EDI Commercial Lines Standards

• UN/EDIfact Commercial Lines Standards may be obtained by contacting dbottschen@csio.com.

CSIO developed its initial set of Commercial Lines Standards using the UN/EDIFACT Syntax/structure. Support for Commercial Lines Standards has now moved from EDI to XML.

WHAT IS UN/EDIFACT or UN/CEFACT?
UN/EDIFACT (United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) provides messages for handling EDI data exchange between parties that are adopted by the United Nations and are being supported by both governments and private sector groups, throughout the world in order to facilitate global trade. CSIO using EDIFACT Commercial Standards published Standards for 12 lines/sub-lines of business. Today Standards work is proceeding through a newly restructured UN/CEFACT standards organization. Trade groups include: Insurance, customs, materials management, finance, products, statistics, engineering, travel & tourism, healthcare, education, transportation, accounting, environment and purchasing. UN/CEFACT is committed to core component (reusability) identification and development via business models with emphasis on syntax neutral elements and messages. In October 2005 the first publication of the UN/CEFACT Insurance core components developed in cooperation with ACORD, CSIO and eEG7. Refer to the press announcement below.