Introduction
The NIST MOSS Project Worksite is a website developed
by
NIST in cooperation
with the
Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)
Materials Off-Shore Supply Chains (MOSS) project. The Worksite provides tools to validate conformance to the MOSS recommendation, and to
document the relationships among data used to manage ocean freight supply chains.
The MOSS Recommendation is currently in draft form.
Parties involved in the management of ocean freight supply chains include customers and their
suppliers, freight carriers (ocean, rail, and road), freight forwarders and other logistics providers,
consolidators, customs brokers, customs administrators, and others. The scope of data found
on the Worksite includes the data of messages among these parties.
A study motivating the MOSS project (
.ppt .odp) identified an excessive use of paper documents,
faxing, re-keying of data, and consequentially, the introduction of errors and a
loss of shipment visibility. From a perspective on the information involved, current practices
fail to identify where transformations of information (rather than simple reuse) are necessary.
The MOSS Worksite serves to identify the correspondence of information items across the messages
used in the business process.
The sources of data integrated are data in messages relevant to MOSS from
EDIFACT messages, the
World Customs Organization Data Set and
UN Trade Data Element Dictionary.
References
News
- 2008-02-05: Provided access to an early version of conformance testing
tools for EDIFACT MOSS MIGs.
- 2007-12-11: Added access to the Proof of Concept Repository
- 2007-10-31: Added cross-references on UNTDED view pages to the
EDIFACT segments that use the element.
- 2007-02-14: Added a MOSS current state / future state matrix view.
- 2007-02-13: Where EDIFACT specifies a code list for a UNTDED element, a link to that
code list is provided in the UNTDED view.
- 2006-05-13: Development of this site begins.
- 2005-10-27: AIAG MOSS Project kick-off.
Send questions or comments to
se-interop@nist.gov.
Date Created: April 24, 2006
Last Modified: July 24, 2008
