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Letter to the Editor
Thursday November 29
New CIECA BMS Standards Released
The Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA) has completed and published its eighth BMS Standards Release, 2007R2.“Implementing the BMS standards within collision repair facilities results in more efficiencies, consistencies, cost savings, and vehicle owner satisfaction - saving the industry time, effort, money, and customers,” said Fred Iantorno, CIECA’s Executive Director.
The new BMS release includes messages for transactions relative to Vehicle Damage, Glass, Rental, Salvage assignments, Estimates, Dispositions, Attachments (images), Parts and Materials data exchange, Repair Status, Authorizations, Invoicing Statements, Locations, and Subrogation.
“We are seeing accelerated traction for these new standards within the Insurance segment. However, implementation within the Repairer segment is lagging,” said Iantorno. “Adoption in the repair shop remains a challenge and is absolutely critical to the collision repair industry.”
Within repair facilities, CIECA’s Estimating to Management System (EMS) Standard is the most widely used standard in the industry. Yet, the EMS is actually a Pre “Turn-of-the-Century” standard. Today’s BMS standards address new requirements and enhanced value propositions for data exchange within the industry. Today’s environment requires more data than is contained within the widely utilized EMS standard. This causes repairers to manually enter data (not contained within the EMS) into systems such as status reporting, car rental, auto glass, and part procurement systems.
“Manual data entry processes continue to cost-burden businesses across the industry – repairers in particular,” said Iantorno.
CIECA publishes and provides two BMS releases annually. New messages are added and existing messages are enhanced as a direct result of the changing needs of the industry. CIECA also publishes and provides a robust Road Map of its BMS messages program, available at www.cieca.com.
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