February 2007 Newsletter - Eccma · The refresh Project ... process of cleansing more challenging...

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From the Executive Director Every time I deliver an ECCMA technical short course I am amazed by the quality of the last day presentations that demonstrate over and over again the incredible knowledge and expertise that already exists in most compa-nies. While the course focuses on making everyone comfortable with the eOTD and the concept of cataloging at source we also focus on evaluating the costs and benefits of cataloging projects as well as how to present theses ef-fectively both to senior management as well as to those within the company that will be essential in making a cata-loging projects a success.

I also spend a lot of my time delivering presentations and discussing content standardization strategies with a wide range of companies. It would be presumptuous of me to lay claim to have discovered the silver bullet but I have definitely found that a simple change in terminology makes an amazing difference. I would like to suggest you try a simple experiment – take your latest presentation and substitute the term cataloguing or codification for Master Data Quality Management. Change your title from cataloguer to Master Data Quality Manger. Now stand back and take another look at your presentation.

We all know that there is a fundamental difference in transactional data and non transactional data, personally I have always struggled to find a suitable label when it was staring me in the face; there is transactional data and there is Master Data, the base records needed to support all transaction data. What is cataloging if it is not creating or improving the quality of master data?

I have been gradually changing my presentations and I am amazed by the ease with which I can communicate the value proposition of content standardization when it is presented in terms of creating quality of master data. One of the consequences of this improved understanding of the task at hand is more realistic expectations of the effort required to deliver it as well as its cost. Justifying $5 to catalogue an item is far more difficult that justifying $50 to create a master record that is going to support the full life cycle of the item from design through disposal as well as support safety, regulatory compliance and spend analysis. From MRO through OEM and everywhere in between there is not a single master record (including vendor, service, employee, customer, and shareholder master data) where the benefit of creating and maintaining quality master data does not exceed its cost by hundreds if not thou-sands of times. Just imagine that like Google you charged by "hits" against each master data record (not as far fetched as you would think) and took into account the value of the transaction that the master data supports – you get the idea.

So where do we go from here? I am hearing of more and more companies appointing data quality managers with oversight over all master data, this is great news. Also as you would expect there are a growing number of applica-tions and services that offer master data quality solutions and it will be interesting to see how these measure up to ISO 8000.

Speaking of ISO 8000, I am glad to be able to announce our plans for certification which you will find detailed in this newsletter.

Best Regards,

Peter Benson

ECCMA Newsletter 1 February 2007

From the Executive Director Member Profile Industry Corner

ECCMA Updates Who’s Who Questions & Answers

The Open Forum on Metadata Registries (OFMDR) is an annual conference that brings together implementers, stan-dards developers, and practitioners in the area of metadata registries. The event is organized by members of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32, Data Management and Interchange, and ISO TC37, Terminology, other language and content resources. These two committees are responsible for fundamental stan-dards that underpin much of ISO 22745 and the eOTD. In fact, the eOTD is, at its core, a metadata registry.

This year, the OFMDR will be held in New York City, New York USA, July 9-11. Key standards that are incorporated within the ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 architecture will be presented, including the following:

• ISO 704 Principles of terminology

• ISO 1087-1 Vocabulary for terminology work

• ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata registries

One of the themes of the forum will be that no single standard can solve all problems; several standards can be used together in order to solve a particular prob-lem. This year's forum will include technical presenta-tions on ISO 22745 and ISO 8000, and a tutorial on ISO 22745.

The OFMDR 2007 should be of interest to anyone who would like to learn how ISO 22745 relates to SC32 and TC37 standards, may have a requirement to implement SC32 standards such as ISO/IEC 11179 along with ISO 22745, or who may simply find this a convenient location and time to learn more about ISO 22745 and ISO 8000.

The conference web site is

http://metadataopenforum.org/.


The refresh Project - automating data standardization For the past four years, the research and development staff at Fresh SA, an IT R&D organization based in Switzerland, has been build-ing a system for automating data standardization. Since 2003, The system named refresh has passed close to 1 million dirty materials through its engine, successfully building practical content along the way.

The refresh Project started in 2003 with some private Swiss investments to focus on business process integration problems in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Many of the world's global 500 have headquarters in Switzerland. Most of these large companies face significant challenges in generating a return on their substantial investment in global or regional ERP projects. For example, one cur-rent client of Fresh consulting has a global IT spend of around 2Billion US dollars, with a major software supplier being SAP - the world's leading supplier of ERP software. While SAP has definitely pushed the world forward in terms of integrated business process thinking, some ERP configuration projects have struggled through lack of business focus, resulting in poor embedded business proc-esses and ending up with a difficult-to-use and heavily polluted ERP system. Companies would love to have an easy way to "refresh" this data.

The refresh project originally focused on two product groups or material types – RAW materials and Maintenance Repair and Opera-tions (MRO) materials. These were chosen mainly due to their business differences. For example, RAW materials in each business are very industry-specific, but often small in number, while MRO materials are always very numerous but quite generic. There are many good data standards bodies for each material type and industry type combination e.g. raw materials in the foods industry are strictly managed under food law for labeling requirements etc. (e.g. Codex Alimentarium). However in 2003, Fresh researchers immediately recognized ECCMA’s eOTD as the future de-facto standard for their technical material biased tool refreshMRO.

Since 2003 the refreshMRO project has been managed by two engineers. Cameron Green is a mechanical engineer with a career in maintenance and 10 years implementing ERP software at 3 out of the 4 largest global SAP projects. Håkan Cervin, another ERP expert, topped his engineering education with special studies in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at California Polytechnic Univer-sity. It was these special studies that were to be the seed of the new algorithms built into the refresh engine and first patented in 2004.

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Open Forum on Metadata Registries to be held in New York

By Gerald Radack

Industry Corner

(Industry Corner, continued from page 2)

The commercial version of refreshMRO was launched last year and is based on a java front end cockpit running stand-alone, or integrated with the ERP system. It is a com-plex but easy-to-use software aimed entirely at business end-users which accurately con-verts material data from a “disorganized” or “dirty” state to conform to eOTD coding and noun-qualifier descriptions. The software does this automatically, first using com-plex “under the hood” mathematical algorithms to match certain key words, numbers, units of measure and other data, then propose’s the newly cleansed data state with a certainty-of-match traffic-light color coding.

Statistically, refresh currently cleanses (re-describes to noun-qualifier, spend classifies to UNSPSC, assigns eOTD class and attributes, de-duplicates) one third of all materials passing through it automatically - without any human effort. The important part is that this auto-cleansed one third is identified as such (a green light assigned) and so in effect one third of your dirty materials are already completed with no man-hours spent. This is done through an algorithm that runs at about 1000 materials per hour.

Second, the software algorithms attempt to auto-generate eOTD properties and property values from all long texts in the data record, then lead the user through the manual process of cleansing more challenging data according to a unique self-learning method. As the software is used, opportunities are given to the business end user to confirm or deny fine tuning rules for the algorithms. So, at end state, the customized refreshMRO becomes the company’s detailed data standard (instead of just a word document) through which all future data can be verified. This tool can then be used as the "rule-filter" through which all newly created data must pass before being accepted into the ERP master.

Automatic matching is seen as an important step towards the semantic web approach, wherein future systems should be able to automatically match materials without human intervention. Unfortunately we are a long way away from having perfect coding for all materials and today refresh can be used as a practical stepping stone to match machine understanding with human data standards. It is an interesting new approach to data standardization, mainly due to algorithmic auto-mation and ease of use - removing the drudgery of cleansing thousands of line items. It would not have been possible to do this with-out a solid data standard dictionary - such as the extremely robust eOTD. Without such a backbone, we are always “chasing our tails” - the "homemade" dictionary is constantly a moving target and a frustration for the practical business end user. The eOTD has already been a great step forward and we are all looking forward to continuing to promote its growing use.

Figure1: refreshMRO filter embedded in SAP spare part creation transaction


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Pi-Log releases new Software utilizing the eOTD

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Pi-Log International announced that the new release of its highly successful Ramis Structured Text Generator now utilizes the eOTD. This follows the com-mitment of Pi-Log to support the eOTD in all the Ramis software modules.

The Ramis Structured Text Generator (STG) is a unique software module that is designed to reduce maverick spend by end users and buyers in large corpora-tions. In addition the Ramis STG introduces Structured Text purchases to re-place the standard Free Format Text type purchases that normally occur when direct purchasing requisitions are raised by end users.

Reinhard Schiel, Marketing Executive of Pi-Log says that most large corpora-tions have a problem of uncontrollable Direct or Free Format Text spends. “In our experience this form of purchasing averages 60% of all spend. As such spend is mostly not analyzable, it presents a major problem to procurement managers.” He continues that a large portion of such spend is of a maverick na-ture, resulting in large losses for corporations that painstakingly negotiates lower prices and rates with their contracted suppliers. Reinhard does emphasize that the Ramis STG not only employs sophisticated search technology and unique and complex algorithms, but also extends the eOTD Implementation Guides with special parameters to improve the software’s effectiveness.

In an exclusive interview with the ECCMA Newsletter, Pieter Strydom, Opera-tions Director of Starnode said that they have successfully implemented the Ramis STG at corporate clients with great results. “At one large client in South Africa, we were able to reduce the Direct spend with 24% within 6 months after going live with the Ramis STG software. Although this was part of a larger data cleansing project, the implementation of the Ramis STG was a certainly a key element to the success of the project.” In answer to a question from ECCMA News on how the incorporation of the eOTD models into the STG will affect Starnode’s clients, Pieter responded that it opens up a migration path to the eOTD to their existing clients as well as all potential new clients. “Implementing the eOTD at existing clients are essential for the protection of the huge investment that clients have in their data. The eOTD ensures compli-ance with ISO 8000 and opens up international trading which is vital as most corporate client do operate beyond the borders of their own country.”

Pi-Log specializes in niche software solutions that spans the entire world of cata-loguing and codification for both buying companies and supplying companies. The adoption of the Ramis STG to utilize the eOTD follows the release of Pi-Log’s free community edition of the Ramis Catalogue Builder at the October 2006 ECCMA conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

ECCMA members can obtain

a copy of this free community

edition from

www.ECCMA.org and click

on “Download Catalogue

Builder”

By Reinhard Schiel


In the beginning, there was data. The physical asset and Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO) data was plentiful. But, the data was without form. When word came down to begin data migration into a new enterprise application, plant by plant, facility by facility, system by system, the data moved. As time passed, errors were en-countered, duplication occurred, and unrest grew. Corporate realized that the implementation had faults.

This genesis occurs too often. Companies often assume that migrating data from one system to another or insti-tuting a new system is the solution to their poor data problem. But, if there is no data governance or data has never been standardized or “scrubbed”, and a common nomenclature ever established, the organization’s systems applications will be unable to perform at the optimal level. These systems’ users depend on organized, timely, data. Quality is paramount.

Moving physical asset and MRO data without standards-based protocols, namely nomenclature and taxonomy, prevents validation against physical assets, parts, and inventory. The data must be continually managed and a design plan must be in place in order to realize the greatest benefit and the most return on the system invest-ment. Data integration consists of six steps: Access (commonly referred to as extraction), analysis, cleansing, transformation, delivery (also referred to as load), and monitoring to ensure sustainability.

Data design is a critical element of any enterprise application and the quality, consistency, and security of the data are essential to the system’s success. The data must, therefore, be governed by a taxonomy (data library) con-taining naming conventions that facilitate consistency and scalability, thus promoting sustainability. Once a stan-dard taxonomy is established, the data must then be cleansed and transformed both to fit the taxonomy parame-ters and eliminate errors or duplicates, as illustrated by the integration lifecycle above.

Maintenance materials management, for example, is a core enabler to effective reliability initiatives and supports preventative maintenance, planned maintenance, inventory stocking levels, and inventory precision by standard-izing parts records. Additionally, these efforts assist plants or facilities to generate accurate and complete Bills of Materials (BOMs).

Data standardization expenses are a relatively small percentage of the overall costs for a full enterprise applica-tion implementation, but the return on investment can be substantiated many times over. Making a small incre-mental investment at the onset, promotes asset and inventory optimization. Standards methodology, when ap-plied to assigning nomenclature to physical assets and material stock items, dramatically improves both plant and enterprise performance. Results are evidenced in time savings across systems platforms, minimized equipment downtime, and reduced inventory. Hence, the value proposition is scaleable and efficient. In fact, standardiza-tion can impact ROA and ROI on IT investments, and therefore shareholder value. The ability to deliver timely, accurate data to authorized individuals on demand is the ultimate indicator of success.

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Russia Moves Toward Adoption of eOTDRussia Moves Toward Adoption of eOTDRussia Moves Toward Adoption of eOTD By Steven Arnett, Deputy Chief, International Division, DLIS

During the past year or so, the government and standardization organizations in Russia have made a number of decisions related to adoption of eOTD. This began in 2005, when the Russian CALS R&D Center "Applied Logistics" of Russia contacted ECCMA. Officials there expressed a strong interest in eOTD and stated they would like to become an ECCMA partner. The next year, the Fed-eral Centre of Catalogization (FCC) of the Russian Federation decided to make a major commitment to adopting eOTD. The com-mitment includes a plan to translate eOTD data into Russian and creation of a task force to work on implementation of eOTD in Rus-sia. To this end, ECCMA’s executive director, Peter Benson, signed an agreement with the FCC in Russia last October.

Most recently, Mr. Benson will travel to Korolev, Russia, to attend the 9th Russian Federation Conference on Codification, scheduled for April 12-13. The primary theme of the conference this year is eOTD. Mr. Benson will make presentations at the conference, which will also be attended by George Bond, the chairman of NATO Allied Committee 135, and possibly other National Directors of Codification. Russia has been a sponsored member of AC/135 for several years. Among other things, they are assisting AC/135 in the identification of spare parts on Soviet made equipment that is in use in countries that were formerly members of the Warsaw Pact but are now NATO members.

In addition to attending the conference, Mr. Benson will have meetings with FCC offi-cials, including some with Iouri Karnaouchkine, director of the FCC. The topics will include discussions on a Chapter Agreement under which the FCC would become the official representative of ECCMA in Russia. Mr. Benson also ex-pects to have further discus-sions with the FCC about the Russian effort to translation eOTD terminology into Rus-sian. Any ECCMA member who is interested in attending the Korolev conference should contact ECCMA for details. Korolev is about 30 miles from Moscow.

The FCC has set up an eOTD related Web site at www.eotd.ru. The site is in Russian, but some of it can be viewed in English by going to http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.eotd.ru/about.

ECCMA Updates The January 2007 eOTD version release includes the addition of terms and definitions contained in ISO 15926 (Integration of life-cycle data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities). Febru-ary’s release will include sub-properties created by splitting composite properties in the SSC-II project. It will also include new concepts and abbreviations provided by the SICSC (Services Industry Content Stan-dardization Council).

ECCMA, along with some of its member companies, has created Content Standardization Councils. The ECCMA Content Standardization Councils are industry groups responsible for the development of eOTD identification guides and terminology that support the needs of their industry-specific sectors. There are currently three councils working on eOTD identification guides; they are the Natural Resources Industry Content Standards Council (NRICSC), the Services Industry Content Standards Council (SICSC), and the Oil and Gas Content Standards Council (OGICSC).

If you would like more information on the Content Standardization Councils, or are interested in partici-pating, please contact [email protected].

ISO 8000 is clearly set to play an important role is setting master data quality standards. One of our goals is to encourage suppliers to adopt ISO 8000 as a means of improving the quality of the data they provide. Due to the publication cycle of ISO it is unlikely that we will see the formal publication of ISO 8000 as an international standard until 2008 but this is actually a good thing as it allows us to develop and validate a certification process that suits our member's requirements.

In line with our commitment to DLIS and NATO AC/135 certification must remain within the grasp of all businesses regardless of their size. Our certification process must therefore be simple. As planned the certification process consists of a member of ECCMA confirming that they have received or have access to data in eOTDr-XML (ISO 22745-40) format encoded to the eOTD. Effectively it is the ECCMA members who request that ECCMA register the supplier and issue an ECCMA 8000 certificate. We anticipate a nominal $25 data verification and certificate origination payable by the supplier for a certificate that is valid for one year. As part of the process ECCMA will create a registry of ECCMA 8000 certified suppliers and we are also working with DLIS on a concept that would allow certified suppliers to register a hyperlink to a catalog and trading partner profile in eOTDr-XML. Dr. Radack is fine tuning the eOTDr-XML schema and we are developing test data, which along with the community edition catalog builder from Pilog, will ensure that any business can create ISO 8000 compliant catalogs in eOTDr-XML with minimal effort.

Melissa has done a great job creating the logo, Dan and Sheron are hard at work building the registries that will support certification and Amber and I are working on collateral materials that ECCMA members can use to promote ECCMA 8000 certification to their suppliers. Finally, we have developed a two hour ISO 8000 briefing designed to explain the benefits of implementing the new stan-dard for master data quality. (See page 9 for more information)


ECCMA Member ProfileECCMA Member ProfileECCMA Member Profile

Title (Position): Partner

Country: United Kingdom

Years in Cataloging: I started working on the subject in early 2002, and attended my first ECCMA conference in Washington that year.

Q: Describe your career path. How did you get to where you are today?

My background is in industrial supply and repair. I have managed distribution depots, run asset management contracts, and on site integrated supply arrange-ments for international blue chip companies. I started working for myself in late 2001 and formed EMIC associates in the spring of 2004.

Q: What about your particular career path do you find is of most value in your role as a cataloger?

My background in dealing with industrial parts. I have been associated with sourcing, purchasing, managing, and supplying these parts, so I have the knowl-edge of both sides of the supply chain, and the data requirements of both parties.

Q: What is the biggest challenge catalogers face today?

Making sure clients do not overload themselves with unnecessary data.

Nice to have data is not the same as need to have data.

Q: What is most rewarding about your job?

A satisfied client, who asks us back to do more work in other areas of our expertise.

Q: Favorite outside interests?

Sports, family and travel, not necessarily in that order!

Q: Are you working on any projects that include the use of eOTD, if so what are they?

We are in the early discussion stages with two clients who wish to clean their data, and we are currently managing their requirements. See answer to previous question!

“Nice to have data is not the

same as need to have data.”

Peter Eales

EMIC associates Knighton House, Ashley Lane

Hordle, Lymington S041 0GB

www.emicassociates.co.uk

Want to be Included? If you would like to be included in a

future Member Profile, please

contact [email protected].


Does the UNSPSC have definitions? Not at the commodity level but there are some definitions at the higher levels. The UNSPSC is a hierarchical classification and as such does not typi-cally have definitions. You may want to consider using the eOTD to find the right class (commodity) and then look up the UNSPSC. Most classes in the eOTD have definitions as well as translations and multiple classifications so you can look up either the UNSPSC or any one of several classifications.

Are Identification Guides specific to an organization or are they shared between organizations?

Identification guides or cataloging templates are used by an organization to specify what data they need; typically a buyer will give an identification guide to its suppliers. If a buyer is building an identification guide they will typically use an existing one and modify it, very much as you would do with a word template. ECCMA is building a registry of Identification Guides so a buyer can simply inform their suppliers where to obtain it from. Many organizations work together on the development of identification guides such as in the mining and service industries.

We are interested in using the UNSPSC coding system and would like to find out more about the system and what is involved in implementing the system.

The UNSPSC is a hierarchical classification or group class; it is used to group like items together traditionally for analyzing expenditure. There are several ways of imple-menting the UNSPSC, the first and the most obvious is to add the UNSPSC code to descriptions so that you can group these together. This is similar to adding an account code with the advantage that the UNSPSC is already organized in a hierarchy. This works well if the UNSPSC hierarchy fits your requirements and you are the one assign-ing the UNSPSC code. If you are not assigning the code you still need to verify that the code is correct. Typically companies find that they need to analyze their expendi-ture somewhat differently than the “standard” so over time they build their own classi-fication. Our recommendation is that companies use the eOTD class identifier as this allows them to analyze their expenditure according to their own or any of the classifica-tions that they may be required to use in reporting such as the CPV in Europe.

Help, I can’t find this characteristic in the eOTD? If you can not find a suitable eOTD class you can request that one be added. Making additions to the eOTD requires that a consensus process be followed and we can help identify the appropriate organization to process the request. A term and a definition is required to add a concept to the eOTD. Guidelines for developing these terms and definitions can be found in ISO 22745-11.

Why is ISO 8000 being created? While buyers are looking to improve the quality of their master data (vendor, material, service masters), many vendors have also realized that data integration with their key customers is an excellent way of creating and maintaining long term relationships. ISO 8000 allows both parties to adopt a common standard for the exchange of master data. ISO 8000 is still under development but there are expected to be three levels or con-formance classes. The first deals with the intrinsic quality of the data itself such as syntax and semantic encoding, this level is very easy to implement using the eOTD. The second deals with provenance or the origin of the data. The third deals with measuring data accuracy. ECCMA is introducing a certification process under which a buyer can request that ECCMA issue an ECCMA 8000 Master Data Quality Certifi-cate to suppliers that have implemented the eOTD. The certificate is valid for one year.

How do you differentiate and delineate the three separate functions of identification, descrip-

tion and classification? Identification is about assigning a reference number that can be used to identify an item. There are two common levels of identification, the first identifies a unique item such as a serial number of a computer or a VIN number for a car (the license plate number actually identifies the owner), the second identifies a group of items such as a part number or model number. While serial numbers are used for asset tracking, part numbers are used for ordering. Description consists in describing something so that it can be dis-tinguished from or grouped with others through its form or function. De-scriptions can be free form or structured. The quality of a description is meas-ured by the degree to which it fulfills its function – search for example. Struc-tured descriptions are typically made up from property value pairs that de-scribe the characteristics of an item (individual, organization, location, or service). The key to a good description is ensuring that the concepts used in a description (properties, units of measure, enumerated values) are explicitly labeled, this is what the eOTD is for. A classification or group class is a hier-archy used to group items that share similar characteristics. A classification typically has many levels and can be compared to a tree that starts with a trunk which branches out to its leaves. The leaves are the lowest level of the classification and the trunk is the highest, sometimes you hear programmers talking about the leaf node, this just means the lowest level of data. A com-pany’s chart of accounts is a form of classification. By their very nature, classi-fications are orders that serve a specific purpose and you can not use a classi-fication designed for one purpose to serve another. Classifications typically cover specific domains and exclude others. For example, the customs classifi-cation used for import and export tariffs does not cover services, as the move-ment of services can not be controlled at boarders (they are working on it).

Do you plan to go to OWL? There have been projects proposed to use OWL to improve the concept definitions in the eOTD. This would allow the eOTD to be used more effec-tively for creating structured descriptions. Currently the eOTD concept en-coding is the best way to create unambiguous computer processable specifica-tions.

What is ISO 22745?

The current official title of ISO 22745 is open technical dictionaries and their application to cataloging. Like most standards ISO 22745 is made up of many parts and each part deals with specific issues. One part deals with the management of an open technical dictionary, another part deals with recom-mendations for developing terminology. Also included in ISO 22745 are specific XML schemas for the exchange of data encoded to an open technical dictionary as well as an XML schema for describing data requirements (Identification Guide) and for the resolu-tion of encoded concepts. Any pro-grammer looking to implement the eOTD would find the technical information they need in ISO 22745.

Questions & Answers

Standard Dilemma? If you have a question about: stan-

dards for cataloging, quality data, ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 send them to

[email protected]


“I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way, and you’ve got to have the drive and determina-tion to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.”

Chuck Norris

If you are interested in participating or hosting an eOTD cataloging course or an ISO 8000 briefing, please contact Amber Davis at

[email protected]

ISO 8000 Executive Briefings

This two hour briefing focuses on the fundamentals of ISO 8000 compli-ance and the steps to data quality to your hometown. Each briefing is de-signed to answer questions as to the scope and compliance requirements as well as collect input for the standard developers as we put the final touches to the standard itself. • If you receive data from your suppliers, this new ISO standard will not

only help you get the data you need but ensure that it will be a reliable integration into your systems at a low cost.

• If you provide data to your customers, this new ISO standard will allow you to identify yourself as a provider of quality data.

• For all, this is a unique opportunity to learn about ISO 8000 from the project leader as well as influence the development of the standard itself.

Coming Soon to a Town Near You!

For a complete listing of upcoming ISO 8000 Breakfast Briefings visit our website www.eccma.org

“I think it has evolved in the right direction. I have been fa-miliar with eOTD since 2003.”

Kirk Pandit

Mr. Peter Eales from EMIC associates gave an eOTD presentation on Monday January 29th at a

workshop hosted by L’Hoist in their HQ. The assembled audience was a mixture of engineering

and purchasing staff from plants in Belgium, Germany, The Czech Republic, Poland, France,

and the USA.

Kirk Pandit, VP Content Services, of Emptoris was asked:

Overall, how satisfied are you with the eOTD?

Improving the Quality of Master Data ECCMA Technical Short Course

This 2 1/2 day course is designed for inventory, procurement and supply chain mangers that are looking for better cataloging and content manage-ment. Understanding total assets availability and keeping inventory accurate.

For more detailed information including the course agenda please visit:

www.eccma.org.

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“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” -Henry Ford

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