The proliferation of customer B2B portals and the requirement for suppliers to maintain their own company data in customer systems via these portals has brought the issue of customer specific identifications and database requirements into sharp focus. Through Odette, several European OEMs and major Tier1 suppliers have worked together to develop a recommendation for a universal partner identification code and a common basic company dataset that can be exchanged electronically with all customers in the automotive industry.

The Partner Identification & Database (PID) Recommendation consists of 3 main elements:

• A universal party identification scheme to replace the current multitude of customer allocated identifiers
• A standard dataset that should satisfy the basic supplier information requirements of most automotive customers
• A set of XML message specifications that can be used by suppliers to exchange this data with customers in order to create or modify their company records in their customers’ databases.

Odette is promoting the implementation of the PID Recommendation by its member companies and is happy to assist in the deployment of any pilot project between Odette members.

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