Welcome to our ‘Autumn Newsletter’ and I hope you have had a good summer. In this edition we bring you news of the latest Odette publications, implementations of Odette standards and other activities which have been taking place in the Odette community over the past few months.

We have several interesting stories relating to the release and implementation of global automotive standards. These, as many of you will know, are produced in close co-operation with our colleagues in North America and Japan, collectively known as the Joint Automotive Industry Forum (or JAIF for short).

The advance of the Global MMOG/Logistics Evaluation seems unstoppable as it gains more language versions and new training providers are appointed outside of Europe. You’ll find details of these inside.

OFTP2 continues to grow in popularity around the world and we have a special feature on company implementation use-cases and the recently published report entitled ‘Comparison of File Transfer Alternatives for B2B Data Exchanges’.

Our Conference in Lyon in May was a great success and we are now firming up plans for our next Conference which will be held in Berlin towards the end of 2012.
Next month we are holding a Strategic Supply Chain Workshop in Dusseldorf, Germany. Senior automotive supply chain managers from around Europe are coming together to explore areas of possible future collaboration. The results from this important event will be published in the next edition of Outlook and should provide strong indicators for the future direction for Odette.

It’s going to be a busy time for us all in the months ahead.

With best wishes,

John Canvin
Managing Director