The tools include Guidance for Addressing Cybersecurity for chemical companies and Business Process Guidelines (BPGs) that support the Chem eStandards for supply chain collaboration and order-to-cash electronic business transactions.
The Chemical Industry Data Exchange’s (CIDX) Guidance for Addressing Cybersecurity includes a complete Cybersecurity Management Systems (CSMS), which is designed to educate and inform member companies, customers and the public about cybersecurity in the chemical sector.
The company’s BPGs are designed to support CIDX’s Chem eStandards, a uniform set of standards of data exchange developed specifically for the buying, selling and delivery of chemicals. The first two to be announced are Order-to-Cash process and Supply Chain Collaboration process.
Included in the BPG documentation are basic overviews of each process and tactical guidance on how to use Chem eStandards messages in the business context, which is intended to help new trading partners more quickly identify the common processes, allowing them to focus more time and energy on adjusting for the exceptions.
Bob Mick, ARC Advisory analyst, said: The CIDX order processing and supply management process guidelines demonstrate the value that CIDX can deliver to the chemical industry: These processes not only reduce the cost of working out the business-to-business orchestration, but they also establish a basis for starting down a path toward process standardization in the future.
