UIM - Upstream Integation Model | Print |

testThe UIM describes common business processes and data interchanges to support upstream interoperability between manufacturers and suppliers. By engaging in such an integration effort, business partners wish to ...

  • Create value in the supply chain for mutual benefit
  • Apply practical solutions fitting the nature of their business
  • Share and synchronise data and processes
  • Co-manage the materials lifecycle through the definition of business rules
  • Apply industry standards
  • Push the concepts through the whole supply chain
It has been designed to meet the major electronic communication needs in the following business areas:
  • Procurement
  • Material forecasting
  • Inventory management
  • Demand & Supply
  • Despatch, Receipt & Consumption of Materials
  • Financial Settlement
By adopting this model manufacturers, suppliers and third parties will have a common language for the processes and data interchanges within their electronic integration relationships. To achieve this, the model contains very specific definitions of process terms, data exchanges and their content. Adopting the model allows companies to translate their internal processes and approaches into a common language that all other parties will be using.

The UIM structure creates a common set of definitions that all parties can use, whilst still allowing them to use their own internal definitions and processes, possibly with a requirement to translate internal information into the standard structure of the UIM.

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