xCBL "is the pre-eminent XML component library for business-to-business e-commerce"
xCBL's intra- and inter-company reuse of information in these documents reduces integration and processing costs in the "end-to-end" business processes for global trading
EXAMPLE: Procurement = catalog → purchase order → shipping notice → invoice → payment → goods receipt etc...
Several dozen xCBL document types are arranged hierarchically in "Functional areas"
Order Management
Pre-Order Management
Financial
Materials Management
Message Management
Application Integration
Catalog
Statistics and Forecasting