Spreading i nteroperability in eProcurement processes across Europe

1. Spreading interoperability in eProcurement processes across Europe Open Seminar Brussels December 6, 2012

2. Overview of the general approach of CEN BII Jostein Frømyr, CEN/BII Vice Chair

3. It has been quite a jourey…

4. …. also intellectually CWA 16073 Stakeholder requirements

5. 25 organizations from 9 different countries registered as workshop participants These organizations nominated some 90 experts to contribute to our work. 5 CWAs 104 individual documents included in the publication Some facts and figures

6. UN/CEFACT SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS. BII guides implementation of standards • The focus of BII is on collecting European requirements and to provide guidance for consistent implementation of existing international developments. The standards The implementation guide The implementation

7. Our approach Goal A Profile is a technical specification describing: • the choreography of the business process(es) covered, • the electronic business transactions exchanged as part of the business process , • the business rules governing the execution of that business process(es), its business collaborations and business transactions, as well as any constraints on information elements used • the information content of the electronic business transactions exchanged. Requirements Validation Syntax

8. BII Profiles

9. BII syntax binding Defines how information requirements expressed in a profile can be met by the target XML syntaxes.

10. BII validation tools • Tools to ensure that instance documents exchanged “on the wire” conforms to the rules of the Profile.

11. Core information requirements • BII is defining core information requirement models • the set of information elements sufficient to cater for the generally expressed business requirements applicable throughout the European market. • BII specifications can be implemented as is, but are also intended for further customization.

12. BII addresses the whole eProcurement process • The specifications provided by BII support the whole procurement process • from publication of the Prior Information Notice through to the final Invoice. • Based on, and supports, relevant EU directives

13. Pre-awarding phases eProcurement phases call for tender preparation eAccess eSubmission eAwarding contract Fulfilment eInvoicing Consistant eprocurement solution Post-awarding phases eOrdering Payment Customer identification Supplier identification Item identification Item Price Ordered qty. Delivered qty Amount due

14. Scalable solutions • Trough the use of Profiles, BII provides for flexible and scalable support for the various business processes in eProcurement.

15. BII enables interoperablee-procurements solutions BII Profiles allow for interoperability at the organizational level. BII Information Requirement Models allow for interoperability at semantic level. BII syntax binding and validation tools supports interoperability at technical level.

16. A sincere thanks to all 90 experts, and our editors, who made all this possible!