Simpl-eBiz™
Introduction
At the March 1998 meeting of the UN/CEFACT Plenary, Tom McGuffog (UK) submitted a paper on developments of Simpler EDI directly related to the principles and practices of value chain management. Tom has published two documents related to the subject area to simplyfy EDI and eBusiness.
In his first publication "KISS - Keep it simple, standard, speedy and certain" Tom McGuffog argues 'that a modern value chain could only achieve optimum speed, certainty and low total cost if joint processes among all participants were simplified and standardised. Furthermore, the greater the degree of simplification and standardisation, the easier it is to apply electronic communications among participants. Indeed, optimum speed, certainty and low total cost can only be realised by applying electronic business to simple, standard processes'.
In his latest publication "B.e.e. - Business enabled electronically" Tom argues 'that business-orientated standards for processes, data, codes, master data and messages are essential pre-requisites to the cost- effective application of e.business, irrespective of the technology. Given these, and the willingness by private and public organisations to collaborate and share data and decisions, e-business is necessary for economic success, though never sufficient of itself'.
Illumonus agrees with Tom that good business practices, driven by business process analysis, will allow users of traditional eBusiness to better understand the business case for migration to Simpl-eBusiness, and for new eBusiness users to better understand the relations and eBusiness messages within their trading communities. This is why Illumonus has developed Simpl-eBiz™.