External Interfaces

Overview

List of Potential External Interfaces

The main business function of a DCM application is to facilitate the exchange of demand and capacity information. In order to do this this a DCM must directly or indirectly interface with an EDC, systems holding base data relating to materials and companies as well as systems holding data relating to production planning.

#	Interface	Data	Function	Comment
1	Business Partner Database	Name, Address, City, Postal Code, BPNL, BPNS, BPNA, ...	Provide a connect between the technical BPN* and human readable data.	Combines supplier and customer database
2	Supplier Database	Name, Address, City, Postal Code, BPNL, BPNS, BPNA, ...	Provide a connect between the technical BPN* and human readable data.	Overlaps with business partner database
3	Customer Database	Name, Address, City, Postal Code, BPNL, BPNS, BPNA, ...	Provide a connect between the technical BPN* and human readable data.	Overlaps with business partner database
4	EDC data plane	Payloads (WeekBasedMaterialDemand, WeekBasedCapacityGroup, IdBasedREquestForUpdate, IdBasedComment, ...)	Gateway for exchanging data with the dataspace	Needs to be connected the API endpoints in order to receive payloads
5	EDC control plane	Assets, Policies, Contract Definitions	Offer API endpoints as Assets, Negotiate data exchange contracts,	Required for data exchange within the Catena-X dataspace
6	EDC Discovery Service	Connector Endpoint	Resolves BPNL into connector endpoints	Interface could be integrated into the supplier, customer or business partner database
7	Product Data Management System	Material Number, Material Description, Bill of Material,	Provides the DCM with data relating to materials, their structure and their demands / capacities	Overlaps with production planning system
8	Production Planning System	Unit of Measure, Material Number, Material Description, Capacity, Demand, ...	Provides the DCM with data relating to materials, their structure and their demands / capacities	Overlaps with product data management system
9	Wallet	Membership-Credential, Data Exchange Governance Credential, BPNL Credential, ...	Identify available credentials	EDC should interface with the wallet. For the DCM-App itself it is more or less just a bonus
10	Golden Record Service	BPNL, BPNS, BPNA and other Business Partner Base Data	Resolve your own Business Partner Base Data into BPNL, BPNS and BPNA used within the Catena-X Dataspace.	Interface could be integrated into the supplier, customer or business partner database
11	IAM Service	User-ID, Roles, Name, ...	Authenticate Users

EDC

Connector KIT

Wallet

Managed Identity Wallet

Golden Record Service

Business Partner KIT

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