PiLog in co-operation with The Asset Partnership is presenting a course on the use of the eOTD in Brisbane Australia.
Background to the Workshop
The utilisation of international standards in the creation of Master Data has become the norm for World Best Practice companies today. The correct application of these standards is vital to ensure that investment s in ERP's can be utilised fully.>
Formed in April 1999; the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association has brought together thousands of experts from around the world and provides them a means of working together in the fair, open and extremely fast environment of the Internet to build and maintain the global, open standard dictionaries that are used to unambiguously label information. The existence of label dictionaries allows information to be passed from one computer system to another with out losing meaning. ECCMA has therefore developed the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD) to provide international codification and cataloguing of material items and services in a translatable manner.
When developing e-commerce initiatives and strategies, most organisations today realise the benefits of open standards for content. These benefits include improved competition, inter connectivity and interoperability. In order to establish a true standard there must be processes and procedures which allow for equal participation among all interested parties. Participating in standards development is one of the best ways to stay informed and to build close relationships with companies around the world. Electronic coding standards touch every business, and everyone can participate in and influence standards development.
In addition to the benefits of e-commerce and international collaboration, the following internal business benefits have been obtained by various companies across the Globe in applying the eOTD:
- Improved procurement processes
- Reduced costs in processing procurement orders.
- Reduced direct purchases and maverick spend
- Improved spend analysis
- More effective maintenance due to the improved identification and procurement of spares.
- Reduction in inventory duplicates and common items
- Merging of databases, and comparison of business unit data, regardless of differences in ERP's.
Workshop Objective
- To introduce the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary
- To learn the fundamentals of content data integrity
- To review cataloguing tools and services now available internationally
- To understand the fundamentals of data cleansing
- To introduce ISO 8000: Requirements for Catalogue Management Systems
- To review a range of eOTD implementation projects
Your Workshop Presenter— Peter Benson, CTO of ECCMA
Peter Benson is the Executive Director and Chief Technical Officer of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA).
Peter is an expert in distributed information systems and content encoding who designed one of the very first commercial electronic mail software applications, WordStar Messenger. WordStar Messenger was granted a landmark British patent in 1992 covering the use of electronic mail systems to maintain distributed databases.
Following this, Peter designed and oversaw the development of a number of strategic distributed database management systems used extensively in the UK and US by the Public Relations and Media Industries. From 1994 to 1998, Peter served as the elected chairman of the American National Standards Institute Accredited Committee ANSI ASCX 12E, the Standards Committee responsible for the developmsent and maintenance of EDI standard for product data.
Peter is known for the design, development and global promotion of the UNSPSC as an internationally recognized commodity classification and more recently for the design of the eOTD an internationally recognised open technical
dictionary based on the NATO codification system.
Peter is also the Project leader for ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 as well as the ISO TC184/SC4 Quality committee convener. He is an expert in cataloguing systems which he believes are critical to e-Commerce . Peter in an internationally recognized proponent of Open Standards |
