XKatalog

Background

Currently, Public E-Procurement faces a variety of issues, including an unregulated transition between pre- and post-award phases and a lack of structured and reusable procurement data. For this purpose, the XKatalog is being developed as a procurement standard in Germany. In short, the standard is intended to enable suppliers to catalogue their product information in an XML-based data standard. This catalogued data can subsequently be carried over to further procurement documents such as the electronic order (XBestellung) and electronic invoice (XRechnung).

Hence, the profiling of the XKatalog as an electronic catalogue standard is essential in order to provide the basis for a holistic data transformation from the specification of a procurement requirement through to invoice receipt. As such, E-Procurement standards of both the pre-award and post-award phases

The standard is very much informed about the ongoing development of EN17015 on electronic catalogues as well as the Peppol BIS Catalogue.

Key Requirements

• Bridging the pre-award and post-award worlds of Public E-Procurement
• Dependence on ongoing EN17015 and Peppol BIS Catalogue (moving targets)
• Upstream/Downstream development

SeMoX as a key enabler for XKatalog

TODO: The crucial role of SeMoX in overcoming barriers and realizing key requirements.