A new CEN Workshop, based on TRICK project results, to enhance traceability and sustainability data collection in textile and clothing supply chains will start with its kick-off meeting on December 5th. This initiative is one of the main outcomes of TRICK European project in terms of contribution to standardization, and aims at supporting all the actors of the supply chain in their preparation for the incoming regulations and DPP.
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The main objective of this CEN Workshop is to deliver a pre-standard document with the objective to establish guidelines to enable and optimize data collection along textile and clothing supply chains, improving traceability, transparency and sustainability claims, in line with European regulations and strategies. The CWA will be valuable for companies’ decision makers, IT solutions providers, experts in sustainability, as well as industry trade organizations, industry policymakers and, in general, all the stakeholders in the ecosystem around the textile and clothing supply chains (like logistic operators or auditors, waste collectors and recyclers).
The participation to the event is for free but it is required to register sending an email to Fabio Rossi (UNI) at fabio.rossi@uni.com More details about the event and its related documentation can be found on CEN’s announcement.
For those not familiar with CEN standardization committees, a CEN Workshop is a path to create pre-standard documents (guidelines, use cases, resources of any kind) on a specific topic, before or in addition to standardization activities.
In this case ENEA, UNI and the Trick project partners are starting a process to share and publicly release both the experience and new knowledge generated by the industrial pilots performed in the project and the guidelines and data models designed and tested in the project. An added value is then the involvement and possible contributions of other projects working on some specific aspects of circularity (CISUTAC, PESCO-UP) or on the design of the Digital Product Passport (CIRCTHREAD), as well as the relationships with standardization committees and working groups such as CEN TC248/WG39 on circular economy for textiles. Finally, it should be noted that the launch of the initiative, which will last a few months, was characterized by a positive and collaborative climate that demonstrated the willingness to cooperate to solve problems and the appreciation for the "open mind" approach of the promoters.
Why should industry and solution providers be interested in this "standardization expert game"? The reason is that the well known difficulties in data gathering along complex and fragmented supply chains can be tackled only with an common effort for standardisation to lower the barriers and costs of its implementation. This initiative does not start from scratch: the GS1 well known EPCIS model, the UNECE work on sustainable and transparent fashion supply chains, the eBIZ sectorial specification promoted by Euratex and Enea since 2013 (www.ebiz.enea.it and ebiz.tcf.eu) are all fondations at the basis of the current work. Follow this activity and register to participate and contribute, even just with a comment (it is free and the final result will be public heritage and available to all) A special thanks to Carla Fité Galan (UPC) and Gessica Ciaccio (ENEA) to manage this initiative together with Fabio Rossi (UNI)
A presentation of eBIZ benefits for the fashion supply chains explained by entrepreneurs and technician of the firms already adopting it:
IN.CO, Cariaggi, Piacenza, Loro Piana, Albini and others.
eBusiness is based on digital data and documents exchanged between IT systems of firms.
Adoption of a standard language and of shared procedures offers to firms immediate advantages,
like costs and errors reduction as well as time and labour savings.
In respect of proprietary formats, a standard language facilitates the creation of new eBusiness relationships and cuts maintenance costs, in parallel it assures
good scalability for future uses.
The current eBIZ Reference Architecture has a chapter dedicated to RFID technology adoption.
Who uses RFID technology for logistic optimisation gets great advantages by connecting RFID and eBIZ technology.
RFID enables logistics optimization (picking, goods delivery, ecc.), the parallel adoption of eBIZ
allows to share advantages with the commercial partners, from inventory reporting to despacth advice anticipating the physical flow o freights.
Sinergy between flows of digital information supported by eBIZ and traceability actions for anti-counterfeiting initiatives and for contrasting parallel sales channels are highly interesting.
'If I have sell-out data…'
'If I have a faithful inventory report, I could activate a never-out-of-stock service …'
'If the warehouse systems had the list of freights going to be delivered …'
'Se non dovessi continuamente richiamare al telefono per avere le date delle consegne …'
'Suppliers fill data on IT systems when they have the time, often in a uncomplete way …'
'Each order is uploaded manually and sometimes we get an error…'
'The solution could be nice but our supplier does not want to invest so much for me only …'
'each customer ask for the same information but with a different format and different procedures …'
In order to setup eBIZ you should, firstly, identify the collaboration processes that have to be implemented prioritarily.
Later, through the Reference Architecture of eBIZ, the job of the IT manager to adapt the company information system to eBIZ is facilitated.
ENEA CROSS-TEC laboratory aims to support firms in new technologies adoption.
In the framework of its institutional activities, the laboratory can help you and your IT providers to understand opportunities and advantages of adopting eBIZ in your business.
For more information or to receive further material you can contact the laboratory responsible: piero.desabbata@enea.it
Launched by European Commission, eBIZ-TCF project (2008-2010) was co-ordinated by EURATEX (European Confederation of textile and apparel
industry) with the support of CEC (European Confederation of footwear industry) and ENEA, and developed a
Reference Architecture for data exchanges that is publicly available and based on the harmonisation of experiences and results from Moda-ML,
Shoenet and GS1.
Launched at CEN (European Committee for Standardisation) in 2012, CEN Workshop eBIZ is an European standardisation
initiative, promoted by EURATEX with the support of ENEA, with the aim of improve eBIZ results and
foster a more extended adoption in the fashion industry. The Workshop lasted for 18 months and was the opportunity for stakeholder to work jointly and propose new developments
(for example to better support RFID usage).
eBIZ 4.0 is an European COSME project, launched on December 2016 and addressing the joint adoption of eBIZ and RFID in the European supply chains. The project is based on three industrial pilots in Spain, Italy and France.
Since June 2013 the Reference Architecture, version 2.0, is available as CEN WS Agreement (CEN CWA 16667), up-to-date and supporting new market requirements, as identified
by an international experts group working in the framework of CEN. Among the other novelties, beyond RFID, there contributions from GS1 about business
collaboration models between producers and retail organisations.
Compared with previous 2010 version (click here ),
the new eBIZ Reference Architecture 2.0 for eBusiness harmonisation in Textile/Clothing and Footwear sectors"
has new contents related to:
A method to represent and classify Business Models,
Production Scenarios for customised footwear products for fashion and for health,
Cross-organisation RFID adoption support,
Electronic eInvoice,
Test and compliance checking,
Yarn techical properties modelling and management in supply relationships,
