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Reference transactions in eBIZ/TC Upstream (2013-1)
Introduction to the Reference Transactions
The inter-company collaborative PROCESSES of eBIZ/TC Upstream are made of ACTIVITIES, that, in turn, require the execution of
one or more TRANSACTIONS.
As Transaction we consider sending and correct management of a single eBIZ/TC Upstream DOCUMENT.
Here you find optimised models suggested to the developers ed users, with the description of pre and post conditions for each activity.
When the case, it is declared when a Document is usually a reaction to another Document (for example Order and Order Response).
As already written, the implementation of such sequences of Transactions is purely indicative, and may happen completely or partially.
release 10/10/2013
Process 1 - Fabric subcontracted darning
Process
Fabric subcontracted darning
Description
Process by which the Fabric Producer function commissions to a Subcontractor the screening and darning of the grey fabric.
Process activities
Activity 1 - Subcontracted fabric darning
Activity
Subcontracted fabric darning
Description
Activity by which a Contractor commissions the darning of grey fabric to a Subcontractor
Preconditions
The Fabric Producer has decided to commission the darning to a specialised Subcontractor
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Textile Darn Order
This message is usable to commission the darning of grey fabric.
This message is usable to schedule the delivery of the commissioned output product (fabric) at the Commissioner's premises. Request of 'Textile Despatch Advice'
Fabric production process commissioned to subcontractors; the process starts from raw material and produces finished fabrics.
The Fabric Producer function commissions to specialised Subcontractors some value-added operations of the manufacturing cycle because of specific know-how or scale economies. In this process 3 events are foundamental: the issue of the commission order, the swap of the material, the reporting of the order progress.
Process activities
Activity 1 - Subcontracted warping
Activity
Subcontracted warping
Description
Activity by which a Contractor commissions a ground warp to a Subcontractor
Preconditions
The Fabric Producer has decided to commission the warping to a specialised Subcontractor
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Warping Request
This message is usable to request an offer for the ground warping of yarn. Request of 'Warping Offer'
This message is usable to schedule the delivery of the commissioned output product (fabric) at the Commissioner's premises. Request of 'Textile Despatch Advice'
This message is usable to schedule the delivery of the commissioned output product (fabric) at the Commissioner's premises. Request of 'Textile Despatch Advice'
This message is usable to schedule the delivery of the commissioned output product (fabric) at the Commissioner's premises. Request of 'Textile Despatch Advice'
Process that describes the procurement of fabric by Clothing companies or Brand Retailers or other kind of Users (Home textile or automotive).
Process activities
Activity 1 - Selection of fabrics
Activity
Selection of fabrics
Description
Activity of selection of the fabrics that the Clothing Producer (or any other User) insert in its Collection (includes the exchange of the products codes, the technical sheets, the anticipation or the forecast about articles to be purcased)
Preconditions
The Clothing Producer must select and reserve the fabric articles to employ in its apparel collection
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Textile Catalogue
This document is usable both as a sales catalogue and to exchange in advance the product data between the Supplier and the Customer, in order to synchronize their product data-bases. It lists the articles composing the Fabric Producer's offer (codes, descriptions, prices and sales conditions) and can include some of the technical data (composition, weight and width, construction specifications, …).
This document is used to provide the Customer (Buyer) with the technical data relevant to describe and characterize the fabric article; i.e.: general data, costruction details, measurements of color fastness, dimensional stability and mechanical properties.
This document is used to notify to the Fabric Producer the articles of his Offer that are considered for future acquisition or use in the Apparel Season Collection. The same document can also be used by the Client to request the Fabric Technical Sheet and/or notify the buyer’s article code to the Producer.
The Apparel Producer sends to the Fabric Producer an Order Change any time he must modify some conditions of his previous Order (eg. to cancel items not delivered in time) or amend errors (eg. invalid prices). Request of 'Textile Order Response'
The message is issued by the Fabric Producer to report to his Client the status of his Orders and the updated delivery dates, with the possibility of splitting an order line into several consignements.
Activity 3 - Fabric delivery with quality reporting by Producer
Activity
Fabric delivery with quality reporting by Producer
Description
Activity of delivering the fabrics to the Clients or their SubContractors without the intervention of a Controller
Preconditions
The Clothing Producer agrees to accept the fabric pieces with self-certification of the Fabric Producer
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Textile Despatch Request
The message is issued to plan the delivery of the fabric pieces that are in the "ready for despatch" status (see the document "Textile Order Status").This document enables the Buyer to modify some date of its Order (delivery dates and places). Request of 'Textile Despatch Advice'
The message is issued by the Fabric Producer as "quality certificate" of the fabric piece, mainly to anticipate the details on the existence, position and classification of faults in order to accelerate and improve the following apparel manufacturing.
In this scenario, the Fabric Producers agree to send fabrics and accessories ordered by the Apparel Producer to a Logistics Company or directly to the Apparel Subcontractor specified by the Apparel Producer.
The Apparel Producer send a Despatch Request o
Preconditions
The Clothing producer has contracted the Fabric Producer or a Logistics company for the "groupage" service (fabric pieces and accessories grouped together in the apparel kit)
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Textile Despatch Request
The message is issued to plan the delivery of the fabric pieces that are in the "ready for despatch" status (see the document "Textile Order Status").This document enables the Buyer to modify some date of its Order (delivery dates and places).
The message is issued by the Fabric Quality Controller as "quality certificate" of the fabric piece, mainly to anticipate the details on the existence, position and classification of faults in order to accelerate and improve the following apparel manufacturing.
The message is issued by the Fabric Quality Controller as "quality certificate" to inform the Fabric Producer about the result of its quality inspection.
The Apparel Producer send the Despatch Request of the "kit" to the Fabric Producer (ALTERNATIVE: to the Logistics company) so that it can make the "groupage (fabric, buttons, fastners…) and send it to the specified Subcontractor. Request of 'Garment Kit Despatch Advice'
The Fabric Producer (ALTERNATIVE: the Logistics company) sends the Despatch Advise to the Apparel Producer to confirm the shipping of the “kit” to the SubContractor.
The Fabric Producer (ALTERNATIVE: the Logistics company) sends the Despatch Advise to the Subcontractor to anticipate the information about the material it will receive.
The message is issued to plan the delivery of the fabric pieces that are in the "ready for despatch" status (see the document "Textile Order Status").This document enables the Buyer to modify some date of its Order (delivery dates and places).
The document Piece Control Order is used by the Apparel Producer to specify the type of inspection and accessory treatments requested for each fabric piece and the final destination of the fabric piece.
The message is issued by the Fabric Controller as "quality certificate" of the fabric piece, mainly to anticipate the details on the existence, position and classification of faults in order to accelerate and improve the following apparel manufacturing.
The message is issued to anticipate the details the fabric pieces that are to be dispatched after quality control. The physical dispatch can be either to the Client (Apparel Producer) or to a Subcontractor; in the second instance, this is for information only.
The message is issued to anticipate the details the fabric pieces that are to be dispatched after quality control when the physical dispatch is to a Subcontractor.
The Receiving Advise can be used by the Subcontractor either to confirm the regular receipt of the fabric pieces or to notify discrepancies between what was declared by the Sender and what was received.
Activity that brings to completion the trading between the Fabric Producer and the Apparel Producer, enabling the Fabric Producer to debit the product supplied and any additional service performed.
Preconditions
The Fabric Producer has satisfied the Apparel Producer’s order under any quantitative/qualitative condition.
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Textile Invoice (Updated)
The message can be used by the Fabric Producer to debit its Client for any kind of supply or service. This document can be used to debit standard fabric supply using the option "texItem", and additional goods or services (stocks, batch rests, ..) using the option "prodServItem", even in the same invoice.
Process that describes the procurement of garment accessories by Clothing companies or Brand Retailers or other kind of Users (Home textile or automotive).
Process activities
Activity 1 - Purchase of Garment accessory
Activity
Purchase of Garment accessory
Description
Activity of purchase of garment accessories, includes monitoring of the advancements of the order.
Preconditions
The Clothing producer has defined the garment accessories that will order (article identifiers, quantities, delivery dates)
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Garment Accessory Purchase Order
The message is issued by the Apparel Producer to purchase garment accessories. Request of 'Garment Accessory Purchase Order Response'
The message is issued by the Garment Accessory Producer in response to a purchase order.The Producer must, in any case, return an Order Response for any Order received.
The Apparel Producer sends to the Garment Accessory Producer an Order Change any time he must modify some conditions of his previous Order (eg. to cancel items not delivered in time) or amend errors (eg. invalid prices). Request of 'Garment Accessory Purchase Order Response'
Activity of delivering the garment accessory to the Clients.
Preconditions
The Clothing company agrees to accept the garment accessories with self-certification of the producer
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Garment accessory Despatch Advice
The message is issued to notify to the Apparel Producer that the garment accessories are available for despatch.This document enables the Buyer to plan the deliveries. Request of 'Garment Accessory Despatch Request'
The message is issued to plan the delivery of the garment accessories.This document enables the Buyer to modify some date of its Order (delivery dates and places). Request of 'Garment accessory Despatch Advice'
Subcontracted production of the knitwear; the input of the process is yarn and accessories ; the phasis of the process include knitting, cutting, assembling and finishing (washing, ironing, labelling, ..etc…).
Process activities
Activity 1 - Knitting and assembling
Activity
Knitting and assembling
Description
Activity concering the production process for the knitwear; the main steps of the process are knitting, cutting, assembling.
Preconditions
The knitwear Producer externalises the kintting and assembling operations
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Knitting-Clothing Commission Order
The knitting-clothing commission order is used by the Knitwear Producer to commit to a Sub-contractor the manufacturing of knitwear or clothing articles. Request of 'Knitting-Clothing Commission Order Response'
The message is issued to anticipate the details of the yarn articles actually despatched to the subcontractor for the execution of the subcontracted operation.
The message is issued to anticipate the details of the accessory articles actually despatched to the subcontractor for the execution of the subcontracted operation. Request of 'Receiving Advice'
The Receiving Advise can be used by the Receiver of goods (received for commissioned works) either to confirm the regular receipt of goods or to notify discrepancies between what was declared by the Sender and what was received and accepted.
The message is issued to require an additional delivery of the accessory articles to the subcontractor for the execution of the subcontracted operation.
The message is issued to reply to a request of additional delivery of accessories for the execution of the subcontracted operation. Request of 'Receiving Advice'
The Receiving Advise can be used by the Receiver of goods (received for commissioned works) either to confirm the regular receipt of goods or to notify discrepancies between what was declared by the Sender and what was received and accepted.
This document can be used by a Subcontractor to inform his Client (Commission issuer), periodically or on demand, about the quantity of pre-works or in-work items (Client's property) stocked at the Subcontractor's premises.
The message is issued to anticipate the details of the knitwear articles actually despatched to the subcontractor for the execution of the subcontracted operation. Request of 'Receiving Advice'
The Receiving Advise can be used by the Receiver of goods (received for commissioned works) either to confirm the regular receipt of goods or to notify discrepancies between what was declared by the Sender and what was received and accepted.
This document can be used by a Subcontractor to inform his Client (Commission issuer), periodically or on demand, about the quantity of pre-works or in-work items (Client's property) stocked at the Subcontractor's premises.
Yarn production process commissioned to subcontractors; the process starts from raw material and produces finished yarns.
The Yarn Producer function commissions to specialised Subcontractors some value-added operations of the manufacturing cycle because of specific know-how or scale economies. In this process 3 events are foundamental: the issue of the commission order, the swap of the material, the reporting of the order progress.
Process activities
Activity 1 - Subcontracted dyeing of raw material
Activity
Subcontracted dyeing of raw material
Description
Activity of commissioning to a Subcontrctor the dyeing of raw material.
Preconditions
The Yarn Producer has decided to commission the dyeing of raw material to a specialised Subcontractor
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Raw material Dyeing Request
This message is usable to request an offer for the dyeing of raw material. Request of 'Raw Material Dyeing Offer'
Process of supplying of yarns (usually for production of fabrics, knitwear; sometimes directly to clothing producing functions and other industrial users and to final customers).
Process activities
Activity 1 - Selection of yarn
Activity
Selection of yarn (New or updated)
Description
The Fabric or Knitwear producer selects the yarns on which to place its purchase orders
Preconditions
The Fabric or Knitwear Producer is searching for a product that can satisfy its requirements
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Yarn Offer Request (New)
The Fabric or Knitwear Producer sends this enquiry to the Yarn Producer about the kind of yarn he needs, by specifying a selection of manufacturing characteristics and mechanical-physical-chemical properties with the desired values of the ad-hoc parameters. Request of 'Yarn Offer (Offer-Catalog-Tech.Sheet)'
The Yarn Producer sends this document reporting all the data that identify the yarn articles matching the Request and certify their manufacturing characteristics and its mechanical-physical-chemical properties.
In many cases the values declared for these parameters may be the average of several test measurements with a coefficient of variation (CV).
The Fabric or Knitwear producer has identified the technical parameters of the yarns needed and is searching for an offer that can satisfy his requirements
The message is issued by the Yarn Producer in response to a purchase order.The Producer must, in any case, return an Order Response for any Order received, where, for each item, he notifies the acceptance as it is (C), the variation (V) or the cancellation (A).
The Fabric Producer sends to the Yarn Producer an Order Change any time he must modify some conditions of his previous Order (eg. to cancel items not delivered in time) or amend errors (eg. invalid prices). Request of 'Yarn Purchase Order Response'
The message is issued by the Yarn Producer to report to his Client the status of his Orders and the updated delivery dates, with the possibility of splitting an order line into several consignements.
Activity of delivering the yarn to the Clients
This activity does not include the provision of a quality report to the Client and the invoicing
Preconditions
The Fabric Producer agrees to accept the yarn products with self-certification of the Manufacturer
Activity transactions
Document
Action description
Sender, Receiver
Resources
1 - Yarn Despatch Request
The message is issued to plan the delivery of the yarn products that are in the "ready for despatch" status (see the document "Yarn Order Status").This document enables the Buyer to modify some date of its Order (delivery dates and places). Request of 'Yarn Despatch Advice'