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Procurement Categories - click on any category to see all Procurement documents

• Sourcing
  • Pre-award
    • Tendering
    • Catalogue
  • Post-award
    • Tendering
    • Catalogue
    • Quotation and Punchout
• Ordering
• Fulfilment
• Billing and Invoicing
  • Freight Billing
  • Utility Billing
• Payment
• Replenishment
  • Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment
  • Vendor Managed Inventory
    • Cyclic Replenishment Program
• General

Transportation Categories - click on any category to see all Transportation documents

• International Freight Management
• Freight Status
• Origin of Goods
• Intermodal Freight Management

OASIS UBL is the internationally-standardized ISO/IEC 19845, a specification for a suite of common business documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and a concrete XML syntax (using XSD or RNC) for expressing those documents in a machine-readable format. It is flexible enough to include your own business objects and XML syntax as extensions. It is structured in such a way that you can make your own business documents utilizing a common library of business objects.

ISO/IEC 19845 / OASIS UBL is not owned by any application vendor, it is owned by the not-for-profit consortium Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards and developed by the Universal Business Language Technical Committee. UBL can be downloaded for free and without encumbrances and without having to register in advance or even notify OASIS or ISO of its use. It can be used by commercial products. It can be used by private projects, internal or public. The two normative parts of UBL are the semantic definitions of the components and the W3C Schema expressions.

As a reassurance to users and to developers that UBL can be used safely and without future obligation, the OASIS copyright expressly states "The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be revoked by OASIS or its successors or assigns." Please see the complete copyright text for further details.

The ISO/IEC 19845:2015 package is simply the OASIS UBL 2.1 package with an ISO cover page at the beginning of the PDF file. The OASIS directory has the canonical files that were went to ISO for packaging.

Mr. Jon Bosak, former co-chair of the OASIS UBL Technical Committee (TC) and internationally-recognized "Father of XML", published this executive summary of UBL 2.1 evoking a strong and enthusiastic OASIS member voter turnout.

Mr. Tim McGrath, former co-chair of the OASIS UBL TC published this reasoning for creating an international e-document standard.

Mr. G. Ken Holman, current chair of the OASIS UBL TC and a resident in North America published Open specifications open marketplaces! in an attempt to persuade the Canadian and US Governments to abandon traditional approaches of specifying procurement applications in favour of the European example of specifying business interoperability interfaces instead.

As of September 2017, the U.S. Federal Reserve is looking into the "next steps" of e-invoicing XML business document standards.

In November 2017, Mr. Holman published the essay Wake up, Canada, to the US Fed supported BPC and standardized electronic invoicing! with the opinion that Canadian banks, companies and governments should join the Business Payments Coalition, supported by the US Federal Reserve, to collaboratively define a single standards-based e-invoicing interoperability framework for use across all business in both countries.



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