Odette is responding to the
growing needs for unique identification in the Automotive Industry
and will shortly be launching
the OSCAR service. OSCAR stands
for the ‘Odette System
for Coding And Registration’.
The
OSCAR service will deliver a high
quality solution which meets the requirements for unique
identification in Auto
ID/RFID,
OFTP and EDI, and at a later date, UPIK (Unique Part Identification
Key) and the Odette Partner Identification Database (PID)
recommendation.
| In the future, OSCAR will
also provide the possibility
for the exchange of partner related
data via EDI
(using XML messages). |
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OSCAR will:
- issue codes for use in:
- AutoID/RFID
- Consignment ID (Licence Plate)
- Asset ID (e.g. Containers)
- Product ID (Parts Marking)
- EDI messaging
- Technical Partner ID (Sender/Receiver)
- Business process related Party ID (NAD
ID)
- File transfer station identification (OFTP)
- maintain Business Entity Datasets
- provide Business Entity Datasets
for use in Partner Databases
Odette is already officially recognised
as a Code Issuing Organisation within two of the most relevant
and influential
ISO standards in the area of unique identification:
- ISO 15459 – Information Technology – Unique
Identifiers (Parts 1 – 6)
- ISO 6523 – Data Interchange – Structures for the
identification of organisations (Parts 1 & 2)
The Odette Code, recognised by both of the above standards,
consists of 4 alphanumeric characters which will
be used to identify main business organisational units
(legal companies
and individual business units).
There is also the possibility (recognised by ISO
6523) to add a 2 character alphanumeric suffix
to the main
4 character
code
in order to identify sub-entities. Odette will
use this suffix to allow companies to register individual
codes
for sub-organisations
(e.g. receiving locations, loading docks, purchasing
department, invoicing function, etc) within their
main business organisations.
Organisation codes are often used in the automotive
industry as a key element in the identification
of various entities,
for example:
- Trading partners
- Locations, business functions and departments
within a company
- Logistics handling units
- Company assets
- Individual parts/components
- Computer network addresses
- Engineering changes
- and more…...
Currently, there is a very confused and
heterogeneous situation within
the industry, with companies
identifying the above
entities using a mixture of
their own organisation codes and codes provided
by external organisations such
as Dun & Bradstreet
or GS1/ePC.
Companies have to maintain
a large number of codes of
varying
formats
and lengths.
Even
if these codes
can be understood
in individual trading relationships,
there is no way that they
can be understood by
other parties
in the
Supply Chain,
such
as logistics service providers,
customs officials, network
providers etc.
There is a growing need for
a unique identification
of these
entities
linked to factors such
as:
- More stringent traceability
requirements
- Increased incidence
of automatic data
capture (especially using
RFID)
- Introduction of
new technology
demands on
unique identification
are growing.
If you want
to use
RFID, or a License
Plate on labels,
it is mandatory
to use unique identification.
OSCAR is an
easy to use web-based system. The combination
of user-driven Odette recommendations
and a professional, cost efficient service, provides a major
added value benefit to our Industry.
If anyone is concerned
about having to make costly internal changes, the introduction
of the OSCAR code
will not require an immediate change of running systems in
companies. It can be applied
in areas where the need is most urgent (e.g. returnable container
identification) and then extended to other applications
as required.
OSCAR is currently
undergoing final testing and will go live from April 2009. It
will be accessible worldwide from the
Odette and National Organisations’ websites. In the
meantime, if you have any questions or want to know more,
please contact:
info@odette.org
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