FAQ: About RosettaNet

What is RosettaNet
A consortium of more than 600 of the world's leading Electronic Components (EC), Information Technology (IT), Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) and Solution Provider (SP) companies, RosettaNet is a self-funded, non-profit organization dedicated to creating, implementing and promoting open e-business standards. These standards form a common e-business language, aligning processes between trading partners on a global basis.

What is RosettaNet's Mission?
RosettaNet drives collaborative development and rapid deployment of Internet-based business standards, creating a common language and open e-business processes that provide measurable benefits and are vital to the evolution of the global, high-technology trading network.

Why are global e-business standards necessary?
Standardized e-business processes are critically important to the high technology marketplace. Companies that use propriety connections and with only a small number of trading partners are at a significant disadvantage in today's highly competitive yet collaborative business environment. The Internet offers a way for standard business processes to be exchanged, not just with a small number of intimate trading partners, but with a potentially unlimited global trading community. Standardized e-business processes increases companies' efficiency and, thus, their bottom line

FAQ: About RosettaNet Standards - PIPs

What is a PIP?
PIP stands for Partner Interface Process. It depicts the activities, decisions and interactions that fulfill a business transaction between two partners in a supply chain.

How is a PIP classified by?
A PIP is classified by clusters and segments. For example Cluster 3: Order Management have 4 segments. 3A:Quote and Order Entry, 3B:Transportation and Distribution, 3C:Returns and Finance and 3D:Product Configuration. 3B18 means the PIP is in Cluster 3, Segment B and 18 is the PIP number itself.

How do I know if the specific PIP is designed for two way communications or one way?
Go to http://www.rosettanet.org/pipdirectory. Select the PIP that you want and look at the Business Process Model chart. You can see the flow to determine whether it is one way or two way PIP.

What will happen if the PIPs transmitted failed to reach the trading partner in time?
Each receiver has 2 hours (or depending on the message control exchange) to response to a PIP.If the 2 hours passed and no response, the sender will resend the PIP again. (3 Retries). If it still fails there will be a Notification of Failure.

How secure is the PIP transmitted?
Each PIP uses encryption and digital certificates to ensure that transmission is secure.

FAQ: About RosettaNet Standards - RNIF

What is RNIF?
RNIF stands for Rosettanet Implementation Framework. It is used to pack, route and transfer PIP messages and business signals.

What is the major difference between RNIF 1.1 and RNIF 2.0?
RNIF 2.0 supports the ASP model and RNIF 1.0 does not.