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Newsletter Issue No 6 - January 2013
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Newsletter Issue No 5 - September 2012
Latest news on auto-gration
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Newsflash
After the successful conclusion of the first phase of the auto-gration project, … more
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auto-gration - ensuring the future
CLEPA hosts first meeting of the newly formed auto-gration Joint Working Group. … more
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Stuttgart success for auto-gration
The Stuttgart event fully demonstrated the business benefits that auto-gration c … more
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A first French SME pilots auto-gration in the automotive supply chain
‘It is essential for us to use EDI with our customers but it is not possible: … more
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auto-gration in the Basque Country
On November 15th, the Basque Country Automotive Cluster (ACICAE) and ODETTE Spai … more
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Auto-gration at GS1 Best Practice Day
Each year, GS1 Germany holds a best practice day on eInvoicing and, given the re … more
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MIDEST 2011 – Strategic Conference
auto-gration Partner, CEGID, will host a conference at MIDEST 2011, the No1 show … more
auto-gration: Assisting SMEs to participate in global digital supply chains in the automotive sector
Currently, any company wishing to do eBusiness with others in the automotive supply chain must have a compatible communication system. If not, then the company has to either purchase a new system, hire an external message-conversion service, or resort to manual (e.g. fax) information exchange, all of which add cost and often create an insurmountable barrier for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
To tackle the problem, the European Commission, supported by major organisations of the automotive industry, has created the auto-gration (automotive integration) project which aims to improve the integration of automotive companies, particularly SMEs, in the sector’s digital supply chains. To this end the project developed the auto-gration Architecture that facilitates the exchange of eBusiness messages over existing, but currently incompatible, systems thereby allowing large companies to keep their current infrastructure investments whilst greatly simplifying and extending eBusiness communications for their smaller business partners.
