ECCMA is an international not-for-profit membership association that works to develop and advocate for industrial and supply chain data quality and interoperability through international consensus-based (ISO) standards. Our members are typically large corporations, government agencies, and technology providers, though we also have small and medium company, university, and individual professional members.

Part of our mission is to increase engagement with ISO standards by stakeholders around the world. Universities support this through teaching and research.

By introducing and deepening their students’ awareness of standards, a faculty can help students understand how different business areas use and are affected by standards. This better prepares them for the workforce where employers may require or benefit from standards use.

Professors, and sometimes their students, are often involved in standards’ development or implementation as they have the right skills and experience to conduct research on stakeholder needs and standards-based solutions to meet those needs.

If your faculty or curriculum plans involve or may benefit from wider and deeper engagement with standards, or industry and commercial initiatives around supply chain data quality and interoperability, we welcome a conversation with you!

ECCMA offers two free self-study programs that create a foundational understanding of the international standards that enable the digital supply chain.

1. • ISO 8000 Master Data Quality Manager (https://eccma.org/certifications/#mdqm)

1. • ISO 25500 Supply Chain Data Manager (https://eccma.org/certifications/#scdm)

They can be readily incorporated into your curriculum to provide a theoretical and practical learning opportunity for students. They help to increase awareness of international standards for data quality and interoperability, and offer potential to complement and add an extra learning dimension your existing supply chain, computer or data science, business, trade and economics, management, and international studies programs.

In practical terms, the minimum your university need do is to incorporate reference to these online programs into your teaching and assignment plans, or you could choose to integrate them further.

These are well-known programs in Industry and are good-to-go in a University study environment.

There are ECCMA Certified Professionals in 85+ countries worldwide.

Foundation-level self-study in Data Quality

Foundation-level self-study in Supply Chain Data Interoperability and Integration

ECCMA is actively engaged in a number of long-term research collaborations and may be able to contribute to your field of study. As specialists in industrial data, our senior team welcomes the opportunity to contribute to and participate in field studies, case studies and technical appraisals.