Call for participation for our upcoming E-Invoicing Working Group

We issued a call for participation for our upcoming OAGIS X E-Invoicing Sub-Working Group today.

This Sub-Working Group is open to all OAGi Members in good standing. The goals, scope and time-frame are just below.  If you are not yet a member, we welcome you to learn more here or contact us here.

We will be meeting on every Wednesday from 1 - 3 PM Eastern US time starting on Wednesday, February 1, 2011.

Please let us know your intention to participate by responding to us here. The first meeting will be used to review the scope and get agreement from the team.

You do not need to sign the Project Definition if your organization has a signature on file for the OAGIS X Working Group.

Thank you and look for the WebEx announcement early next week.

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OAGIS X Sub Working Group - Invoicing

Group Definition and Scope

• Review and update all processes, messages and details (components) needed to address increasingly diverse methods of invoicing worldwide.  The team will determine the processes they need supported, but a list of possible processes include but are not limited to:
  - E-Invoicing
  - Batch Invoicing
  - Interoperating with EDI
  - Sub-Contracting
  - Inter-company
  - Customer and Supplier view of Invoicing
   
• Group will not address payments except in the effect on the invoicing process
   
• Group will build on previous work with the possibility of requesting the reopening of such work if needed - but leaving actual deliverables to those groups
   
• Deliverables:
  - A Master Scenario that will be used to guide sub-processes creation
  - List of all messages needed and their description
  - Updates to individual message content and component content as needed
  - Identification of any new messages required but not the construction of them.
    These will be deferred to another future Working Group

Big Year Coming Up in 2012

OAGi News - Big Year Coming Up in 2012

OAGi ended the year with a great Plenary Session in Redwood City on November 16 and 17 with a lot of excitement around our Mobile Business and Cloud Computing initiatives.   Our topics included:

- The Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Initiative for OAGi
- Special Presentation from Oracle
- OAGIS Case Studies
- OAGi Updates and briefings on Council activities
- Mobile Business and Cloud Computing Panel "B2B with Mobile and the Cloud."

Remember OAGi members can download the presentations and the videos on the members only portion of the OAGi web site here and non-members can download the presentations here.

You can also see some pictures taken during the meetings here.

Webinars coming in 2012

We will be conducting several educational webinars in 2012, including our first planned webinar entitled, “Best Practices for Extending OAGIS BODs.”   There will be an announcement on this webinar soon.

All webinars will be recorded and will be made available to our members for free and to non-members for a nominal fee.

OAGi is co-sponsoring the annual ARC World Industry Forum Feb. 6 – 9 in Orlando

OAGi is co-sponsoring the upcoming 16^th Annual ARC World Industry Forum to be held February 6-9 (time is running out, make your arrangements now) in Orlando, Florida.  This year’s forum has many executive speakers and OAGi members are entitled to a 50% discount from the meeting fee.  Some of the topics at this year’s forum include:

- Mobility Solutions for Industry

- Cloud Computing for Industry

- Supply Chain Integrity and Brand Protection

- Collaboration and Social Media

- Operational Excellence for Power Generation

- Sustainable Operational Excellence Solutions

- Latest Innovations in Virtual Production

We invite you to go to the website to learn more and register.  The website is here.

OAGi Website is now fully supports Mobile Devices

We recently upgraded the OAGi website technology to fully support your mobile devices.  We invite you to try us out on your mobile device here.

OAGIS Release 9.6 is coming in the first half of 2012.

The scope of this upcoming release includes results from following Working Groups:

- Export Compliance Work Group
- Cisco Configuration updates to Quote and Purchase Order.
- iBaseT Manufacturing Nouns
- Oracle Supply Chain Management contribution

We are planning a 45 day Public Review Period with a 45 day internal review after that.  This release is schedule to be shipped in second quarter of 2012.  Stay tuned for more information on this upcoming OAGIS release.

OAGIS Release 10 work continues with five ongoing initiatives

The OAGIS Release Ten (OAGIS X) Working Groups continue to meet on a regular basis and we encourage your participation.  We can use all the smart people we can get!  The meetings include:

Architecture – Every Friday, 9 AM to 11 AM Eastern Time
Catalog to Return Content – Wednesday, 1:00 PM to 3 PM EDT
HR Content – Every other Thursday, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Chemical Industry Gap Analysis – Three Thursdays a month, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Context – Tuesday, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT

All of these meeting are visible on our OAGi Calendar on the members part of the web site here.  You need to be logged in to view the members calendar.

All OAGi members are invited to join any of these groups.  If you are interested in joining any of these Working Groups, please contact me here.

Meeting Calendar for 2012

Stay tuned for final dates for these upcoming meetings in 2012.  We are also planning several new webinars, details coming soon.

Policy Board Meeting – Planned	April 24, 2012	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups - Planned	April 25 - 26, 2012	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Policy Board Meeting Planned	November 13, 2012	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Plenary and Working Groups Completed	November 14 - 15, 2012	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA.

European Meeting

We are working determining these dates and will announce them as soon as possible.

TBD

TBD

Resuming the OAGIS X Context Calls January 3, 2012

I am pleased to announce that Jim Wilson from our Chemical Industry and Agricultural Industry  communities has stepped up to lead the OAGi Context Working Group.

He will be succeeding Scott Hinkelman, who has led it very well these past months. Unfortunately, Scott has been reassigned to other duties so we thank him for his efforts and wish him well.

This Working Group has been working to develop an OAGIS X implementation of the UN/CEFACT Context Methodology.

We will be resuming our meetings on Tuesdays from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time starting January 3rd. If you have already signed the OAGIS X Project Definition, you do not need to sign another.

Please write us here if you are interested in more information.

OAGi November 16 Plenary Videos now available

I am pleased to announce that the WebEx video and audio recordings from our OAGi Plenary Meeting on November 16 in Redwood City, California are now available.

You can view the agenda and download the presentations and the video recordings on the members section of our website.

You must be logged in to access the webpage. Please let me know if you have trouble logging in.

The link to the webpage is here.

Thank you for your continued support

OAGi Plenary Keynote Presentation now Available

I am pleased to announce that the Keynote Presentation from our November 15 Plenary Meeting in Redwood City, California is now available. 

Special thanks to Jean-Claude Monney of Microsoft for doing the presentation and then including the text of the presentation along with the slides. All of the other presetnation are also available as well.

You can review the agenda and download any of the presentations here.

Also, stay tuned for our upcoming video announcement. We will soon be making several of the session available to our members.

Thank you for your continued support.

Great Plenary Meeting last week

Our Plenary Meeting last week was a tremendous success. We had a great crowd in the room and 20+ more persons attending remotely.

We also had a very exciting Agenda and now the presentations are available on our web site.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED

- Using OAGIS in the Cloud
- Special Presentation from Oracle
- OAGIS Case Studies
- OAGi Updates and briefings on Council activities
- Cloud Computing Panel "B2B and Cloud Computing."

You can view the agenda download the presentations here.

OAGi Webinar next Wednesday, November 9

We are pleased to announce that the OAGi Chemical Industry Council is sponsoring the third in their 2011 series of 3 webinars on OAGi and OAGIS.

You are invited to attend this 35 minute webinar entitled "Introduction to OAGIS". The webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 9 at Noon in the Eastern US Time Zone.

This webinar will feature Mike Rowell, OAGi Chief Architect, and he will be presenting a high level overview of the architecture within the OAGIS Open Standard.

This webinar is open to all, members and non-members alike and there is no cost.

You can register for this webinar for free here.

Thank you and we look forward to your attendance.