PAS 1025

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The PAS 1025 ( Publicly Available Specification ) describes an exchange format between an Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP system) such as SAP R / 3 and a corporate environmental information system (BUIS) such as Audit or Umberto in order to transfer environmentally relevant data between the two systems .

Problem and objective

BUIS have the task of providing operational environmental protection in a company with data and information. The information is collected from various sources, processed and specifically prepared for the user. One of these sources of information are the operational information systems (BIS), especially the ERP systems. When information is recorded in an ERP system, environmentally relevant data such as material, process and cost data are recorded and used in the operational context . In order to take an effective consideration in the area of ​​environmental protection and to be able to efficiently implement the results in the company, an integration of BUIS and BIS is required . The simplest variant for integrating two heterogeneous systems is the pure data exchange via interfaces . For example, environmentally relevant data could be obtained from a SAP R / 3 system, transferred to a BUIS and the results of the environmental analysis (e.g. of a production process through a material flow analysis) fed back into the R / 3 system. Since the perspective of the environmentally relevant data through ERP systems differs from that of the BUIS, the problem of the so-called "semantic gap" arises when transforming the data. This means that the information can vary considerably in terms of relevance, scope and complexity. In order to counter this problem, the PASSUS consortium from various institutes and companies joined forces and in 2003 defined an exchange format for environmentally relevant data and published the interface description under PAS 1025. This is intended to reduce the obstacles to data exchange between the two systems, concrete proposals for environmentally relevant data and provide a favorable structure for environmentally relevant data. An open interface standard is pursued as the overriding goal.

construction

The PAS 1025 is documented and displayed in an XML schema (XSD) according to the W3C standard. The exchange of data thus takes place via XML and thus offers an open structure, which is an advantage over proprietary solutions. The interface description only defines the semantic area of ​​the exchange and does not consider the transfer of data from one system to the other. This can be done via any medium (e.g. WebServices , RPC , CORBA ). The implementation should be carried out by the manufacturer of the respective BUIS or ERP system, as they are best internally familiar with the given structures of the software and know where the data (which are described in the PAS) are or where they are used . The environmentally relevant data to be exchanged is listed below:

  • Material master data
    • Material properties (e.g. global warming potential , volume, dimensions, density)
    • material costs
    • Material designations (translations, synonyms)
    • Material ingredients (parts lists, recipes)
    • Material groups
  • Production data
    • Flow materials
    • Work plans
    • Process hierarchies
    • Movement data
  • costs
    • Cost centers
    • Cost types
    • Currencies

consortium

  • Institute for Ergonomics and Technology Management (IAT) at the University of Stuttgart
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization (IAO) Stuttgart
  • TechniData AG
  • infor business solutions AG
  • Institute for Environmental Informatics (ifu) Hamburg GmbH

literature

  • C. Lang, U. Rey, V. Wohlgemuth, S. Genz, S. Pawlytsch: PAS 1025 - Exchange of environmentally relevant data between ERP systems and corporate environmental information systems ; Ref.No.PAS 1025: 2003-12, Beuth Verlag, 2003.