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Introduction

The NIST MOSS Project Worksite is a website developed by NIST in cooperation with the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) as part of its Materials Off-Shore Sourcing (MOSS) Project. This site describes draft versions of the project's EDI messages, and provides tools to validate a software tool's conformance to the message type definitions.

The goal of the MOSS project is to reduce the cost of operating ocean-going US-inbound supply chains of automotive parts by addressing shortcomings in the information used to drive the supply chain's transportation and customs processes.

The project's scope is ocean-going shipments of automotive parts from foreign suppliers to domestic ship-to parties, including order, transport, and customs processes, but excluding payment processes. Though MOSS focused on improving inbound (to the U.S.) ocean trade lanes, the recommended practice may be adapted to benefit outbound and non-US trade lanes.

A presentation describing the the project can be found here: .pdf .odp .ppt

The project intends to delivery four principal documents:

  1. A description of the recommended best practice (in draft)
  2. A cost/benefit analysis of the MOSS solution (completed)
  3. A review of the MOSS Pilot Activity (in draft)
  4. A detailed specification of the message types (in draft)
This website concerns (4) particularly. The menu in the upper left can be used to navigate to the following information:
Introduction: this page.
MOSS Views: Provides descriptions of the draft EDIFACT message type definitions, a tool to present the MOSS Conceptual Model (UML Class diagrams) and their mapping to message content.
Reference Views: Provides Views of the EDIFACT directory message types upon which the MOSS message types were defined, UN Trade Data Element Dictionary, and a draft of the World Customs Organization Data Elements.
Repository: Provides an interface to the version management system containing draft work products of NIST's work on the MOSS project.
Conformance Testing: Provides NIST-developed tools for validating the conformance of message instances to MOSS message conformance criteria.



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Date Created: April 24, 2006
Last Modified: September 23, 2009