Draft Agendas for ARTS IXRetail and Data Model Committee Meetings

    3-5 October 2005

    Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA

    Located a short walk from Waterloo station.  Please use the Tower entrance on Belvedere Road (on the river side across from the London Eye) - click here for a map.

The principal objective of this meeting will be to update attendees from the UK and Europe on recent changes to the standards and to solicit their suggestions and recommendations to ensure ARTS standards match international requirements.  These meetings enable networking between committee members, implementers of ARTS standards and those wishing to learn more about their benefits and applicability for their companies.

We encourage guests to attend these meetings, particularly since this is a critical opportunity for ARTS to receive input from European companies.  Prospective members may attend one meeting before committing to join ARTS.

If you have not yet made hotel arrangements, our bloc at Jurys Clifton Ford closes September 16.   Rates are £130/night with continental breakfast or £135/night with full breakfast.  High speed internet is £10 for 24 hours.  Jurys is located at 47 Welbeck Street. Call +44 (0)20-7486 6600 and ask for the ARTS bloc. 

Monday October 3

AM all attendees

§         Review of minutes of previous IXRetail and Data Model committee meetings.

§         ARTS update on recent and upcoming activities.

§         Review of ARTS website and webboards.

§         Discussion of the value of a universal retail data dictionary.

Afternoon breakout sessions

Data Model:     Overview of the Data Model, identification of strengths and areas for improvement.

                        Proposed corrections to release 5.0

IXRetail:           Review of most popular IXRetail schemas available for conformance testing:

                          §     POSlog

        §     Customer

        §     Item

        §     Price

Tuesday October 4

Morning Breakout sessions

IXRetail:           Work team meetings

                          §     NEAR – Notification Events for Applications in Retail.

                          §     Warehouse Management

Data Model:     Identifying additions and enhancements to continue enterprise expansion.

Afternoon

IXRetail:           Work team meetings

                         §     NEAR

                         §     ProCon (formerly NAFEM – enhancement and expansion of REMC)

Data Model:     Continued discussion on potential enhancement to the Model in cooperation with Warehouse Management work team.

Wednesday October 5

All attendees, 9am – 3pm

Review discussions of previous days to ensure all are fully informed of future directions.