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Abstract
Today's suppliers, consumer packaged goods companies, manufacturers, and wholesalers face many challenges. Each year, 20 000 new food and non-food Universal Product Code (UPC) items are created and it typically takes 10 to 30 days to get these new items and price changes to market. Data elements that describe these individual items may change up to four times per year. Furthermore, nearly three out of five orders placed need to be revisited and reworked before completion. To meet these escalating data demands on suppliers, UCCnet has implemented multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communications. A subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council Inc., UCCnet is a neutral industry organization that implements these standards by requiring its community of trading partners to provide standardized item data in particular formats to its registry.
This IBM Redbook covers IBM WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization, which is designed for mid-market suppliers pursuing supply chain integration through the UCCnet GLOBALregistry.
Table of contents
Part 1. Overview
Chapter 1. UCCnet
Chapter 2. AS2 communications
Chapter 3. WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization
Chapter 4. iSoft Peer-to-Peer Agent
Chapter 5. Business case and scenario
Part 2. Install and configure
Chapter 6. About some of the key components
Chapter 7. WebSphere BI Express installation and verification
Chapter 8. WebSphere BI Express configuration
Chapter 9. Configuration for integration of back-end system
Chapter 10. Configure the AS2 connection
Chapter 11. Final configuration and test from end-to-end
Appendix A. Getting started with UCCnet
Appendix B. Our sample messages
Appendix C. Additional material