Public Review for OASIS Production Planning and Scheduling Specification

Members of the OASIS Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS) Technical
Committee have approved a Public Review Draft of the PPS (Production
Planning and Scheduling) specification. The review extends through
21-October-2007. The PPS Standard deals with problems in all
manufacturing companies who want to have a sophisticated information
system for production planning and scheduling. The PPS standard
provides XML schema and communication protocols for information exchange
among manufacturing application programs in the web-services environment.
The "Part 1: Core Elements" document especially focuses on information
model of core elements in the production planning and scheduling domain.
Since the elements have been designed without specific contexts in
planning and scheduling, they can be used in any specific type of
messages as a building block depending on the context of application
programs. The "Part 2: Transaction Messages" document especially focuses
on transaction messages that represent domain information in accordance
with the context of the communication, as well as transaction rules for
contexts such as pushing and pulling of the information required. The
"Part 3: Profile Specifications" document especially focuses on
profiles of application programs that may exchange the messages defined
in this standard. The profile shows capability of application programs
in terms of services for message exchange. The profile can be used for
definition of a minimum level of implementation of application programs
who are involved in a community of data exchange.