CWA 15556-3:2006

Product Description and Classification - Part 3: Results of development in harmonization of product classifications and in multilingual electronic catalogues and their respective data modelling CWA 15556-3:2006

Scope

This document contains the results of the efforts and discussion carried out within GenePDC in 2005 with different organization owning/managing systems for product classification used in eBusiness to seek the converenge towards a common base.

It covers the following topics :

- harmonization of product classification
- maintenace of existing classification schemes
- organization of harmonization process
- toolset for maintaining system of product classification
- methodology for harmonization
- multilingual electronic catalogues and their respective data modeling
- case of the German automotive aftermarket