The Express Pack aims to help Small and Medium-sized businesses digitize their business processes, leveraging modern techniques that helps accelerate their implementation and provide consistent representation of information across each integration. The diagram below is a high level Order to Cash scenario using a UML Sequence diagram showing the basic view of the Express Pack nouns used in these integration, without detailed implementation considerations. There are key business process areas that are supported:
Order Management
Manufacturing
Logistics
Finance
Each noun in the Express Pack is the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) of data elements and cardinality that will be an accelerator for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises/ Businesses, and their respective software vendors providing solutions to manage supply chain information. SMEs may choose to implement portions of the Express Pack that address their pain-points to provide process efficiencies and value, so they can focus on running the business.
Each noun is a business information entity (BIE) profile managed by the OAGi SME Work Group within the open source Score Tool at oagiscore.net. The open source project is managed on GitHub at OAGi/Score: Score (github.com), and Angular.js, Javascript, and Java developers are invited to contribute to the effort.
Download options include:
JSON Schema for sftp, message oriented middleware, and other non-HTTP transport mechanisms,
OpenAPI Specification for RESTful HTTP implementations, allowing code generation of Servers and Clients using Swagger Editor, and,
XML Schema for legacy middleware implementations,
PlantUML code for the sequence diagram below, so they can edit and adjust to their specific project,
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) collaboration diagram of the customer and supplier business processes that informed the creation of the Express Pack, which can be adapted to the SME business processes for more detail (courtesy of Trisotech.com).
Comma-Separated Value (CSV) representation of the Express Pack noun definitions is on the horizon.
PlantUML code:
Using Hyperlinks (plantuml.com)