On Linkedin, on of the most popular social network for professionals, a group has been created on "eBIZ-TCF, Harmonising e-Business in the textile/clothing and footwear industry". The group is open.
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The group aims to inform, discuss the obstacle and barriers that still are in place and the ways to overcome them and foster adoption towards industry, with a focus on European Small and Medium Enterprises.
The eBIZ-TCF project (www.ebiz-tcf.eu) is a 2-year cooperation project launched in January 2008 by the European Commission to boost e-business processes in the Textile/Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Industries.
In an increasingly complex and fast-changing trade/economic environment, the fashion and footwear industries requires fast time-to-market reaction.
Standards and agreed reference architectures allow suppliers, manufacturers and retailers to connect their businesses within the value chain.
Despite lot of initiatives in the fashion industry, standardisation and widespread adoption by users, were still lacking until now.
Euratex and CEC together with their national member federations, as well as the EU Commission, CEN/ISSS, GS1 and others have been involved in e-business standardisation issues for the fashion industry in recent years.
-B2B standard specifications have been developed within the framework of ESOs (European Standardisation Organisations): CEN/ISSS TexSpin and TexWeave for textile-clothing, CEN/ISSS FINEC for footwear and other related to initiatives and projects like eTexML, Visit, Moda-ML, EFNET2/3, CECMADESHOE, SHOENET; all these initiatives, with a wide involvement of industry associations, have prepared a background of analysis and specifications that is (almost) ready to be implemented by the industry thanks to eBIZ-TCF.