The European Standards Organization CEN has published the CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) 16667, Reference Architecture 2.0 for eBusiness harmonisation in Textile/Clothing and Footwear sectors.  It offers a Guideline of the updated Reference Architecture (RA) for the eBusiness harmonisation in the Textile Clothing and Footwear sectors as it results from the activities of the CEN Workshop “eBusiness in the textile, clothing and footwear sectors (WS eBIZ)”.

The eBIZ architecture aims to enable interoperability between existing systems and organisations. Achieving it, would lower the threshold for starting eBusiness both for large enterprises and for medium and small actors in the supply chain and would also encourage technology suppliers to provide better support and services for eBusiness. It can be used as reference both for new eBusiness implementations and by existing users needing to modify their systems or to achieve interoperability with others.

The CWA references various ebXML components including ebBP, CPPA, ebMS 3.0 and AS4.