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

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