The Code Management Association S-DE.BER:3031657trading as the Electronic Code Management Association (ECCMA) is an international

not for profit A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

membership association founded in 1999 with mission to research, develop and promote better quality data for use in electronic commerce. The Association first developed the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) as a global commodity classification and went on to develop the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary ( eOTD) to allow the creation and exchange of unambiguous, language independent

master data Master data represents "data about the business entities that provide context for business transactions". The most commonly found categories of master data are parties (individuals and organisations, and their roles, such as customers, suppliers, ...

data In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpret ...

that identifies and describes individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules and regulations. The eOTD is based on the Federal Cataloging System and the

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

Codification System, the systems used to manage the world’s largest shared inventory developed by the

Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to: Current departments of defence * Department of Defence (Australia) * Department of National Defence (Canada) * Department of Defence (Ireland) * Department of National Defense (Philippin ...

and members of NATO and used today in over 50 countries. ECCMA is the project leader for ISO 22745 (Open technical dictionaries and their application to master data) and ISO 8000 (Data quality). ECCMA is the

American National Standards Institute The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organ ...

(ANSI) accredited administrator of the US technical advisory group (US TAG) to ISO Technical Committee 184 Sub Committee 4 (ISO TC 184/SC 4), a leading ISO technical committee responsible for the development and maintenance of international standards for industrial data. ECCMA is a Type A Liaison organization to

ISO TC 184/SC 4 ISO/TC 184/SC 4 is an international standards organization responsible for industrial data. ISO/TC 184/SC 4 develops and maintains ISO standards that describe and manage industrial product data throughout the life of the product. ISO/TC 184/SC 4, ' ...

.ISO, "TC 184/SC 4, Industrial data"
/ref> ECCMA provides its members with ISO 8000 Digital Supply Chain Solutions: ECCMA provides its members with ISO 8000 Digital Supply Chain Solutions: * Data governance and data quality training, ISO 8000 certification, and consulting * Back office Master Data Quality Control (MDQC) * On-line applications: ** ECCMA Data Dictionary Manager (eDDM) ** ECCMA Smart Catalog Builder (eSCB) ** ECCMA Master Data Validator (eMDV) * APIs: ** eOTD (dictionary) ** eDRR (cataloging templates) ** ePNS (manufacturer short names) ** eSOM (shared organization master containing 100+ thousand verified records) ** eSMM (shared material master containing 6+ million records) * Research: ** Multilingual data dictionaries, taxonomies, classifications, cataloging templates ** Supplier and customer legal name verification, including duplicate identification ** Material master research and verification, including duplicate identification Standards for supply chain data

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