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UBL

General Info

Site: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ublImage Removed

Current Version: 2.0

Detailed info archive: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.0.zipImage Removed

Parts of the Standard to Implement

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OAGIS is a standard created by the Open Applications Group.

Site: http://www.oagi.org/Image Removed

Current version: 9.3

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Current Usage in OFBiz

The following messages are implemented in the specialpurpose/oagis component:

  1. Confirm BOD (send and receive)
  2. Process Shipment (send)
  3. Receive Delivery (Send)
  4. Sync Inventory (receive)
  5. Show Shipment (receive)
  6. Acknowledge Delivery (receive), for PO, RMA, Status Change

There is a service defined for each of these in the specialpurpose/oagis/servicedef/services.xml file.

Note that these were implemented against and older version of OAGIS: 7.2.1

XBRL

General Info

The general idea here is that instead of creating PDF or other reports (or in addition to the basic PDF reports) we can use these as a standardized structure for financial reporting. I've read about XBRL over the years and from what I can tell in the last couple of years it has really become commonly used among companies large and small for internal reporting as well as reporting to government agencies in many parts of the world, and for sharing financials informations with partners (more accounting firms and such than suppliers or customers, just to clarify).

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Technical information about the XML document structures and such is here (look at the first section, for XBRL 2.1): http://www.xbrl.org/SpecRecommendations/Image Removed

Parts of the Standard to Implement

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1. IFRS-GP 2006: International Financial Reporting Standards General Purpose Financial Reporting for Profit-Oriented Entities http://xbrl.iasb.org/int/fr/ifrs/gp/2006-08-15/summary_page.htmlImage Removed

2. US-GAAP-CI: United States Generally Accepted Accounting Practices for Commercial and Industrial http://www.xbrl.org/us/fr/gaap/ci/2005-02-28/us-gaap-ci%20Summary%20Page.htmImage Removed

3. XBRL GL: General Ledger Taxonomy http://www.xbrl.org/GLTaxonomy/Image Removed

The first two are more for reporting that can actually be delivered to government and other agencies, and used with tools internally for visualization and such. The third will allow us to export financial information in a standard way that can then be combined with financial information from other systems for reporting. For large organizations this could be the key to letting OFBiz run everything it is responsible for and then export financial data in a standard way so the corporation can use XBRL compatible tools to combine it with information from other systems and such.

A more general list of financial reporting taxonomies is available here: http://www.xbrl.org/FRTaxonomies/Image Removed

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