DB Schenker, founding member of the Open Logistics Foundation, leads the new Track & Trace Working Group. Marius Hilb, IoT Product Owner at DB Schenker and Working Group Lead Track & Trace, answers the most important questions. Track & Trace solutions are one of the classics in logistics management. Why is Track & Trace now on the agenda of the Open Logistics Foundation? Marius Hilb: The solutions that are used today have been developed by different IT companies. There is, therefore, not one standard on which they all work but many different ones. As a result, the solutions often do not correspond to the actual operational logistics process and are ultimately only used to a limited extent by the logistics players. With the new Track & Trace Working Group, we now want to harmonise these standards from within the logistics process – and with the right companies. We will publish our work in the Open Logistics Repository – a freely available development platform for cross-company collaboration. Companies that use the components can individualise them, but the basis should always remain the same. In this way, we are laying the foundations for de-facto standardisation and enabling market penetration. (....)