VocabUN/CEFACT Web Vocabulary (Vocab)
The Vocab is a linked-data vocabulary for the international supply chain: the shared classes, properties and code lists spanning seven domains: trade, transport, finance, regulatory, production, conformity and a shared core.
To understand the ontology, its architecture, how to use it and how to contribute, visit the Vocab documentation site.
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Classes (92)
| Class | Domain | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Account | finance | A financial account that is the source or destination of payments. |
| Address | core | A postal/physical address of a party or location. |
| Aircraft | transport | An air transport means (adds e.g. tail number, flight-specific properties). |
| AllowanceCharge | trade | An allowance (deduction) or charge (addition) affecting a trade price or settlement. |
| Assessment | conformity | A specific assessment activity carried out to demonstrate, or to contribute towards a demonstration, that specified requirements are fulfilled. The object of conformity assessment is identified by the object type, currently product, facility or organisation. |
| Attestation | conformity | A statement of the outcome of one or more related conformity assessment activities conducted for the purpose of demonstrating that specified requirements are fulfilled. It has a broader intent than the ISO/IEC 17000 term attestation, which refers to the issuance of statements of conformity. |
| AuthorityEndorsement | conformity | The authority-derived recognition under which a conformity attestation is issued, for example an accreditation, a government mandate, or a peer recognition. Renames the former Endorsement, which the scheme no longer references, so its sole use is now the attestation's authorisation. |
| Booking | transport | A transaction recording the reservation of transport services for a consignment. |
| CargoDetails | regulatory | The cargo-item lines within a cargo report. |
| Characteristics | conformity | A declaration of conformance with one or more criteria from a specific scheme. |
| Claim | production | A performance claim about a product, facility or organisation, made against a defined criterion. |
| ConformityProfile | conformity | A versioned description of a conformity scheme, or subset of a conformity scheme, in terms of broad scheme activity elements, without including the detailed assessment criteria. A conformity profile may be as broad as differentiating environmental from safety assessment streams, or as granular as representing specific standards. |
| Consignment | transport | A separately identifiable collection of consignment items moved from one consignor to one consignee under one transport contract. |
| ConsignmentItem | transport | A quantity of goods grouped by tariff code/packaging for transport — the lowest level within a consignment. |
| ContactPoint | core | An addressable channel for communicating with a party (telephone, email, web, messaging), with its number or URI and use type. |
| Criterion | conformity | A specific rule within a standard or regulation (e.g. a carbon-intensity calculation rule). |
| DangerousGoods | transport | Goods which may contain a substance which poses risks to people and/or the environment during transportation which is regulated by dangerous goods regulations. |
| DeclarationDetails | regulatory | The customs item lines within a declaration (one tariff code each). Maps to WCO GoodsItem. |
| DeliveryTerms | trade | Conditions agreed between the parties with regard to the delivery of goods (e.g. an Incoterms rule and its named place). |
| Dimension | core | Overall length, width, height, weight and volume of an item. |
| DutyTaxFee | regulatory | A customs duty, tax or fee assessed on a declared goods item. |
| Emission | production | A calculation of the pollution (including noise, heat, and radiation etc.) discharged into the environment by a residential, commercial, or industrial facility or by a means of transport, such as a vessel, aircraft or truck. |
| Event | core | A punctual occurrence at a point in time: the supertype of the domain-specific events (production make/move/modify, transport arrive/depart/load/discharge). It carries the metadata common to all events — time, location, responsible party, subject and type — while domain-specific detail lives on its subclasses. An event is also how a change in its subject entity's lifecycle state is recorded. |
| Facility | core | The physical site (e.g. farm or factory) where a product or materials are produced, handled or stored. |
| FinanceAgreement | finance | A contract under which a financial institution funds a trade. |
| ForecastTerms | trade | A set of terms and conditions by which a supply chain forecast has been or will be made. |
| GeoCoordinates | core | A geographic point defined by latitude and longitude (WGS 84). |
| GovernmentRegistration | regulatory | The recording of items or details for a governmental purpose. |
| Identifier | core | A single identifier issued for an entity within a scheme: the registered value plus the issuing scheme, with an optional label. |
| IdentifierScheme | core | An identifier registration scheme for products, facilities, or organisations. |
| Image | core | A binary image encoded as base64 text with its media type. |
| Insurance | finance | Cover protecting cargo/trade value against loss. |
| IOTDevice | production | An IOT (Internet of Things) piece of mechanical or electronic equipment which can collect, report and autonomously transmit digital data. |
| Licence | regulatory | A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or to conduct a trade. |
| LifecycleEvent | production | An event describing a step in a product's lifecycle (make, move, modify); the supertype of MakeEvent, MoveEvent and ModifyEvent. It specialises the core Event, inheriting the common event metadata (eventTime, eventLocation, responsibleParty, eventClassifier, eventSubject, eventTypeCode). Generic event semantics (aggregation, transformation, EPCIS bizStep/disposition) are out of scope — use GS1 EPCIS where those are needed. |
| Link | core | A URL link plus associated metadata (name, type, hash). |
| Location | core | A place — address and/or geo-location of a point, area or boundary. |
| MakeEvent | production | Transformation (manufacture/production) of input products into output products. |
| Marking | transport | An inscription, stamp or label on packaging, such as to indicate date, ownership, quality, manufacture or origin. |
| Material | production | Details about the origin or source of a material that a product is made from. |
| MaterialUsage | production | A record of a material a facility consumes and the period over which it does so. An identity-less value object. |
| Measure | core | A numeric value together with its unit of measure. |
| ModifyEvent | production | Intervention (e.g. repair) on a product without changing its identity. |
| MonetaryAmount | core | A monetary value together with its currency. |
| MoveEvent | production | Transfer (shipment) of products from one facility to another. |
| Organisation | core | An organisational party. |
| Party | core | An actor in the supply chain. Roles (buyer, seller, carrier, importer, …) are properties whose range is Party, not subclasses. |
| PartyRole | core | A party in the role it plays relative to a referencing entity (party + role, optionally on-behalf-of). An identity-less value object, not a party-register entry. |
| Payment | finance | A transfer of funds settling a trade obligation. |
| PaymentMeans | finance | The means by which a payment will be or has been made for trade settlement purposes. |
| PaymentTerms | trade | The terms of payment for a trade (due date, discount and penalty terms). |
| Performance | conformity | A claimed, assessed or required performance level, defined by a measure and/or a score against a metric. |
| Period | core | A period of time (e.g. a month, quarter or year). |
| Person | core | An individual party. |
| ProcessDeclaration | conformity | A declaration covering one process area, or one distinct scope within a process area, against applicable international standards. |
| Product | production | Detailed information regarding a product, including its identity, provenance and characteristics. |
| ProductBatch | production | A group of products considered or dealt with together. |
| ProductionProcess | production | A naturally occurring or designed sequence of operations or events in order to produce something. |
| ProductPackage | production | Details of product packaging. Distinct from TransportPackage (transport-domain wrapping). |
| RegisteredIdentity | core | The registration of a party's identity in an official register (the subject of a Digital Identity Anchor). |
| Regulation | regulatory | The rule under which import/export is permitted or controlled. Vocab-distinctive: WCO references procedures, not the rule itself. |
| RegulatoryProcedure | regulatory | A customs/regulatory procedure applied to the clearance of a consignment (import, export, transit), under a regulation. |
| Scheme | conformity | The set of rules and procedures that describes the objects of conformity assessment, identifies the specified requirements and provides the methodology for performing conformity assessment (intended to align with ISO/IEC 17000:2020 Clause 4.9). Since conformity assessment schemes, programs and systems are not differentiated here, the term may encompass any of these. |
| SchemeDeclaration | conformity | A first-party statement by a scheme owner describing the governance, development and delivery arrangements of its conformity scheme, made with reference to applicable international standards. Its object is the scheme itself, not an assessed product, facility or organisation. |
| Score | conformity | A single score (code, definition, rank) within a scoring framework. |
| ScoringFramework | conformity | A scoring framework used for performance-level assessments against a criterion. |
| Seal | transport | A security seal affixed to transport equipment. |
| SensorData | production | A sensor data recording associated with a lifecycle event. |
| Service | transport | A service associated with a transport movement. |
| ServiceCharge | transport | A charge made for a logistics related service. |
| Shipment | trade | An identifiable collection of trade items transported together from seller (consignor) to buyer (consignee). |
| ShipmentPackage | trade | The packaging grouping trade items within a shipment. |
| ShippingMarks | transport | Physical markings or labels on individual packages or transport units for logistics purposes. |
| Standard | conformity | A published specification (e.g. ISO 14000) against which conformity is assessed. |
| SupplyChainInventory | trade | Supply chain goods and materials held in stock. |
| SupplyPlan | trade | Specification of the delivery quantities and date/time values in a supply schedule. |
| TradeAgreement | trade | The sales contract by which a buyer and seller agree the supply of goods or services. |
| TradeDocument | core | A thin anchor for an exchanged business document: a grouping of domain concepts identified by a documentType code. Its structure is defined in downstream schemas, not in this vocabulary. |
| TradeItem | trade | The lowest level of commercial information in a trade — a product/service line with code, quantity and unit price. |
| TradePrice | trade | A sum of money for which something is or may be bought or sold for trade purposes. |
| TradeSettlement | trade | The financial settlement terms and totals of a trade agreement. |
| TradeTax | trade | A tax applied to a trade agreement or trade item. |
| TransportCall | transport | An ordered stop of a transport means along a movement (arrive/load/unload/depart), with a sequence number and location. |
| TransportEquipment | transport | Equipment used to hold, protect or secure cargo (container, ULD, trailer). |
| TransportEvent | transport | A punctual transport occurrence at a transport call — arrival, departure, loading or discharge — planned, estimated or actual. It specialises the core Event: time, classifier, responsible party, subject and type come from Event, while atCall links it to the stop in the movement's itinerary where it occurs. Scheduled and actual times are both recorded as events (via eventClassifier), so the call itself carries no time. |
| TransportLeg | transport | The span between two consecutive transport calls; the segment a consignment is assigned to. |
| TransportMeans | transport | The device conveying goods. |
| TransportMovement | transport | The physical carriage of goods for transport purposes — a voyage, flight, trip or journey. |
| TransportPackage | transport | A self-contained wrapping or container holding goods for transport (box, barrel, pallet). |
| TransportRoute | transport | A planned route (itinerary and schedule) over which transport movements are performed. |
| Truck | transport | A road transport means (adds e.g. gross vehicle mass, registration). |
| Vessel | transport | A waterborne transport means (adds e.g. draft, IMO number). |