ICT and e-Business in the Pulp, Paper and Paper ... - empirica

Pulp, paper and paper products
according to the business needs and the additional new market segments being
addressed.
4.1.5 Success factors
The primary success factors in papiNet’s emergence as the global e-business standard
for the P&P industry relate to
decentralised development and implementation, focusing on key market
segments in the region and their specific semantic issues,
clear messaging interoperability strategy supported by a strong basis in stable
message standards (ebXML and AS2 66 ),
effective cross-sectoral partnerships, and
no certification overheads.
Decentralised development and implementation infrastructure
Since its earliest incarnation, papiNet® has been an effective collaborative initiative
between European and North American companies. According to Art Coleman, Drybridge
Consulting (www.drybridge.com) and papiNet® Technical Director, one of the main
reasons for success is the decentralisation of the standards development and
implementation process in a global environment: “We have geographically oriented
market segment implementation groups (SIGs). This collaborative structure to
communicate developments works quite well. For example in Europe we have strong
Fine Paper and Packaging SIGs and in North America the Book Manufacturing and
Publication Papers are the dominant SIGs”.
Messaging interoperability
papiNet® standard Version 1.0 allowed for different messaging standards. This included
the original EPC Messenger 67 developed as part of the first European implementations.
Standard version 2 has kept pace with international standards developments and has
firmly established ebMS (the ebXML Messaging Service) as the interoperability
messaging core. 68
Exhibit 4-6 illustrates the approach to ensuring interoperability while allowing continued
flexibility in choice of different messaging standards. Messaging interoperability is
achieved when the discrete papiNet® payload can be unwrapped from its various
envelopes. Trading partners can use the particular message service of their choice.
Guidelines for the formation of the message enveloping and hence the business and
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67
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MIME-Based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange Using HTTP, Applicability
Statement 2 (AS2), see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4130.txt
A tool developed by Ponton Consulting for Enterprise-Application-Integration (EAI) between
business partners. Ponton X/P is an ebXML 2.0 compliant Messaging Service that allows
secure exchange of signed (and encrypted) XML documents between business partners.
Interoperability Guidelines, May 2004.
www.papinet.org/V2R20/200401/documents/InterOpGuidelinesV2R30.pdf
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