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

not for profit A not-for-profit or non-for-profit organization (NFPO) is a legal entity that does not distribute surplus funds to its members and is formed to fulfill specific objectives. While not-for-profit organizations and non-profit organizations (NP ...

membership association founded in 1999 with the mission to champion the development and adoption of international standards for quality, interoperable supply chain data. The Association states that it works through collaborative efforts among industry and government to enhance data & information accuracy and reduce costs associated with identifying and describing individuals, organizations, locations, goods, and services within business systems worldwide. It has membership tiers for companies and individuals. It provides training and certification relating to international standards for supply chain data. 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 eOTD is the acronym for the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary. The dictionary is a language-independent database of concepts with associated terms, definitions and images used to unambiguously describe individuals, organizations, locations, goods, ...

). These initiatives allowed the creation and exchange of unambiguous, language independent master data,

data Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted for ...

that identifies and describes individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules and regulations. The

is based on the Federal Cataloging System and the

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...

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

Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising the six U.S. armed services: the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, ...

and members of NATO and used today in over 50 countries. ECCMA is the project leader fo
ISO 22745
(Open technical dictionaries and their application to master data). It also leads projects for developing sections o

(Data quality) an

(Supply chain interoperability and integration). These standards ensure data quality, and facilitate the exchange of material and service master data. They support the interoperability and integration of supply chains. ECCMA is the

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

(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, '' ...

. ECCMA provides its members with ISO 8000 Digital Supply Chain Solutions: Standards for supply chain data

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ANSI

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