Cross Industry Integration… October 30, 2007
Posted by Jonathan Gatrell in Business Community Management, Industry Publications.Tags: Data Interchange, EDI, Global trade, Healthcare enrollments, SDO, Transportation Management, VICS
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More and more companies continue to be challenged to automate new parts of thier businesses communities, which may ultimately require automating with members of different industries with new requirements and a diverse set of transaction requirements previously not understood.
Two key industry organizations, VICS and ASCX12, are delivering new standards support, best practice models and global support requirements for cross-industry interactions and automation.
ASC X12 continues to evolve their organization to deliver meaningful integration for all industries where effectively the transaction becomes the industry bridge. This approach to delivering a cross industry set of transactions helps support better visibility and more effective business community management through use of standards based transactions, whether it’s automating Global Trade, integrating with carriers, Healthcare enrollments or just the traditional Order-to-Cash lifecylce deployed in most organizations.
Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions‘ (VICS) is working to deliver a new comprehensive implementation model for Collaborative Transportation Management, which leverage core X12 transactions, defines the sequence of transaction and the owners of each transaction from a sender/receiver perspective.
As community leaders, standards groups and technology partners work to deliver increased capabilities for cross-industry and global interactions the input from users is a very important part of the process to ensure success. Below is an overview of the new high level X12 presentation which helps understand the work, the value and the impact of a given standards development organization.
With ongoing improvements to existing document content, investment in new transactional models and industry expertise groups such as VICS and X12 will continue to drive improvments for global connectivity and process integration.
The transactions aren’t only about buyer and seller or carrier and customer – they are building blocks for multi-industry interoperability, which is becomming an increasingly important requirement for global business communities.
