Cross Industry Quotation Proposal Response - D23B

The current practice of exchanging business documents by means of telecommunications – usually defined as e-Business – presents a major opportunity to improve the competitiveness of companies, especially for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). The catalogue is an important document exchanged between trading partners, it marks the start of the trading cycle. The developing of the Cross Industry Catalogue started as an initiative by CEN/ISSS Workshop eBES, the European Expert Group 1 (EEG1) – Supply Chain & e-Procurement. The document describe globally consistent catalogue information exchange processes for worldwide supply chains and e-Procurement of commodities, using the UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM) approach and Unified Modelling Language to describe the business processes and business documents involved.