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UBL JPLSC Report

November 6, 2006

Yukinori Saito

Vice Chair of OASIS UBL JPLSC

Fuji Electric Information Service Co., Ltd.

saito-yukinori@fujielectric.co.jp

OASIS UBL TC Singapore Meeting

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Recent Activities (F2F Meeting)13th Meeting(2006.01.06)

14th Meeting(2006.03.11)

15th Meeting(2006.05.24)

16th Meeting(2006.08.02)

17th Meeting(2006-10-10)

- Study and evaluation of UBL V2.0 specification ’Universal Business Language 2.0 (index.html)’. Then JPLSC have submitted the comments to UBL TC.

- Study and evaluation of UBL V2.0 business documents. Then JPLSC have submitted the comments to UBL TC.

- Study and evaluation of UBL V2.0 business documents (continued).

-Making ABIEs Reference Table. Then JPLSC have submitted it to UBL TC. (2006-06-27)-Study of SBS V1.0. Then JPLSC have submitted it to UBL SBSC. (2006-07-06)-Study of UBP V1.0. Then JPLSC have submitted it to ebXML BPTC. (2006-07-06)

-Study and evaluation of UBL V2.0 PRD2 (index.html). Then JPLSC have submitted the comments to UBL TC.

-Review UBL V2.0 PRD3 (index.html).-Discussion how to proceed translation of UBL business documents.

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Members of JPLSC

* Noboru Itoh Otsuka Corp.

* Yukinori Saito Fuji Electric Information Service Co., Ltd.

Chair of B2B-EC framework WG in ECOM

Nobuyuki Sambuichi Hitachi Systems and Services, Ltd.

Shin Takagi Hitachi Systems and Services, Ltd.

* Hiroshi Naito Osaka Institute of Technology

* Naomasa Hosoda NEC Soft, Ltd.

* Akihiro Kawauchi Process Business Research Institute

* Kunio Ohno Justsystem Corporation

* Keisuke Ueno Japan Petrochemical Industry Association

** Kenichi Hayashi Mitsubishi Corp.

*: active member ** : Observer

■Chair

■Vice Chair

■Members

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Making the ABIEs Reference TableJPLSC has made 3 kinds of ABIEs Reference Table

(1) ASBIEs used in UBL Business Documents

No. ABIE Referring Documents Referring Common Library

1 Address Catalogue Request Branch, Delivery, FinancialInstruction, Party, PartyTaxSchema, TaxSchema

2 AddressLine Address

No. Business Document ASBIEs

1 Catalogue ValidityPeriod, Referenced Contract, Signature, ProviderParty, ReceiverParty, ContractorCustomerParty

2 Catalogue Deletion ValidityPeriod, DeletedCatalogueReference, Signature, ProviderParty, ReceiverParty, ContractorCustomerParty

(2) ASBIEs used in UBL Common Library

No. ABIE ASBIEs

1 Address AddressLine, Country, LocationCordinate

2 AddressLine -

(3) Common Library ABIEs Reference Table

The Common Library ABIEs Reference Table has been incorporated in UBL V2.0 specification.

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Mapping study from Japanese manufacturing SME business

document to UBL V2.0 and SBS V1.0 (1/3)1. Background - JPLSC has been asked to compare UBL SBS and the

Japanese manufacturing SME business document (developed

by ECOM) by UBL SBSC.

2. Results of the mapping study (Order business document)

No. of BIEs of Japanese SME BD

Mapped BIEs to UBL V2.0 Mapped BIEs to SBS V1.0

Significant BIEs 71 Direct mapped BIEs

46(65%)

Direct mapped BIEs

21(30%

)

Substituted mapped BIEs

6(8%)

Substituted mapped BIEs

5(7%)

Not mapped BIEs 19(27%)

Not mapped BIEs 45(63%

)

Total 71(100

%)

Total 71(100

%)

Irrelevant BIEs(e.g. Japanese Kanji)

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Total 83

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Mapping study from Japanese manufacturing SME business

document to UBL V2.0 and SBS V1.0 (2/3)

3. Evaluation to

UBL V2.0

- 73% BIEs (including Direct mapped BIEs and substituted ma

pped BIEs) of the Japanese Manufacturing SME business doc

ument are mapped to fullset UBL V2.0.- The percentage of mapping impossible BIEs is 27%. Howeve

r, this issue would not become big problems. Almost mapping

impossible BIEs are optional BIEs and will be settled by opera

tional level countermeasures.- When judging the mapping results overall, the Japanese ma

nufacturing SME business document is almost mapped to UB

L V2.0. By adopting operational level countermeasures, the int

eroperable e-business between the Japanese Manufacturing

SME business document and UBL V2.0 will be possible.

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Mapping study from Japanese manufacturing SME business

document to UBL V2.0 and SBS V1.0 (3/3)

4. Evaluation to

SBS V1.0

- 37% BIEs of the Japanese Manufacturing SMS Business Doc

ument are mapped to SBS V1.0.- 64% BIEs are not mapped to SBS V1.0.- It will be difficult to adopt SBS in Japanese marketplace, bec

ause many BIEs are not included in SBS BIEs. The mapping p

ercentage of Japanese major business document to SBS V1.0

is small comparing fullset UBL V2.0.

- If SBS V1.0 would be revised based on UBL V2.0, the mappin

g percentage of Japanese major business document to SBS w

ould be much bigger.

- The birth and background of both UBL SBS and Japanese M

anufacturing SME business document is different each other.

Therefore, it will be natural to think that these two business d

ocuments have many differences.

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Study of UBP and BPSS

1. Background

2. Study Results

3. Thought and

trend of

BPSS in

Japan

4. Providing

BPSS sample

- JPLSC has been asked to study UBP (Universal Business Pr

ocess) and BPSS by ebXML BPTC.

- JPLSC has checked some BPSS instances in UBP roughly. - JPLSC has thought that the BPSS instances are well designe

d.

- JEITA has developed XML based new standard named ECAL

GA. ECALGA has adopted ebMS, ebCPPA, and ebBP.- JEITA has developed BPSS instances of 8 Complex busines

s collaborations.- But, the deployment of the BPSS in Japan is very little.

- The sample BPSS instances were provided to ebBP TC from

JEITA. The samples were uploaded on the ebBP TC page in th

e OASIS web site.

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Related activities concerning UBL in Japan

1. ECOM (Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan)- ECOM developed a business document named ‘Japanese manufacturing SME

business document’ in 2004. This business document is a subset of ECALGA. - ECOM did mapping study from ‘Japanese manufacturing SME business docu

ment (ECALGA based)’ to UBL in 2004.- In this mapping studying process, ECOM developed a UBL subset for e-busine

ss between SMEs and big enterprises in Japan.

2. Common XML/EDI Practice Promotion Council (COXEC)- The Common XML/EDI Practice Promotion Council (COXEC) has been establis

hed in May, 2004. This council promote next generation common XML/EDI system for not only big enterprises but also SMEs.

- This council developed the Common XML/EDI framework.- The business document in this Common XML/EDI framework is ‘Japanese man

ufacturing SME business document (ECALGA based)’ and UBL subset.

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EDI-ASPHub server

Common XML/EDI framework

Common XML/EDI framework will adopt UBL as an international business documents to overseas trading companies.

EDI-ASPHub server

Mutual Connection

Push typeXML/EDI

Push typeXML/EDI

Medium sized SME

Pull typeXML/EDI

Push typeXML/EDI

Push typeXML/EDI

Big enterprises Big enterprises

VAN terminal

Big enterprises

Common XML/EDIframework

Closed network

・ Push type EDI ： Sender sends the business document to receiver. Constructed by server computer.・ Pull type EDI ： Receiver gets the business document from the sender. Constructed by personal computer.

VAN server

Industry specific business document, orJapanese manufacturing SME business document

Other Hub server

OverseasUBL Subset

Japanese manufacturing business document

Pull typeXML/EDI

Small sized SME Small sized SME

Japanese manufacturing business document