TBG3 meeting.
5. TBG1 had a meeting with TBG3 about the joint development of a multi modal
transport scenario and global class diagram. The minutes of this meeting can
be found in the minutes of TBG3.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
1. Freddy gave the report from the Steering committee. A press release will come
out at the end of the meeting. TBG1 has to prepare a summary about the
approved BRS and give it to the TBG chair. TBG1 has to prepare a 3 pages
document as a UN document that refers to the BRS. The chairman of TBG17
is working on global procedures to keep all the groups procedures in line.
Freddy has the draft documents terms of reference for TBG. There was
discussion on the UNeDocs project. Freddy has received the text of the
amended version of the project proposal with the request to evaluate and an
TBG1_Kuala Lumpur
3/8/2016
page: 2
United Nations - CEFACT Forum – TBG Working Group TBG1
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 2005-03-14 until
2005-03-18
TBG1 Supply chain & e-Procurement
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
agreement of creating TBG2. Freddy will meet with Sue and Michael to
review comments on the project proposal.
The group reviewed the MSDS BRS. Several changes were made to the
models.
Ian presented the Draft Terms of Reference of the Modelers reference
initiative. His intent is to bring together the business process people and the
modeling efforts.
TBG1 members met to review the changes made to the UNeDocs Project
proposal. All proposed changes by TBG1 were agreed. TBG1 supported the
creation of TBG2 for the UNeDocs project proposal with the wording in the
Steering Committee minutes that all efforts must be coordinated with the
appropriate TBG group.
TBG1 had in the afternoon a meeting with TBG6 on the joint projects on eTendering and e-Catalogue. The chairman of TBG6 reported that the BRS on
e-Tendering has been approved by TBG6 at the beginning of the week and a
presentation of the document was provided by the project leader. The BRS on
e-Tendering shall be made available to the TBG1 members.
Freddy informed the meeting that work started on the e-Catalogue project by a
project team in eBES/EEG1. As soon as information is available on the
business processes to create and maintain a catalogue, the information shall be
made available to the members of EEG1 and EEG6.
The chair of TBG12 presented the joint TBG1-TBG12 to add some additional
information in some of the trade messages allowing the automatic integration
in the accounting systems of the parties involved in the trade transaction.
The presentation is added to the minutes.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
1. Steering committee report: The UNeDocs project proposal was approved,
along with the creation of TBG2. From now on, when a community outside
UN/CEFACT puts forth a project proposal, it will be addressed by the
appropriate TBG group through TBG15. Dick Raman has suggested that at the
UN/CEFACT Forum closing meeting a gift be presented to the organizers of
the meeting. A collection will be taken.
2. Each BRS is required to have a 3 pages summary that will be presented at the
CEFACT Plenary in June. All approved BRS’s will need to give a summary
for a Press Release.
3. A draft version of the RSM specifications will be out this week for a 6 weeks
review. TBG1 BRS’s are planned to have RSM information ready for the
September CEFACT meeting.
4. Bruno Prepin presented the group a new project proposal, Supply Chain
Framework. The group approved this project and Bruno will submit the
appropriate documents for distribution to the TBG Steering Committee. The
presentation is provided as an Attachment.
TBG1_Kuala Lumpur
3/8/2016
page: 3
United Nations - CEFACT Forum – TBG Working Group TBG1
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 2005-03-14 until
2005-03-18
TBG1 Supply chain & e-Procurement
5. Kim Lambert presented the final BRS for the MSDS. The group reviewed the
document and approved it to go to TBG Steering Committee.
6. Freddy explained what is happening in Europe for cross industry ordering
process project. Work has begun on the process and data models in EEG1 with
CIDX, PIDX and GS1. A technical expert Fred van Blommestein has been
hired to create the BRS and RSM. Freddy will distribute the first version of the
BRS for TBG1 review and comments.
TBG1_Kuala Lumpur
3/8/2016
page: 4
United Nations - CEFACT Forum – TBG Working Group TBG1
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 2005-03-14 until
2005-03-18
TBG1 Supply chain & e-Procurement
TBG1 Attendance
Last Name
First Name
Blantz
Mary Kay
AIAG
Blantz@attglobal.net
Champion
Jean-Luc
e-Business Standards Development
jean_luc_champion@yahoo.com
De Vos
Freddy
EUROFER
F.De_Vos@eurofer.be
Hickman
David
Autralian Government Dept. Of Comm. David.hickman@dcita.gov.au
Joguet
Bruno
Axway
bjoguet@axway.com
Lambert
Kim
LMI
klambert@lmi.org
Watt
Ian
Applied Electronic Commerce
Ian.Watt@aeCommerce.com.au
Nesvik
Ove
ebix
Ove.nesvik@edisys.no
Takesmi
Seto
EDI Consulting
tededi@ce.mbm.or.jp
Prepin
Bruno
EDIFRANCE
bprepin@edi/rame.org
Webb
Sylvia
GEFEG
swebb@gefeg.com
Youg Jae
Kim
Korea Polytechnic University
yjkim@kpu.ac.kr
TBG1_Kuala Lumpur
Represent.
3/8/2016
e-Mail
page: 5